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Ralph Teter Obituary
He was a graduate of Jeff Davis High School and received his Bachelor's Degree from Rice University. Ralph continued his education with Master's and Doctorate degrees from the University of Houston. He served in the U.S. Army as a Drill Sergeant. He retired from Region IV ESC as a Director. He also served as a board member of Smart Financial Credit Union.
Ralph is survived by his wife, Alice, with whom a deep, respectful love was shared. He is also survived by his daughter, Judi Corkery; son David and wife Melissa; grandchildren Robyn, Nicole, and Hannah.
Funeral service will be held Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 6:00 pm at American Heritage Funeral Home at 10710 Veterans Memorial Drive with interment Monday at 11:00 am.
The family would like to thank the staff at Odyssey Hospice for their compassion and care.
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Memories and Condolences
for Ralph Teter
Kathy Hinojosa
March 8, 2019
Gone, but never forgotten!! Love and miss you Ralph!!
March 28, 2012
Mr Teter was a very gifted chemistry teacher. Our sympathy to his family..
Mark & Lura Padgett
JHJ Class of '59 & '60
Jesse H Jones High School in 1961
Tom Wisdom
March 25, 2012
Such a great chemistry teacher
Tom Wisdom
March 25, 2012
He attended many Jones Class Reunions...
Tom Wisdom
March 25, 2012
Joseph Pickel
March 21, 2012
We rode the same school bus to Jeff Davis High School, Ralph was a dear
friend.
Condolences and Sympathy to His Family.
Carol Mixon Harder
March 20, 2012
He was my favorite teacher and I never even knew to call him, "Doctor."
March 19, 2012
Mr. Teter was my chemistry teacher at Jones, and it was the first science class that I had ever had that I found interesting. When I started college, I had to take a chemistry placement test. I was afraid I would bomb out on the test, and I did my very best. Thanks to Mr. Teter's excellent teaching, I was in the top 25 students out of about 1,000 freshmen taking that placement test. I ran into him at several professional organization meetings as well as class reunions and it was always delightful to reminisce with him about our days at Jones H.S.
Diane Adams Gillet, Baytown, TX
Loren Smith
March 19, 2012
He was a wise and honorable man. Condolences and sympathy to the family.
Corkery family
March 19, 2012
The Teter family is in our thoughts and prayers
Karen Stone
March 18, 2012
Please accept my deepest sympathy for Mr. Teter's passing. He had a profound effect on my professional life by allowing (after much badgering on my part) me to be the first female chemistry assistant at Jones. My world opened up as I fell in love with the lab. That experience was enough to get me my first job in a biomedical research lab - a profession that lasted 46 yrs. His kindness and intelligence, I will never forget.
Judy Payne Yeager
March 18, 2012
Mr. Teter was a wonderful teacher and man. He was a delight and inspiration to us. It was always nice to see him at our Jones reunions--he seemed to enjoy being with us as much as we with him. My condolences to his family.
Betty & Rob Barrett
March 18, 2012
Mr. Teter made it a joy learning Chemistry, using his wonderful sense of humor, imaginative lessons & precision in labs! My spouse and I met in his class and always loved seeing him at reunions, catching up on news. We will miss him next month (our JHJones HS 50th reunion) but he will always be in our thoughts, and hearts.
Bruce Martin
March 17, 2012
ps. I wish that I could recall all of the practical jokes and demonstrations that we naive, unsuspecting inhabitants of his domain endured in the course of a semester! Needless to say, he kept us "on our toes" and alert...
Bruce & Sharon Martin
March 17, 2012
Our deepest condolences. I join other students from JDHS in giving tribute to the instruction, the humor, the personality of Mr. Ralph Teter in his physics class. It was a period of the day that I always looked forward to and left feeling that I had benefited
Bruce Martin, Class of '57
Kathy Hinojosa
March 17, 2012
I have known Ralph for the past 23 years, and he was one of the most interesting, intelligent, and kind person I have ever known. RIP Ralph!!
Joe and Juanita Pyle
March 17, 2012
Juanita and I would like to extend our most sincere condolences to the extended family.
Dr. Teter was my high school physics teacher at Jefferson Davis High School and was always encouraging the students to continue our education.
We missed Dr. Teter at our most recent reunion. When he could not attend our 55th on 15 Oct 2011, we knew the prognosis was not good.
God Bless the entire family.
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