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Everett E. Ratzlaff Sr.
Posted 12/27/06
Everett E. Ratzlaff Sr., 74 SMYRNA - Everett E. Ratzlaff Sr. of Smyrna died Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2006, in his home. He was 74. Mr. Ratzlaff was born Feb. 13, 1932, in DuQuion, Kan., son of the late …
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Everett E. Ratzlaff Sr.
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Everett E. Ratzlaff Sr., 74
SMYRNA - Everett E. Ratzlaff Sr. of Smyrna died Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2006, in his home. He was 74.
Mr. Ratzlaff was born Feb. 13, 1932, in DuQuion, Kan., son of the late Henry and Mary Kelm Ratzlaff.
He worked as a machinist at Dover Air Force Base for 35 years before retiring in 1988.
Mr. Ratzlaff was a U.S. Air Force veteran of the Korean War and a member of the American Legion David C. Harrison Post 14, Smyrna.
He coached in the Smyrna-Clayton Little League for 20 years and enjoyed hunting, fishing, woodworking, flower gardening, watching the Philadelphia Phillies and Eagles and observing wildlife at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge where he was a member of the Golden Eagles.
Mr. Ratzlaff took special pride in his family and his yard and was a wonderful father, grandfather and husband who loved life.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Danielle Marie Brodeur in 2003; seven brothers, William, Reynold, Arthur, August, Albert, Donald and Joseph; and three sisters, Annie Ratzlaff, Mary Yoder and Dorothy Konicek.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Mary Brown Ratzlaff; four children and their spouses, Robin S. and Kenneth E. Pressley of Dover, Everett E. Ratzlaff Jr. of Dover, Donna Ruth and Thomas Lovelace of Orange Park, Fla. and Ronda L. and Nicholas DiSalvo Jr. of Camden; two brothers, Harold Ratzlaff of Spokane, Wash. and Johnny Ratzlaff and his wife, Clara of Wichita, Kan.; three sisters, Evelyn Ray of Stone Mountain, Ga., Martha Lint and her husband, Bob of Danville, Kan. and Bertha Ratzlaff of Harper, Kan.; his grandchildren, Matthew Pressley, Pamela Brodeur, Brandon DiSalvo, Jennifer Lovelace, Jessica Lovelace, Joshua Lovelace, Jason Woody and Justin Strouse and Joshua Strouse; a great granddaughter, McKenzie Marie Brodeur; and many other family and friends.
Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday in Faries Funeral Chapel, 29 S. Main St., Smyrna, where friends may call two hours earlier.
Burial will be in Sharon Hills Memorial Park, Dover.
Memorial contributions may be made to Delaware Hospice, 911 South DuPont Highway, Dover, DE 19901.
SMYRNA - Everett E. Ratzlaff Sr. of Smyrna died Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2006, in his home. He was 74.
Mr. Ratzlaff was born Feb. 13, 1932, in DuQuion, Kan., son of the late Henry and Mary Kelm Ratzlaff.
He worked as a machinist at Dover Air Force Base for 35 years before retiring in 1988.
Mr. Ratzlaff was a U.S. Air Force veteran of the Korean War and a member of the American Legion David C. Harrison Post 14, Smyrna.
He coached in the Smyrna-Clayton Little League for 20 years and enjoyed hunting, fishing, woodworking, flower gardening, watching the Philadelphia Phillies and Eagles and observing wildlife at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge where he was a member of the Golden Eagles.
Mr. Ratzlaff took special pride in his family and his yard and was a wonderful father, grandfather and husband who loved life.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Danielle Marie Brodeur in 2003; seven brothers, William, Reynold, Arthur, August, Albert, Donald and Joseph; and three sisters, Annie Ratzlaff, Mary Yoder and Dorothy Konicek.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Mary Brown Ratzlaff; four children and their spouses, Robin S. and Kenneth E. Pressley of Dover, Everett E. Ratzlaff Jr. of Dover, Donna Ruth and Thomas Lovelace of Orange Park, Fla. and Ronda L. and Nicholas DiSalvo Jr. of Camden; two brothers, Harold Ratzlaff of Spokane, Wash. and Johnny Ratzlaff and his wife, Clara of Wichita, Kan.; three sisters, Evelyn Ray of Stone Mountain, Ga., Martha Lint and her husband, Bob of Danville, Kan. and Bertha Ratzlaff of Harper, Kan.; his grandchildren, Matthew Pressley, Pamela Brodeur, Brandon DiSalvo, Jennifer Lovelace, Jessica Lovelace, Joshua Lovelace, Jason Woody and Justin Strouse and Joshua Strouse; a great granddaughter, McKenzie Marie Brodeur; and many other family and friends.
Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday in Faries Funeral Chapel, 29 S. Main St., Smyrna, where friends may call two hours earlier.
Burial will be in Sharon Hills Memorial Park, Dover.
Memorial contributions may be made to Delaware Hospice, 911 South DuPont Highway, Dover, DE 19901.
