A short service will be held at the Warren funeral home in Nortonville at 2 p.m. tomorrow for Mrs. Mae Kenyon, 93, who died at her home in Los Angeles Friday. Burial will be in the Nortonville cemetery. Pallbearers will be Earl Van Horn, Earl Stephan, Edwin Wheeler, Jesse Van Horn, Lawrence Maris and Charles Coon. Funeral services were held today in Los Angeles.
She was born March 8, 1867, at Walkerton, Ind., a daughter of James B. and Christina Riley Henry, and moved with her parents in a covered wagon to the Nortonville community in 1876, She was married to Frank W. Kenyon, farmer and stockman, on Feb. 18, 1885. They went to housekeeping on the Clark farm north of Cummings, and moved to Ruyter, N.Y., in 1913. She was a lifelong member of the Seventh Day Baptist church in Nortonville and Los Angeles.
She leaves a son, Orlo H. Kenyon, Nortonville; a brother, Ellsworth Henry, Effingham; a sister, Mrs. Clara Landrum, Los Angeles; six grandchildren, Mrs. Jack Mitchell, Mrs. Laurence Niemann, Mrs. Charles Wheeler, Nortonville; Mrs. Venita Bowman and Melvin Kenyon, Los Angeles, and Bartley Kenyon, Detroit, Mich.. and 12 great grandchildren.
Her husband, a son, Ernest, and two brothers, William and John Henry, are deceased.
From The Atchison Daily Globe (Atchison, Kansas), Tuesday, October 18, 1960.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 170, No 18, p 16, May 1, 1961.
Mae Catherine Kenyon, the daughter of Christina and James B. Henry, was born March 8, 1867, at Walkerton, Indiana, and died October 14, 1960, at Los Angeles. In 1878 she journeyed with three brothers and sisters to Nortonville, Kan. by covered wagon. She was married February 19, 1885, to Frank Clark Kenyon. To this union were born two sons, Ernest and Orla. They moved to De Ruyter, N. Y., in the spring of 1914 to farm. There they were active members of the Seventh Day Baptist church. After the death of Mr. Kenyon in 1932, she went to Detroit, Mich., to be with her son Ernest. In 1936 she came to make her home in Los Angeles where she became active in the Seventh Day Baptist church.
Survivors are: her brother Elsworth Henry; a sister, Clara Landrum; and a son Orla; 6 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the Utter-McKinley Wilshire Chapel in Los Angeles with her pastor, the Rev. Francis D. Saunders, officiating. Place of interment was Nortonvllle, Kan.
F. D. S.
A short service will be held at the Warren funeral home in Nortonville at 2 p.m. tomorrow for Mrs. Mae Kenyon, 93, who died at her home in Los Angeles Friday. Burial will be in the Nortonville cemetery. Pallbearers will be Earl Van Horn, Earl Stephan, Edwin Wheeler, Jesse Van Horn, Lawrence Maris and Charles Coon. Funeral services were held today in Los Angeles.
She was born March 8, 1867, at Walkerton, Ind., a daughter of James B. and Christina Riley Henry, and moved with her parents in a covered wagon to the Nortonville community in 1876, She was married to Frank W. Kenyon, farmer and stockman, on Feb. 18, 1885. They went to housekeeping on the Clark farm north of Cummings, and moved to Ruyter, N.Y., in 1913. She was a lifelong member of the Seventh Day Baptist church in Nortonville and Los Angeles.
She leaves a son, Orlo H. Kenyon, Nortonville; a brother, Ellsworth Henry, Effingham; a sister, Mrs. Clara Landrum, Los Angeles; six grandchildren, Mrs. Jack Mitchell, Mrs. Laurence Niemann, Mrs. Charles Wheeler, Nortonville; Mrs. Venita Bowman and Melvin Kenyon, Los Angeles, and Bartley Kenyon, Detroit, Mich.. and 12 great grandchildren.
Her husband, a son, Ernest, and two brothers, William and John Henry, are deceased.
From The Atchison Daily Globe (Atchison, Kansas), Tuesday, October 18, 1960.
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 170, No 18, p 16, May 1, 1961.
Mae Catherine Kenyon, the daughter of Christina and James B. Henry, was born March 8, 1867, at Walkerton, Indiana, and died October 14, 1960, at Los Angeles. In 1878 she journeyed with three brothers and sisters to Nortonville, Kan. by covered wagon. She was married February 19, 1885, to Frank Clark Kenyon. To this union were born two sons, Ernest and Orla. They moved to De Ruyter, N. Y., in the spring of 1914 to farm. There they were active members of the Seventh Day Baptist church. After the death of Mr. Kenyon in 1932, she went to Detroit, Mich., to be with her son Ernest. In 1936 she came to make her home in Los Angeles where she became active in the Seventh Day Baptist church.
Survivors are: her brother Elsworth Henry; a sister, Clara Landrum; and a son Orla; 6 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the Utter-McKinley Wilshire Chapel in Los Angeles with her pastor, the Rev. Francis D. Saunders, officiating. Place of interment was Nortonvllle, Kan.
F. D. S.
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