Oren Jacob Ketchum, Son of Jesse "Jack" Oren Ketchum and Elmay Snyder Campbell Ketchum Rittenhouse . Named for his father, Jesse Oren Ketchum , and his maternal grandfather, Jacob Van Buren Snyder .
Husband of Margaret Harriet Thompson . Oren taught others by the example of his life. He loved children and taught that hard work gave rewards. When he married Margaret, he took into his home and into his heart, her two children from previous relationships, Jack Thompson and Mary Jane Thompson. When Mary Jane died, her death record & tombstone reflects his name.
Together Oren and Margaret had eight more children. Donna , Linda , Nancy (Betty) , William (Bill) , Howard , Caroline (Carolyn) , Patsy and Frederick (Freddie) . A loving and patient husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend, Grandpa was a humble man.
Following his death, he was memorialized by the family doctor, Peter Northouse in a wonderfully written essay honoring my Grandfather's life. The essay is as follows:
P.B. Northouse M.D.
626 Medical Arts Bldg.
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49502
April 6, 1970
It is quite proper that remarks be made when a man departs this life; by those who knew him in intimate ways. Such remarks should be confined and limited to a review of and comment on the man's stature in the community. Oren's stature was measured by his honesty, his integrity, his concern for his family and others first, and with a devotion that was unbounded.
There was no show, no sham and no bluff. He didn't care for those things that measure status; because you know, he was too busy trying to keep the home fires burning and that meant working to pay for coal and wood. It was always warm in his home, when the doctor came for a birth, for illness or for death. Oren worked still harder to supply the onions that were used to prepare a poultice for the chest of the child seriously sick with pneumonia. Oren and the doctor treated without antibiotics, but God cured and healed and blessed that home.
Oren's children learned from example to love, honor and obey. That heritage they should and are passing on to the many grandchildren that they may help provide a safe and sane Michigan and one where God is not dead.
Oren's family doctor and friend of the last 30 years can vouch for the above and will also miss him and not just because he will not be able to bum anymore cigarettes from Oren. Let's pray that we may follow those examples.
Dr. Pete. (Northouse.)
Many years after my grandfather's passing, his cousin Ules Ketchum , approached me with their uncle, Jesse Ketchum , and asked me how we were related. I told him, "Oren Ketchum was my Grandpa." Suddenly tears began to roll down his face. Ules then said to me, "Oren, oh how I loved him."
My Grandpa touched a lot of lives.
Husband of Margaret Harriet Thompson . Oren taught others by the example of his life. He loved children and taught that hard work gave rewards. When he married Margaret, he took into his home and into his heart, her two children from previous relationships, Jack Thompson and Mary Jane Thompson. When Mary Jane died, her death record & tombstone reflects his name.
Together Oren and Margaret had eight more children. Donna , Linda , Nancy (Betty) , William (Bill) , Howard , Caroline (Carolyn) , Patsy and Frederick (Freddie) . A loving and patient husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend, Grandpa was a humble man.
Following his death, he was memorialized by the family doctor, Peter Northouse in a wonderfully written essay honoring my Grandfather's life. The essay is as follows:
P.B. Northouse M.D.
626 Medical Arts Bldg.
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49502
April 6, 1970
It is quite proper that remarks be made when a man departs this life; by those who knew him in intimate ways. Such remarks should be confined and limited to a review of and comment on the man's stature in the community. Oren's stature was measured by his honesty, his integrity, his concern for his family and others first, and with a devotion that was unbounded.
There was no show, no sham and no bluff. He didn't care for those things that measure status; because you know, he was too busy trying to keep the home fires burning and that meant working to pay for coal and wood. It was always warm in his home, when the doctor came for a birth, for illness or for death. Oren worked still harder to supply the onions that were used to prepare a poultice for the chest of the child seriously sick with pneumonia. Oren and the doctor treated without antibiotics, but God cured and healed and blessed that home.
Oren's children learned from example to love, honor and obey. That heritage they should and are passing on to the many grandchildren that they may help provide a safe and sane Michigan and one where God is not dead.
Oren's family doctor and friend of the last 30 years can vouch for the above and will also miss him and not just because he will not be able to bum anymore cigarettes from Oren. Let's pray that we may follow those examples.
Dr. Pete. (Northouse.)
Many years after my grandfather's passing, his cousin Ules Ketchum , approached me with their uncle, Jesse Ketchum , and asked me how we were related. I told him, "Oren Ketchum was my Grandpa." Suddenly tears began to roll down his face. Ules then said to me, "Oren, oh how I loved him."
My Grandpa touched a lot of lives.
