Householter, Kathryn Marie Zehr (1911-2002)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2002 Aug 19 p. 11

Birth date: 1911 Aug 2

text of obituary:

KATHRYN HOUSEHOLTER

Kathryn Marie Householter, 90, of Snyder Village in Metamora, Ill., and formerly of Eureka, died July 28, 2002, at Proctor Hospital in Peoria. She was born Aug. 2, 1911, to Amos and Pearl Dunn Zehr in Deer Creek.

She married Raymond DeBolt Householter on Feb. 5, 1933, in Eureka. He died April 19, 1986, in Washington.

She owned Country Gardens Nursery. She was a member of the Illinois Antique Association and a member of New Castle Bible Church in Mackinaw.

Survivors include three daughters, Ruth Ulrich and her husband, Byron, of Eureka, Pearl Bassett and her husband, Paul, of Overland Park, Kan., and Karen Tilly and her husband, Greg, of Cherry Valley; a son, David and his wife, Alice Jo, of Chiefland, Fla.; two brothers, Paul Zehr of Metamora and Eugene Zehr of Morton; two sisters, Agnes Zehr of Hopedale and Irene Adams of Goodfield; 10 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond; three sisters and a stepgrandson.

Services were held at New Castle Bible Church. Burial was in Hillcrest Memory Gardens in rural Morton.