Jerome W. "Jerry" Kaiser, 84, of 1993 Watkins Road, Fort Recovery, died at 6:45 p.m. Aug. 24, 2008 at his residence.

He was born Oct. 2, 1923, in Sharpsburg, to Raymond and Cora Keller Kaiser. On Sept. 2, 1950, he married Joan Brunswick, who survives.

Other survivors are three sons, Duane (Marian), El Paso, Texas, Roger (Brenda), Coldwater, and Brian, Fort Recovery; three daughters, Janet Ryan, Centerville, Linda (Jack) Heitkamp, and Diane (Mike) Burke, all of St. Henry; three brothers, Don (Joanne), Greenville, Jack (Jean), North Star, and Bud (Doris), Fort Recovery; a sister, Marie (Charles) Keiser, Greenville; a brother-in-law, Ray Depweg, Greenville; a sister-in-law, Alvira, Fort Recovery; 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Deceased are two brothers, Harold and Paul; and three sisters, Eleanor Smith, Melinda Kaiser and Eileen Depweg.

He retired from the former Westinghouse Company, Union City, Ind., where he had worked as a shipping and receiving clerk. He was a member of the St. Paul Catholic Church, Sharpsburg, and its Holy Name Society.

Funeral Mass is 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the church, the Rev. Charles Mullen officiating. Burial is at the church cemetery.

Calling is 2-8 p.m. Tuesday and 9-10 a.m. Wednesday at Brockman-Boeckman Funeral Home, Fort Recovery.

Contributions can be made to the State of the Heart Hospice.