Matchett services

Jeremy Alyn Matchett

Graveside services for Jeremy Alyn Matchett, 69, Lawrence, will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Oak Hill Cemetery. A memorial service will follow at 1 p.m. at Plymouth Congregational Church.

Mr. Matchett died Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003, at Central Montana Medical Center in Lewistown, Mont.

He was born Oct. 5, 1934, in Manhattan, the son of John A. and Lois H. (Beckman) Matchett. He graduated from Topeka High School in 1952. He received a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy in 1956 from Kansas University, and a doctorate in pharmacology and toxicology from KU in 1976.

Mr. Matchett had been on the KU pharmacy faculty since 1972 and was the associate dean for 16 years. He returned to full-time teaching and research in the pharmacy practice department Aug. 1, 2003.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served as chief of pharmacy service, M.A.S.H., Fort Meade, Md., from 1957 to 1960. He practiced pharmacy in neighborhood and retail chain drug stores, at Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka, and at Topeka State Hospital. He owned Prescription Center Pharmacy in Topeka from 1962 to 1972. He became editor-in-chief for Pharmat Inc., a business providing continuing pharmacy education courses for more than 40 universities, in 1974.

Mr. Matchett was president of the Kansas Pharmacists Assn. from 1982 to 1983 and received both the AACP Blockstein Award of Merit for Continuing Education and the Kansas Pharmacist of the Year award in 1986. He was nominated for KU’s HOPE award in 1986 and 1989. He received the board of trustees’ Award for Outstanding and Continued Service to the Pharmacists of Kansas at the annual meeting of the Kansas Pharmacists Assn. on Sept. 20.

He married Gayle Barry in 1957 in Lawrence. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include two sons, Randy, Lewistown, Mont., and Chris, Lawrence; a daughter, Kera Matchett, Overland Park; a brother, David, Topeka; and four grandchildren.

Friends may call from noon to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary, where the family will receive friends from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday.

The family suggests memorials to the Jere Matchett Memorial Fund, Topeka Community Foundation, to be used in the area of his professional interests in pharmacy, sent in care of the mortuary.

Online condolences may be sent to info@warrenmcelwain.com, subject: Matchett.