Iris Laverne Kennedy Blythe went to be with the Lord at the age of 85, January 9, 2016, 10:40 PM. While she will be sorely missed, she reunites in Heaven with her husband, Hal Blythe, Sr. who passed two years earlier.
Iris was born to Chester and Mary Bumpers Kennedy of Quitman, Arkansas, January 3, 1931. After attending University of Central Arkansas she met and married Hal Blythe and moved to Odessa, Texas where she taught home economics until 1966. In 1966 the family moved to Commerce, Texas where Hal pursued his doctorate at East Texas State University in Commerce. During those years, she taught in Royce City until the family moved to San Marcos, Texas, August 1968, where she began teaching in the San Marcos Consolidated School District. She retired from the district after serving as a curriculum director for a number of years.
She and her husband, spent later years supporting the Texas State University girls’ volleyball and softball programs. Very much service-oriented, they volunteered at Central Texas Medical Center in San Marcos and worked together as volunteers with the San Marcos Visitors’ Center. As First United Methodist Church members in San Marcos, she supported the church’s areas of service such as the Food Bank.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Hal Blythe, Sr. She is survived by a sister and brother-in-law, Loueva and Max Burrows; sister-in-law, Delilah Ann Davenport; two sons, Hal Tucker Blythe, Jr. and Gary Thomas Blythe; daughter-in-law, Alicia Blythe; fiancé to Gary, Kimberly Doran; four grandchildren, Allison Lowry, Heather Ritt, Trenton Blythe, and Thomas Blythe; six great-grandchildren, Adelaide, Hudson, Levi and Ella Lowry, Avery and Colton Ritt; and three nephews, Mark Davenport, Brian Burrows, and Gregory Burrows.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 11:00 AM, January 25 at the First United Methodist Church in San Marcos, with the Rev. Jarrell Sharp officiating. It was her wishes that any memorial donations would be to the American Heart Association.
Arrangements under the care and guidance of Pennington Funeral Home, 323 N. Comanche, San Marcos, TX, 78666, (512) 353-4311. Obituary and guestbook online at www.penningtonfuneralhome.com.
Iris was born to Chester and Mary Bumpers Kennedy of Quitman, Arkansas, January 3, 1931. After attending University of Central Arkansas she met and married Hal Blythe and moved to Odessa, Texas where she taught home economics until 1966. In 1966 the family moved to Commerce, Texas where Hal pursued his doctorate at East Texas State University in Commerce. During those years, she taught in Royce City until the family moved to San Marcos, Texas, August 1968, where she began teaching in the San Marcos Consolidated School District. She retired from the district after serving as a curriculum director for a number of years.
She and her husband, spent later years supporting the Texas State University girls’ volleyball and softball programs. Very much service-oriented, they volunteered at Central Texas Medical Center in San Marcos and worked together as volunteers with the San Marcos Visitors’ Center. As First United Methodist Church members in San Marcos, she supported the church’s areas of service such as the Food Bank.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Hal Blythe, Sr. She is survived by a sister and brother-in-law, Loueva and Max Burrows; sister-in-law, Delilah Ann Davenport; two sons, Hal Tucker Blythe, Jr. and Gary Thomas Blythe; daughter-in-law, Alicia Blythe; fiancé to Gary, Kimberly Doran; four grandchildren, Allison Lowry, Heather Ritt, Trenton Blythe, and Thomas Blythe; six great-grandchildren, Adelaide, Hudson, Levi and Ella Lowry, Avery and Colton Ritt; and three nephews, Mark Davenport, Brian Burrows, and Gregory Burrows.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 11:00 AM, January 25 at the First United Methodist Church in San Marcos, with the Rev. Jarrell Sharp officiating. It was her wishes that any memorial donations would be to the American Heart Association.
Arrangements under the care and guidance of Pennington Funeral Home, 323 N. Comanche, San Marcos, TX, 78666, (512) 353-4311. Obituary and guestbook online at www.penningtonfuneralhome.com.
