Betty Eileen Kemper, 86 , formally of Jeromesville, OH

died January 11, 2014 in the Kingston Healthcare Center

in Ashland, OH.  She was born March 8, 1927 in Adams

Township of Seneca County, OH, the daughter of

Raymond A. and Mary Catherine Hall.  She married

John W. Kemper on August 29, 1948 and they were

married 47 years before John's death in June 1995.

Betty was a graduate of Tiffin University and worked

in a dress shop and at Tiffin State Hospital before

becoming a homemaker.  She was a longtime member of Trinity

Lutheran Church in Ashland, OH.  Betty loved to sew and over the years made many

of her own clothes and various dolls and doll clothes for her grandchildren.   She made

many quilts, and gave each grandchild a homemade quilt for their high school

graduations, and made many lap quilts for wounded servicemen.  She was also active

in several organizations until her later years—including the Farm Bureau,

Homemakers Club, Piecemakers quilt club, Genealogy Society,  and she was a grange

member for more than 50 years.  She researched and wrote four genealogies of

branches of the Hall and Kemper families.  Betty's family was more important to her

than anything else.

Betty is survived by her five children:  Mary (Charles) Brown of East Hampton, CT,

Raymond Kemper of West Salem, OH, Ronald (Doris) Kemper of Ashland, OH,  Karl

Kemper of West Salem, OH, and Frances (William) Berger of Perrysville, OH.  She is

also survived by a sister June (Gregg) Cole of Tiffin, OH, five grandchildren:  Corrie

(Jon) Albright of N. Little Rock, AR, Dr. Kelly (Nabil) Matmati of Coram, NY, Sarah

(Matthew) Deener of Frederick, MD, Crystal (Jason) Gibbs of West Salem, OH, and

Cody Berger of Perrysville, OH,  and six great grandchildren:  Ainsley and Asher

Albright, Laila and Neal Matmati, and Ethan and Gracie Gibbs, and various nieces

and nephews.

Service will be held at 10 AM Wednesday, January 15 at the Trinity Lutheran

Church, 508 Center St., Ashland, OH.  Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetary in

Tiffin, OH.  Friends may call Tuesday January 14 from 6 to 8 PM at Fickes Funeral

Home,  84 North High St., Jeromesville, OH.   Online condolences may be made at

www.fickesfuneralhome.com .

Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of North Central Ohio

1050 Dauch Drive Ashland, OH 44805.