Obituary:  Russell B Kinnamon

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The Odessan, Odessa, Lafayette County, Missouri
publication date: 13 Aug 1964
Vol. 79 No 22, backpage

Russell Kinnamon, Former Odessan, Dies in Kansas City

Last rites were held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Blackman Chapel
in Kansas City, for Russell Kinnamon, 67, who died early
Thursday, August 6, at Trinity Lutheran Hospital after a
lengthy illness.

Officating at the service was the Rev. Dr. Cassius E.
Street, former pastor of the Linwood Methodist Church,
where Mr. Kinnamon had placed his membership, after
moving to Kansas City 24 years ago.

Virgil Woodside, soloist sang, "How Great Thou Art,"
"Jesus Savior Pilot Me," and "The Lord's Prayer."  
Graveside services were held  at the Odessa Cemetery.

Russell B., third child in the family of four of 
Sherman and Anna Hitchings Kinnamon, was born August
27, 1896, on a farm two miles southeast of Odessa.
He received his education in the Starr Rural School.

At an early age he united with the Methodist Episcopal
Church, where he was faithful in attendance at all of 
its services and served as Sunday School Superintendent
for 12 years.

He responded to the call of this county in World 
War I, serving until the signing of the Armistice. After
being honorably discharged he returned home to the 
occupation of farmin, later turning to salesmanship, 
which he continued until his health failed in October, 
1961.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Geneva Kinnamon of the home
in Kansas City; a son, Russell Howard Kinnamon, Raytown;
five daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Hildebrand, Hayward, Calif., 
Mrs. Rose Ellen Carter, Ft. Worth, Tex., Mrs. Marjorie
Round and Mrs. Marie Fizhugh, both of Fayette and Mrs.
Carol Ann Branic, Peculiar; a step-son John B. Sims, 
Kansas City; two sisters, Mrs. Charles Pallette and Mrs.
Homer Seuser, Odessa and 16 grandchildren.

He was proceded in death in 1939 by a son, Roger M. Kinnamon.