Iris Laverne Kennedy Blythe went to be with the Lord at the age of 85, January 9, 2016, 10:40 PM. While she will be sorely missed, she reunites in Heaven with her husband, Hal Blythe, Sr. who passed two years earlier.
Iris was born to Chester and Mary Bumpers Kennedy of Quitman, Arkansas, January 3, 1931. After attending University of Central Arkansas she met and married Hal Blythe and moved to Odessa, Texas where she taught home economics until 1966. In 1966 the family moved to Commerce, Texas where Hal pursued his doctorate at East Texas State University in Commerce. During those years, she taught in Royce City until the family moved to San Marcos, Texas, August 1968, where she began teaching in the San Marcos Consolidated School District. She retired from the district after serving as a curriculum director for a number of years.
She and her husband, spent later years supporting the Texas State University girls’ volleyball and softball programs. Very much service-oriented, they volunteered at Central Texas Medical Center in San Marcos and worked together as volunteers with the San Marcos Visitors’ Center. As First United Methodist Church members in San Marcos, she supported the church’s areas of service such as the Food Bank.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Hal Blythe, Sr. She is survived by a sister and brother-in-law, Loueva and Max Burrows; sister-in-law, Delilah Ann Davenport; two sons, Hal Tucker Blythe, Jr. and Gary Thomas Blythe; daughter-in-law, Alicia Blythe; fiancé to Gary, Kimberly Doran; four grandchildren, Allison Lowry, Heather Ritt, Trenton Blythe, and Thomas Blythe; six great-grandchildren, Adelaide, Hudson, Levi and Ella Lowry, Avery and Colton Ritt; and three nephews, Mark Davenport, Brian Burrows, and Gregory Burrows.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 11:00 AM, January 25 at the First United Methodist Church in San Marcos, with the Rev. Jarrell Sharp officiating. It was her wishes that any memorial donations would be to the American Heart Association.
Arrangements under the care and guidance of Pennington Funeral Home, 323 N. Comanche, San Marcos, TX, 78666, (512) 353-4311. Obituary and guestbook online at www.penningtonfuneralhome.com.
Iris was born to Chester and Mary Bumpers Kennedy of Quitman, Arkansas, January 3, 1931. After attending University of Central Arkansas she met and married Hal Blythe and moved to Odessa, Texas where she taught home economics until 1966. In 1966 the family moved to Commerce, Texas where Hal pursued his doctorate at East Texas State University in Commerce. During those years, she taught in Royce City until the family moved to San Marcos, Texas, August 1968, where she began teaching in the San Marcos Consolidated School District. She retired from the district after serving as a curriculum director for a number of years.
She and her husband, spent later years supporting the Texas State University girls’ volleyball and softball programs. Very much service-oriented, they volunteered at Central Texas Medical Center in San Marcos and worked together as volunteers with the San Marcos Visitors’ Center. As First United Methodist Church members in San Marcos, she supported the church’s areas of service such as the Food Bank.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Hal Blythe, Sr. She is survived by a sister and brother-in-law, Loueva and Max Burrows; sister-in-law, Delilah Ann Davenport; two sons, Hal Tucker Blythe, Jr. and Gary Thomas Blythe; daughter-in-law, Alicia Blythe; fiancé to Gary, Kimberly Doran; four grandchildren, Allison Lowry, Heather Ritt, Trenton Blythe, and Thomas Blythe; six great-grandchildren, Adelaide, Hudson, Levi and Ella Lowry, Avery and Colton Ritt; and three nephews, Mark Davenport, Brian Burrows, and Gregory Burrows.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 11:00 AM, January 25 at the First United Methodist Church in San Marcos, with the Rev. Jarrell Sharp officiating. It was her wishes that any memorial donations would be to the American Heart Association.
Arrangements under the care and guidance of Pennington Funeral Home, 323 N. Comanche, San Marcos, TX, 78666, (512) 353-4311. Obituary and guestbook online at www.penningtonfuneralhome.com.
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