Marilyn Frances Beougher, age 90, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, passed away on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, at the Country Club Rehabilitation Campus. She was born on March 11, 1936, in Mount Vernon, Ohio, to Carrol Lincoln and Anna Agnes (Omlor) White. She was a 1954 graduate of St. Vincent de Paul High School.
While in high school she worked part time at The Alcove. Following high school graduation she attended Mount Vernon Business School and worked in Mercy Hospital Business Office and Record Room. She was later hired by Cooper Bessemer as a secretary to the engineering department. During part of her time there, she shared an office with Helen Lynde, sister of actor Paul Lynde. Helen was kind enough to share with her some of the finer techniques of office protocol. After 3-1/2 years, Marilyn resigned to enter nurses’ training at Mount Carmel School of Nursing, graduating in 1961. She worked at Martin Memorial Hospital until 1964 when she retired in order to raise her family. She resumed her nursing career in 1969 as an industrial nurse at Pittsburg Plate Glass. When PPG closed, she worked for the Ohio Eastern Star Home, the Mount Vernon Developmental Center, and Morning View Care Center in Danville. She worked as secretary for a short time for Crown Floor Maintenance in Bellville. Since retiring, she has filled her time by assisting her son at Big Ketch Computer Assistance until it closed in 2015 and participating in various church activities.
Marilyn most recently attended New Life Community Church in Fredericktown before her stay at Country Club Retirement Campus. During her life, in several churches she served as a youth group leader, Sunday school teacher, part of the worship team, and a Christian clowning group. She was also an active member and officer for many years in Women’s Aglow Fellowship.
When not working, Marilyn enjoyed fishing, quilting, knitting & crocheting, playing the piano, taking care of her flower garden and volunteering at Starting Point in Mount Vernon. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, and grandmother.
She is survived by her children, James Ketchel, Richard (Brenda) Ketchel Jr., and William (Jennifer) Ketchel, stepchildren, Martha (Harold) Jackson, Timothy (Susan) Beougher, Nathanael (Ronda) Beougher and Maryanna Beougher, a daughter-in-law, Jackie Bell, 10 grandchildren, 9 step grandchildren, numerous great grandchildren, a brother, William (Kathy) White, sisters, Margaret Midea, Janet (James) Blaser, and Christine Williams.
Besides her parents she was preceded in death by her first husband, Richard J. Ketchel, Sr. (1977), her second husband, George Beougher (2009) and her daughter, Mary Mundy (2009).
Friends may call on Monday, April 6, 2026, from 2 to 4 pm at the Snyder Funeral Home, Lasater Chapel, 11337 Upper Gilchrist Road, Mount Vernon, Ohio 43050 where a Celebration of Life will begin at 4 pm. The family will observe a private burial in Mount Calvary Cemetery.
Memorial contributions in Marilyn’s name may be made to New Life Community Church of Fredericktown or to Starting Point of Mount Vernon.
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