Oren Jacob Ketchum, Son of Jesse "Jack" Oren Ketchum and Elmay Snyder Campbell Ketchum Rittenhouse . Named for his father, Jesse Oren Ketchum , and his maternal grandfather, Jacob Van Buren Snyder .
Husband of Margaret Harriet Thompson . Oren taught others by the example of his life. He loved children and taught that hard work gave rewards. When he married Margaret, he took into his home and into his heart, her two children from previous relationships, Jack Thompson and Mary Jane Thompson. When Mary Jane died, her death record & tombstone reflects his name.
Together Oren and Margaret had eight more children. Donna , Linda , Nancy (Betty) , William (Bill) , Howard , Caroline (Carolyn) , Patsy and Frederick (Freddie) . A loving and patient husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend, Grandpa was a humble man.
Following his death, he was memorialized by the family doctor, Peter Northouse in a wonderfully written essay honoring my Grandfather's life. The essay is as follows:
P.B. Northouse M.D.
626 Medical Arts Bldg.
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49502
April 6, 1970
It is quite proper that remarks be made when a man departs this life; by those who knew him in intimate ways. Such remarks should be confined and limited to a review of and comment on the man's stature in the community. Oren's stature was measured by his honesty, his integrity, his concern for his family and others first, and with a devotion that was unbounded.
There was no show, no sham and no bluff. He didn't care for those things that measure status; because you know, he was too busy trying to keep the home fires burning and that meant working to pay for coal and wood. It was always warm in his home, when the doctor came for a birth, for illness or for death. Oren worked still harder to supply the onions that were used to prepare a poultice for the chest of the child seriously sick with pneumonia. Oren and the doctor treated without antibiotics, but God cured and healed and blessed that home.
Oren's children learned from example to love, honor and obey. That heritage they should and are passing on to the many grandchildren that they may help provide a safe and sane Michigan and one where God is not dead.
Oren's family doctor and friend of the last 30 years can vouch for the above and will also miss him and not just because he will not be able to bum anymore cigarettes from Oren. Let's pray that we may follow those examples.
Dr. Pete. (Northouse.)
Many years after my grandfather's passing, his cousin Ules Ketchum , approached me with their uncle, Jesse Ketchum , and asked me how we were related. I told him, "Oren Ketchum was my Grandpa." Suddenly tears began to roll down his face. Ules then said to me, "Oren, oh how I loved him."
My Grandpa touched a lot of lives.
Husband of Margaret Harriet Thompson . Oren taught others by the example of his life. He loved children and taught that hard work gave rewards. When he married Margaret, he took into his home and into his heart, her two children from previous relationships, Jack Thompson and Mary Jane Thompson. When Mary Jane died, her death record & tombstone reflects his name.
Together Oren and Margaret had eight more children. Donna , Linda , Nancy (Betty) , William (Bill) , Howard , Caroline (Carolyn) , Patsy and Frederick (Freddie) . A loving and patient husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend, Grandpa was a humble man.
Following his death, he was memorialized by the family doctor, Peter Northouse in a wonderfully written essay honoring my Grandfather's life. The essay is as follows:
P.B. Northouse M.D.
626 Medical Arts Bldg.
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49502
April 6, 1970
It is quite proper that remarks be made when a man departs this life; by those who knew him in intimate ways. Such remarks should be confined and limited to a review of and comment on the man's stature in the community. Oren's stature was measured by his honesty, his integrity, his concern for his family and others first, and with a devotion that was unbounded.
There was no show, no sham and no bluff. He didn't care for those things that measure status; because you know, he was too busy trying to keep the home fires burning and that meant working to pay for coal and wood. It was always warm in his home, when the doctor came for a birth, for illness or for death. Oren worked still harder to supply the onions that were used to prepare a poultice for the chest of the child seriously sick with pneumonia. Oren and the doctor treated without antibiotics, but God cured and healed and blessed that home.
Oren's children learned from example to love, honor and obey. That heritage they should and are passing on to the many grandchildren that they may help provide a safe and sane Michigan and one where God is not dead.
Oren's family doctor and friend of the last 30 years can vouch for the above and will also miss him and not just because he will not be able to bum anymore cigarettes from Oren. Let's pray that we may follow those examples.
Dr. Pete. (Northouse.)
Many years after my grandfather's passing, his cousin Ules Ketchum , approached me with their uncle, Jesse Ketchum , and asked me how we were related. I told him, "Oren Ketchum was my Grandpa." Suddenly tears began to roll down his face. Ules then said to me, "Oren, oh how I loved him."
My Grandpa touched a lot of lives.
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