Yvonne Ketcher

(From Brown-Winters Funeral Home)

Marilyn “Yvonne” Ketcher, 85, a longtime Miami resident, passed away on Thursday, July 28, 2022 in Miami, Oklahoma. 

Mrs. Ketcher was born on March 21, 1937 in Joplin, Missouri to John Samuel and Ruth Viann (Edmondson) Kidwell. 

Yvonne graduated from Miami High School with the class of 1955; she went on to graduate from Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College then she received her Bachelor of Science degree from Oklahoma State University. Yvonne was a Norse Star while she attended NEO A&M College in Miami. 

After graduating from OSU, she married the love of her life, Kent Ketcher in Miami at Immanuel Baptist Church on March 12, 1960. Yvonne was the secretary for the Circuit Attorney’s Office in St. Louis, Missouri. She also worked for Union Pacific Technologies for twenty years where she retired. 

Yvonne loved OSU and her cavalry. The love of her family was important to her. She made sure her family knew the importance of love and everyone that crossed her path knew how important love was to her. 

Survivors include her daughter Kenda Hardcastle and her husband Alan of Wichita, Kansas, and her son Tim Ketcher and his wife Yu-Ruey of Saint Paul, Minnesota, a brother Nolan Edmondson and his wife Wanda of Seneca, Missouri, her granddaughter Thekla Ketcher, her niece Kris Housh-Burki and her husband Travis of Miami. John Middlekauff, Mitch Stevens, Gary Crow and Rob Erosha were like sons to her, and she considered them “adopted sons.” 

Her dear, much beloved friends from St. Louis, Linda Fogelbach and Kathy Schroeder, were like sisters to her as well and a host of nieces, nephews, and many other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be 2:00 PM on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at Immanuel Baptist Church in Miami. There will be a reception beginning at 1:00 PM for family and friends.

In lieu of flowers, Yvonne’s wishes were that memorial contributions be made to the Ketcher/Keheley Animal Shelter at 501 East Central, Miami, OK 74354 and the Immanuel Baptist Church in Miami.

Friends and family may send the family notes of encouragement by viewing Mrs. Ketchers's Tribute Page at www.brown-winters.com