Leota "Grace" Kennedy, 90, Russell, died Tuesday, March 1, 2005, at the Russell Regional Hospital. She was born March 10, 1914, in Kirksville, Mo., to Carlos Hampton and Anice L. (Shinn) Bailey. She frew up in Greentop, MO, near Kirksville. She graduated from Greentop High School in 1932. She married John Kermit Kennedy on Nov. 26, 1936, in Kirksville. He died Feb. 3, 1983. After their marriage, they resided in Baltimore, MD; K.C., MO; and Columbia, MO; before moving to Russell in 1948. She was a nurse's aide for the medical clinic of Drs. White, Pettyjohn and Shultz in Russell before her retirement.
Survivors include a son, Jim Kennedy and wife Diana, Rocky Ford, Colo.; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Jean Kay Michaelis; her husband, parents two brothers and three sisters.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Pohlman-Heise Memorial Chapel, Russell; burial in the Russell City Cemetery. Pohlman-Heise Mortuary, Russell, in charge. Memorials are suggested to the First Baptist Church, Russell.
Survivors include a son, Jim Kennedy and wife Diana, Rocky Ford, Colo.; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Jean Kay Michaelis; her husband, parents two brothers and three sisters.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Pohlman-Heise Memorial Chapel, Russell; burial in the Russell City Cemetery. Pohlman-Heise Mortuary, Russell, in charge. Memorials are suggested to the First Baptist Church, Russell.
Leota "Grace" Kennedy, 90, Russell, died Tuesday, March 1, 2005, at the Russell Regional Hospital. She was born March 10, 1914, in Kirksville, Mo., to Carlos Hampton and Anice L. (Shinn) Bailey. She frew up in Greentop, MO, near Kirksville. She graduated from Greentop High School in 1932. She married John Kermit Kennedy on Nov. 26, 1936, in Kirksville. He died Feb. 3, 1983. After their marriage, they resided in Baltimore, MD; K.C., MO; and Columbia, MO; before moving to Russell in 1948. She was a nurse's aide for the medical clinic of Drs. White, Pettyjohn and Shultz in Russell before her retirement.
Survivors include a son, Jim Kennedy and wife Diana, Rocky Ford, Colo.; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Jean Kay Michaelis; her husband, parents two brothers and three sisters.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Pohlman-Heise Memorial Chapel, Russell; burial in the Russell City Cemetery. Pohlman-Heise Mortuary, Russell, in charge. Memorials are suggested to the First Baptist Church, Russell.
Survivors include a son, Jim Kennedy and wife Diana, Rocky Ford, Colo.; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Jean Kay Michaelis; her husband, parents two brothers and three sisters.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Pohlman-Heise Memorial Chapel, Russell; burial in the Russell City Cemetery. Pohlman-Heise Mortuary, Russell, in charge. Memorials are suggested to the First Baptist Church, Russell.
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