From The Pettit Correspondent, Volume 3, Number 1, page 101

Some 1989 Obits

Received from Bernice Powers
The Boise Statesman, 14 April 1989

Iva E. Pettit, 92, of Jerome died Wednesday, April 12, 1989, in a retirement home after a short illness.

Services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 14, at the Hove-Robertson Funeral Chapel, Jerome. The Rev. Ellis Keck and the American War Mothers will officiate. Burial will be in the Jerome Cemetery. No viewing is planned.

Iva was born Oct. 24, 1896, at Tyronza, Ark., a daughter of William and Lenna G. Mietzler Manning. She was reared and educated in Harrison, Ark. She married James R. Pettit on Oct. 27, 1915, at Harrison, Ark. After their marriage they farmed for a number of years in the Harrison area. In 1938, they moved to Idaho and farmed in the Jerome and Oshone area. In 1955, they retired and moved into Jerome. She worked at St. Benedicts Family Medical Center as a cook for a number of years, and also as a volunteer at the House of Hope for 10 years.

She was a member of the American War Mothers, and the oldest member of the Jerome First Baptist Church.

Survivors include two sons, J.C. Pettit of Las Vegas, Nev., and David Pettit of Burley; one daughter, Genette Tankersley of Ontario, Ore.; nine grandchildren; and 14 great- grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband in December, 1972, one brother, three sisters, two sons, one granddaughter and one great-grandson.

The family suggests that memorials may be made in her name to the Jerome First Baptist Church.


Received from Loretta Taylor
The Washington Post, 5 May 1989

Mason Bowers Pettit, 86, a retired clinical director in psychiatry at St. Elizabeths Hospital, died of Cancer May 4 at Brook Grove Nursing Home in Olney. He lived in Leisure World of Maryland Inc. in Silver Spring.

A native of Waco, Tex., Dr. Pettit graduated from Trinity University in Texas and received a degree in medicine from Vanderbilt University. He moved to the Washington area in 1929 and completed his medical training at St. Elizabeths, where he worked until he retired in 1960.

For the next 13 years, he was the superintendent of the state mental hospital in St. Joseph, Mo. From 1973 to 1979, he was the superintendent of the Southwestern State Hospitals in Thomasville and Bainbridge, Ga. He returned to the Washington area in 1979.

In 1947, Dr. Pettit became the first psychiatrist with the Arlington County Alcoholic Clinic, which became the Arlington Mental Hygiene Clinic.

He had been a volunteer psychiatrist with the Washington Institute of Mental Hygiene and the Eastern Branch Kiwanis Clinic, which provided health care for children in five schools in southeast Washington. He also was an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University from 1941 to 1960.

He was a Mason, Shriner and member of the Kiwanis Club. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a fellow of the American Psychiatry Association.

His first wife, Dagny Pettit, died in 1983.

Survivors include his wife, Louise Graves Pettit of Silver Springs; two children by his first marriage, John W. Pettit of Potomac and Marjorie P. James of Shawnee Mission, Kan.; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.


Received from William Pettite
The Schuyler Sun

Rev. Dr. Ronald H. Wakeman officiated at the Sept. 1, 10 a.m. funeral service for Adelaide Pettit, 98, at Svoboda Funeral Home. Burial was in Schuyler Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Dr. John O'Neal, Tom Hamernik, Charles Hamernik, Michael Hamernik, Carl W. Drott and Delbert Davidson.

Mrs. Pettit died Aug. 30, 1989, at the Stanton Nursing Home.

The daughter of Joseph A. and Josephine Rousar Husak, she was born Feb. 22, 1891 in Colfax County. She attended Colfax and Stanton Country Rural Schools and graduated from Boyles Business College, Omaha. Mrs. Pettit lived in Lincoln before moving to Stanton in June, 1979.

Survivors include nieces and nephews.

Her husband, Andrew, four brothers and three sisters preceded her in death.


Received from Theodore Bozarth
The Times, Trenton, N.J., 12 September 1989

PLUMSTED TOWNSHIP - Olive M. Pettit, 88, of the New Egypt section, died Sunday at the Memorial Hospital of Burlington County, Mount Holly.

Born in Osceola Mills, Pa., Mrs. Pettit was a resident of New Egypt for 33 years and a former resident of Island Beach and Hamilton.

She was a retired civilian employee of McGuire Air Force Base, a 47-year member of the American Legion Auxiliary and a member of the Morning Star Chapter No. 22 Order of the Eastern Star in Hamilton Square.

Wife of the late Sterling Pettit, she is survived by four nieces, two nephews and other relatives.

Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Tilghman Funeral Home, 52 Main St., New Egypt.

Burial will follow in Riverview Cemetery, Trenton.

Friends may call Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home. Eastern Star services will begin at 7:30 p.m.


Received from Kathryn McCutcheon
Time Recorder, Zanesville, Ohio, 6 November 1989

Raymond F. Pettit, 57, of Glenford Route 1, died at 9:50 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 5, 1989, at Good Samaritan Medical Center.

Mr. Pettit was an employee of Resinoid Engineering Corp. in Hebron and an Air Force veteran of the Korean Conflict.

He was born July, 25. 1932, at Licking View, son of Fenton and Pauline Emmert Pettit.

Surviving are his wife, Doris Fosnaugh Pettit; one son, Fred Pettit of Newark; two daughters, Mrs. Carolyn Abbott of Buckeye Lake and Mrs. Marilyn Skinner of Newark; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Crystal Jourdan of Somerset and Roxanne Miller of Glenford; three stepsons, Randy Miller of Somerset and Robert Miller and Robin Miller, both of Virginia Beach, Va.; one sister, Mrs. Betty Harris of Somerset; six brothers, Bernard Pettit of Derby, Conn., Fenton Pettit of Daly City, Calif., Ralph Pettit of Somerset, James Pettit of Glenford, Donald Pettit of Spartansburg, S.C. and Wayne Pettit of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and 21 grandchildren.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Thomas Funeral Home in Somerset, Rita Smurr officiating. Burial will be in Mount Horeb Cemetery, Crooksville, with full military honors.