OLIVER R. KATT

PERRYVILLE -- Oliver R. Katt, 71, died Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1995, at the Perry County Memorial Hospital.

He was born March 9, 1924, at Menfro, son of Theodore and Esther Rodewald Katt. He married Orreal E. Heise on Oct. 30, 1949, at Perryville.

Until his retirement, he worked as a maintenance engineer at Perry Oaks Health Center. He was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church, Association for Retarded Citizens and a board member of VIP Industries Sheltered Workshop and Terrace Gardens programs, a member of the American Legion Post No. 133 and a World War II veteran of the Merchant Marines.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Kay Carolyn Katt of Perryville and Faye Lyn Natarajan of Chicago; three brothers, Beaufort Katt of Columbia, Raymond Katt of Ripon, Wis., and Victor Katt of Chester, Ill.; and three sisters, Olida Vogel of Perryville, Viola Ann Patterson of Chester and Euline Sprague of St. Louis.

He was preceded in death by a brother.

Friends may call from 5 to 9 p.m. today at Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville and again from 7 to 9:30 a.m. Friday.

Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Donald Loesch officiating. Burial will be at the Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery.