Julia A. Wiebelhaus was born on 6 March 1908 at Nebraska. She was the daughter of Fred Wiebelhaus and Theresa Uhing. Julia A. Wiebelhaus married Maurice Ketter Sr. on 12 August 1930. Julia A. Wiebelhaus died on 8 February 2002 at age 93 at Park View Haven Nursing Home. Coleridge.
Julie was born March 6, 1908, to Frederick and Theresa (Uhling) Wiebelhaus in Bow Valley. She married Maurice Ketter Sr. on Aug 12,1930, in Bow Valley. He died May 3, 1984 at the age of 75.
She grew up in the Hartington and Bow Valley area and attended Tip Top School and Mount Marty High School. After her marriage they farmed in the Wynot area until moving to California and lived there during WWII. She did laundry for an army battalion during that time. After the war they moved back to Nebraska buying their farm place north of Wynot. In 1960 they moved into Wynot. She had been a resident of Park View Haven Nursing Home in Coleridge since 1997. She was the head cook at the Wynot Public School Lunch Program for man years.
She was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, the Altar Society, Christian Mothers and the Wynot American Legion Auxiliary Post #31.
Survivors include six children and spouses: Lucy Holdorf, Yankton, S.D; Norma and Glen Foster, Newcastle; Doral and Don Schroeder, Wynot; Maurice and Nadene Ketter Jr., Wynot; Linda and Milo Stodola, Fremont; Stanley Ketter, Wynot; three sisters; Agatha Kleinschmit, Fordyce; Delores Hildahl, Sioux City, Ia; Rita Holcomb, Sioux City, Iowa; one brother and his wife, Dan and Mary Wiebelhaus, Fordyce; 25 grandchildren; 49 great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; one son, Ronald, one daughter, Sandra Ketter; two brothers; four sisters and two grandchildren.