John Metsch

Graveside services with full military honors were conducted last month at Kansas Veterans Cemetery, Fort Riley, for Peabody native John Rodney Metsch, 90, of Ogden, who died Dec. 27.

He was born Oct. 30, 1933, to John T. and Ethel Metsch and graduated in 1951 from Peabody High School.

He served for 28½ years in the Army, mainly in Europe, as a nuclear weapons technician, retiring as a chief warrant officer.

Survivors include wife Agnes; daughter Diane Burke of Austin, Texas; sister Ruth Sheridan of Newton; and a granddaughter.

A baby daughter, Cathy, preceded him in death.