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The Western Star, April 11, 1996.

Louisa H. Kennedy

Louisa H. Kennedy, 94, died Apr. 8, 1996, at Minneola District Hospital.

She was born Apr. 27, 1901, at Wilmore, to Felix and Martha McMillen. A Greensburg resident from 1953 to 1995, when she moved to Hilltop House in Bucklin, she was a homemaker and a housekeeper for the Kiowa County Memorial Hospital for 13 years.

She was a member of the First Christian Church Royal Neighbors Lodge and Sunflower Extension Homemakers Unit, all at Greensburg, and a member of the Order of Eastern Star in Coldwater.

On Mar. 16, 1921, she married William Henry Kennedy at Wilmore. He died Sept. 20, 1953.

Survivors include: a son, Harold of Mulvane, Albuquerque, N. M., Thelma Retzlaff and Sarah Schmidt, both of Greensburg, and Mary Dorothy Nicholson of Wichita; two sisters, Mary Gill of Fresno, Calif., and Flossie Trummel of Coldwater; 11 grandchildren; 17 great grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral is at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 11, 1996, at First Christian Church in Greensburg, with Rev. Keith Dellenbach presiding. Burial will be in Wilmore Cemetery.

Memorials may be sent to the Kiowa County health Foundation for the Dr. Gene Cannata Clinic, or to First Christian Church, both in care of Fleener Funeral Home in Greensburg.

Also see:

Alice Grace (McMillen) Atteberry, sister of Louisa Helen (McMillen) Kennedy.

William Henry Kennedy, husband of Louisa Helen (McMillen) Kennedy.

Felix Martin McMillen, father of Louisa Helen (McMillen) Kennedy.

Martha Ellen (Rapp) Hopkins McMillen, mother of Louisa Helen (McMillen) Kennedy.

Pvt. Martin McMillen, US Army, brother of Louisa Helen (McMillen) Kennedy.

Clarice E. (McMillen) Fry, sister of Louisa Helen (McMillen) Kennedy.

Flossie Melissa (McMillen) Trummel, sister of Louisa Helen (McMillen) Kennedy.

Hazel Ellen Hopkins, daughter of Martha Hopkins; step-daughter of Felix McMillen; half-sister of Louisa Helen (McMillen) Kennedy.

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