Ray Pettit, as he was known as by his immediate family for many years, has four living blood relatives.

I, Ted Kochel, the oldest of the four, am the son of Ray's older sister Dorothy E.Kochel

( Pettit ). My sister Elizabeth A. Bales ( Kochel), daughter of Dorothy E.

Next is Harley J. Pettit and Margaret A. Jahnke ( Pettit ), children of Harry (Buster)

and Iva Pettit, both deceased.

Ray or Robert was the youngest of five children, born to Harry Ira and Sadie (Turnbaugh) Pettit.

To my knowledge the four of us are the last living relatives on the Pettit side of family. Ray was ten years my senior and my baby sitter for more years than he would like to remember. I will miss him and will take his place as Patriarch of the Pettit

family with pride.

Theodore J. Kochel