Retired T. B. I. agent, Mr. Bob Vetter, died at the age of 94 at 9:25 a.m. E.S.T. Saturday morning November 2, 2024 at his Crestview Drive home in the Hixon suburb at Chattanooga with his family present.
Tuesday afternoon November 5th funeral services will be conducted by Bro. Jeff Burton from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home at 1 p.m. Burial will follow beside his wife in the Gwaltney-Huddleston lot at the Baird Cemetery in the Hickman Community.
Military chapel services will be conducted by American Legion Post # 57 of Carthage.
The Vetter family will receive friends only on Tuesday November 5th at Sanderson in Carthage from 11 a.m. until the 1 p.m. funeral services.
He was born James Robert Vetter in McEwen in Humphreys County, Tennessee on April 14, 1930 and was the second of five children, a daughter and four sons, born to the late Romie Ray Vetter Sr. who died May 27, 1983 at the age of 81 and Alma Mildred Ewing who died March 27, 1990 at the age of 80.
His four siblings preceding him in death was an infant brother who died at three months of age, Billy Eugene Vetter who died June 23, 1934, Romie Ray (Dutch) Vetter Jr. who died April 29, 2010 at the age of 84, Tony Florence Vetter who died February 19, 2018 at the age of 72 and Louise Vetter Rochelle who died April 20, 2020 at the age of 84.
At the Carthage United Methodist Church on August 29, 1958, he was united in marriage to Carthage resident, the former Mary Sue Huddleston, who preceded him in death at the age of 82 on August 4, 2018, twenty days short of sixty years of marriage. The ceremony was officiated by then church pastor, Rev. Ewing S. Weakley.
Mr. Vetter retired as a field agent from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation in 1976.
He was of the Methodist faith.
Mr. Vetter proudly served our country with the United States Army during the Korean War and was honorably discharged with the rank of Staff Sergeant at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas on May 6, 1954.
Of the one year, nine months, and two days of military service, he served one year and two months in overseas service with the 11th Battery, 7th Arterially Division.
For his unwavering service he was awarded the Korean Service Medal with two bronze stars, the United Nations Service Medal, a National Defense Service Medal and an Officers Candidate Medal.
Surviving ae his two children, Shauna Vetter Wilson of Hixson, Jamie Vetter and wife Angie of Soddy-Daisy, TN; four grandchildren, Callie Wilson of Crossville, Chad Wilson of Hixson, Kaylin Daughtery and husband Matt and their daughter, Jovie of Soddy, TN, Haylie Vetter also of Soddy, TN.
