From "The 15 Children of John W. Ketterman" By Romney J. Ketterman and Barbara Ketterman Pendleton 2008. Used by permission of Barbara Pendleton.
John Robert Ketterman was born April 4, 1900, the fourth child and first son born to John W. Ketterman and Hazel Ketterman. His first name came from his father, and his middle name was in honor of Robert Ketterman, his fahter's brother.
John was the tallest of the Ketterman brothers--probably at least 6'8" or 6'9"--but his mother called him "Johnny Boy." He apparently quit school in his teenage yeas and worked as a carpenter with his father.
But World War I was raging as John came of age and he entered the service November 10, 1918. Peace was declared one day later, and John was discharged November 16, 1918. For a time John worked at the McNally Pittsburg Manufacturing Company.
At some point John married a girl named Katheryn and the two of them had a daughter, Betty Jane. But by 1929 the couple had divorced, with Kathryn remarrying Leonard DeHart and moving to Oklahoma. Their daughter Betty, only about five years old, moved in with her paternal grandparents (John W. and Hazel Ketterman).
About this time John met and married a young woman named Marguerite Hicks of Kansas City, MO. Exactly who Marguerite was is up to question. The only Marguerite Hicks in the 1930 Kansas City census was a 32-year-old woman with a checkered past, including two previous relationships (which may or may not have resulted in marriage) and a seven-year-old son. The Marguerite Hicks on the marriage license listed herself as age 22 and residing at 2921 Troost. Whatever the situation, John and Marguerite married June 14, 1930 in Kansas City, MO. the marriage appears to have been very brief.
John stayed on in the Kansas City area, where he lived at the Frederick Hotel and found work as a machinist with the Wheatley Brothers Machine Company. At least once John splurged on a photograph of himself overlooking the Country Club Plaza. He inscribed the picture, "My mother. Your Johnny Boy." and sent it off. His mother cherished that photo for the rest of her life.
Because on Saturday, December 14, 1935, John stepped off a streetcar at 42nd and Troost and was hit by a car. He was rushed to General Hospital, where family stories say doctors wanted to amputate his legs and he refused to grant permission. He died the next day: the death certificate listed several internal injuries as the cause of death...
(Marguerite Hicks lived only 3 blocks from the place where he was hit by a car.)
John's funeral was on his daughter Betty's birthday, December 18 1935. After services at the First Baptist Church of Pittsburg, he was buried in the Ketterman family plot at the Highland Park Cemetery."...
John Robert Ketterman was born April 4, 1900, the fourth child and first son born to John W. Ketterman and Hazel Ketterman. His first name came from his father, and his middle name was in honor of Robert Ketterman, his fahter's brother.
John was the tallest of the Ketterman brothers--probably at least 6'8" or 6'9"--but his mother called him "Johnny Boy." He apparently quit school in his teenage yeas and worked as a carpenter with his father.
But World War I was raging as John came of age and he entered the service November 10, 1918. Peace was declared one day later, and John was discharged November 16, 1918. For a time John worked at the McNally Pittsburg Manufacturing Company.
At some point John married a girl named Katheryn and the two of them had a daughter, Betty Jane. But by 1929 the couple had divorced, with Kathryn remarrying Leonard DeHart and moving to Oklahoma. Their daughter Betty, only about five years old, moved in with her paternal grandparents (John W. and Hazel Ketterman).
About this time John met and married a young woman named Marguerite Hicks of Kansas City, MO. Exactly who Marguerite was is up to question. The only Marguerite Hicks in the 1930 Kansas City census was a 32-year-old woman with a checkered past, including two previous relationships (which may or may not have resulted in marriage) and a seven-year-old son. The Marguerite Hicks on the marriage license listed herself as age 22 and residing at 2921 Troost. Whatever the situation, John and Marguerite married June 14, 1930 in Kansas City, MO. the marriage appears to have been very brief.
John stayed on in the Kansas City area, where he lived at the Frederick Hotel and found work as a machinist with the Wheatley Brothers Machine Company. At least once John splurged on a photograph of himself overlooking the Country Club Plaza. He inscribed the picture, "My mother. Your Johnny Boy." and sent it off. His mother cherished that photo for the rest of her life.
Because on Saturday, December 14, 1935, John stepped off a streetcar at 42nd and Troost and was hit by a car. He was rushed to General Hospital, where family stories say doctors wanted to amputate his legs and he refused to grant permission. He died the next day: the death certificate listed several internal injuries as the cause of death...
(Marguerite Hicks lived only 3 blocks from the place where he was hit by a car.)
John's funeral was on his daughter Betty's birthday, December 18 1935. After services at the First Baptist Church of Pittsburg, he was buried in the Ketterman family plot at the Highland Park Cemetery."...
From "The 15 Children of John W. Ketterman" By Romney J. Ketterman and Barbara Ketterman Pendleton 2008. Used by permission of Barbara Pendleton.
John Robert Ketterman was born April 4, 1900, the fourth child and first son born to John W. Ketterman and Hazel Ketterman. His first name came from his father, and his middle name was in honor of Robert Ketterman, his fahter's brother.
John was the tallest of the Ketterman brothers--probably at least 6'8" or 6'9"--but his mother called him "Johnny Boy." He apparently quit school in his teenage yeas and worked as a carpenter with his father.
But World War I was raging as John came of age and he entered the service November 10, 1918. Peace was declared one day later, and John was discharged November 16, 1918. For a time John worked at the McNally Pittsburg Manufacturing Company.
At some point John married a girl named Katheryn and the two of them had a daughter, Betty Jane. But by 1929 the couple had divorced, with Kathryn remarrying Leonard DeHart and moving to Oklahoma. Their daughter Betty, only about five years old, moved in with her paternal grandparents (John W. and Hazel Ketterman).
About this time John met and married a young woman named Marguerite Hicks of Kansas City, MO. Exactly who Marguerite was is up to question. The only Marguerite Hicks in the 1930 Kansas City census was a 32-year-old woman with a checkered past, including two previous relationships (which may or may not have resulted in marriage) and a seven-year-old son. The Marguerite Hicks on the marriage license listed herself as age 22 and residing at 2921 Troost. Whatever the situation, John and Marguerite married June 14, 1930 in Kansas City, MO. the marriage appears to have been very brief.
John stayed on in the Kansas City area, where he lived at the Frederick Hotel and found work as a machinist with the Wheatley Brothers Machine Company. At least once John splurged on a photograph of himself overlooking the Country Club Plaza. He inscribed the picture, "My mother. Your Johnny Boy." and sent it off. His mother cherished that photo for the rest of her life.
Because on Saturday, December 14, 1935, John stepped off a streetcar at 42nd and Troost and was hit by a car. He was rushed to General Hospital, where family stories say doctors wanted to amputate his legs and he refused to grant permission. He died the next day: the death certificate listed several internal injuries as the cause of death...
(Marguerite Hicks lived only 3 blocks from the place where he was hit by a car.)
John's funeral was on his daughter Betty's birthday, December 18 1935. After services at the First Baptist Church of Pittsburg, he was buried in the Ketterman family plot at the Highland Park Cemetery."...
John Robert Ketterman was born April 4, 1900, the fourth child and first son born to John W. Ketterman and Hazel Ketterman. His first name came from his father, and his middle name was in honor of Robert Ketterman, his fahter's brother.
John was the tallest of the Ketterman brothers--probably at least 6'8" or 6'9"--but his mother called him "Johnny Boy." He apparently quit school in his teenage yeas and worked as a carpenter with his father.
But World War I was raging as John came of age and he entered the service November 10, 1918. Peace was declared one day later, and John was discharged November 16, 1918. For a time John worked at the McNally Pittsburg Manufacturing Company.
At some point John married a girl named Katheryn and the two of them had a daughter, Betty Jane. But by 1929 the couple had divorced, with Kathryn remarrying Leonard DeHart and moving to Oklahoma. Their daughter Betty, only about five years old, moved in with her paternal grandparents (John W. and Hazel Ketterman).
About this time John met and married a young woman named Marguerite Hicks of Kansas City, MO. Exactly who Marguerite was is up to question. The only Marguerite Hicks in the 1930 Kansas City census was a 32-year-old woman with a checkered past, including two previous relationships (which may or may not have resulted in marriage) and a seven-year-old son. The Marguerite Hicks on the marriage license listed herself as age 22 and residing at 2921 Troost. Whatever the situation, John and Marguerite married June 14, 1930 in Kansas City, MO. the marriage appears to have been very brief.
John stayed on in the Kansas City area, where he lived at the Frederick Hotel and found work as a machinist with the Wheatley Brothers Machine Company. At least once John splurged on a photograph of himself overlooking the Country Club Plaza. He inscribed the picture, "My mother. Your Johnny Boy." and sent it off. His mother cherished that photo for the rest of her life.
Because on Saturday, December 14, 1935, John stepped off a streetcar at 42nd and Troost and was hit by a car. He was rushed to General Hospital, where family stories say doctors wanted to amputate his legs and he refused to grant permission. He died the next day: the death certificate listed several internal injuries as the cause of death...
(Marguerite Hicks lived only 3 blocks from the place where he was hit by a car.)
John's funeral was on his daughter Betty's birthday, December 18 1935. After services at the First Baptist Church of Pittsburg, he was buried in the Ketterman family plot at the Highland Park Cemetery."...
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