Posted by ******* on January 28, 2003:

Thursday, January 12, 1995 ALFRED KERTH JR., 68, WAS BANK EXECUTIVE, COMMUNITY LEADER Alfred H. Kerth Jr., a retired bank executive and community leader in St. Louis County, died Wednesday ( Jan. 11, 1995 ) at Missouri Baptist Hospital in Town and Country after a brief illness. He was 68 and lived in west St. Louis County. Mr. Kerth began his career in 1952 as a cashier with Chesterfield Bank and rose to become its president and chief executive officer. The bank, founded by his grandfather in the 1920s, was acquired by Centerre Bankcorporation in the early 1970s and is now part of Boatmen's Bankcorporation. He retired in 1991. Mr. Kerth was a former board member of the St. Louis County Library, a former president of the Clayton Rotary Club and a member of the commission that revised the St. Louis County Charter in the mid-1960s. He was also a volunteer at Barber State Park. Mr. Kerth was born in St. Louis and reared in Clayton. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and served in the Air Force in the late 1940s and early 1950s. A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Bonhomme Presbyterian Church, 14820 Conway Road in Chesterfield. Burial will be private. Among the survivors are his wife, Margaretha Hager Betz Kerth; a daughter, Lisa Noel Kerth Roberts of Woodstock, Ill.; three sons, Alfred H. Kerth III and Peter D. Kerth, both of University City, and Henry Philip Kerth of Boston; his mother, Noel Baird Kerth of University City; two sisters, Betty Kerth Pratt of Chesterfield and Mary Kerth Jackson of Santa Fe, N.M.; and 10 grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.

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