Individual Details

Leonard Franklin Kennedy

(5 Sep 1871 - 26 Mar 1952)

Leonard F. Kennedy Rites Slated
Funeral services for Leonard Franklin Kennedy, 80, will be held Thursday afternoon at, 3 p m. at the First Baptist Church in Lamesa with Rev. L. D. Ball, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in the Lamesa Cemetery with Higginbotham Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Kennedy had been a resident of Dawson County since 1904. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and of the Baptist Church. He was a farmer.
He died at 2:10 a.m.Wednesday in the San Angelo hospital
He Is survived by his wife; two daughters, Mrs. C. O. McKee, San Angelo, and Mrs. Ameral Payne, Lubbock, four grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. George Frost, Wynnewood Okla., and Mrs. Sabre Teel, Conroe Texas, and four brothers, Rex Kennedy, Garfield NM., Charley, Bill, and Chock, all of Elmore City Okla.
The pallbearers will be Dennis Nix, Gerstle Gorman, Ross MacDonald, W. K. Crawley, M. E. Boren, Elmo Smith, Tom Boyd and Jennings Winters, all of Lamesa. Honorary pallbearers will be the Pioneers of Dawson County and the Business Men's Bible Class of First Baptist Church.

Events

Birth5 Sep 1871Brownwood, Brown County, Texas
Marriage3 Nov 1903Iva Lee McWhorter
Death26 Mar 1952San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas
BurialDawson County Cemetery, Lamesa, Dawson County, Texas

Families

SpouseIva Lee McWhorter (1883 - 1966)
ChildHerbert L. Kennedy (1905 - 1910)
ChildLinna Mae Kennedy ( - )
ChildRuby Cristine Kennedy ( - )

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