Obit of Kennedy, Bessie Loraine - Love County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillo.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillo.com/ 16 Dec 2007 Return to Love County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/love/love.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Petrolia Cemetery--Petrolia TX Amarillo Globe News 31 Jul 1997 Bessie Loraine Kennedy PAMPA - Bessie Loraine Kennedy, 80, died Tuesday, July 29, 1997. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Mulkey-Mason Funeral Home Chapel at Denton with the Rev. Dorrance Manning, pastor of Lynn Avenue Pentecostal Holiness Church in Oklahoma City, officiating. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Friday in Petrolia Cemetery at Petrolia. Local arrangements were by CarmichaelWhatley Funeral Directors of Pampa. Mrs. Kennedy was born and raised in Denton County. She married the Rev. Ben Mitchell Kennedy in 1931 at Love County, Okla. He died in 1989. She moved to Pampa three years ago from Crowell. She was a member of Pentecostal Holiness Church. She also was preceded in death by a daughter, Roxie Martin, on July 22. Survivors include four daughters, Dorothy Morgan of Crowell, Georgia VonKanel and Annie Jean Conner, both of Pampa, and Venita Kennemer of Visalia, Calif.; three sons, Mitchell Kennedy of Fort Worth, Phanis Kennedy of Pampa and Doyle Kennedy of Sacramento, Calif.; a sister, Beatrice Weaver of Aubrey; 29 grandchildren; 80 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials be to Pampa Sheltered Workshop, P.O. Box 2808, Pampa, Texas 79066-2808; or the American Cancer Society c/o Essie Mae Walters, 1418 N. Dwight, Pampa, Texas 79065-3905. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Love County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/love/love.htm