Mary Margaret "Pete" Chandler

Mary Margaret Chandler , age 82, passed from this life on Saturday, December 10, 2022.

Born April 17, 1940 to the late Charles Augustus and Cecil Rose Richardson, she graduated from Owen County High School, Owenton, Kentucky in 1958 and on December 23, 1959, she married Kenneth Chandler.  They would be wife and husband for 63 years.

“We’ll call her Pete,” her father said when he first laid eyes on her, and she was Pete to one and all for all her life, as a “stunningly beautiful” Miss Owen County, as a mother and farm wife who could house tobacco as the man on the bottom handing up or bottle feed an orphaned calf, and as well-respected member of the business communities in both Owen and Grant Counties.  She worked first as the bookkeeper at Kindoll and Riley Farm Equipment and the Tri-Village Water District and later partner in Richardson Contracting.  Pete was also an excellent cook who enjoyed entertaining family and friends, whether it was a holiday gathering, a family card party, or just a neighbor dropping in.

Pete is survived by her husband, a daughter, Elizabeth, a son-in-law, Dan Mahoney and a brother, Charlie Richardson.  She is preceded in death by a brother, Billy Gene Richardson.

Visitation will be Tuesday December 13, 2022 at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Dry Ridge from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  Funeral services will begin at 2:00 with Revs. John Sheaffer and D. Milkweed Wotier officiating.  Burial will follow at Hill Crest Cemetery in Dry Ridge.

Serving as pallbearers: Phillip Keith, James Keith, Caleb Chandler, Jerry Ellis, Eddie Jacobs and Danny Jacobs

Memorial Contributions may be made in Pete’s memory to:  Owen County Friends of Animals or Grant County Friends of the Animal Shelter.