Malcolm Kerr died 1956

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Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall (email)
Date: 7/25/2006 at 05:46:54

Malcolm Kerr Dies
College Park, Md., May 17 (AP) - Malcolm H. Kerr, professor of animal husbandry at the University of Maryland and nationally known livestock judge, died late yesterday. He was 55. A native of Postville, Iowa, he received his undergraduate and masters degrees at Iowa State at Ames. Recently he spent six months in British Guiana as a swine specialist. He was a national vice-president of the Block and Bridle Club. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at Hyattsville. Survivors include his widow, two sons, Burton and David Kerr, and a daughter Janet, all of Hyattsville.

-Frederick Post, May 18, 1956 (Maryland)

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A longer obit - added by Mary Durr Oct 24, 2009

Malcolm H. Kerr, professor of animal husbandry at the University of Maryland, and nationally known livestock judge, died Wednesday at the National Institutes of Health, Washington, D. C., of a kidney disease. He was 55.

Professor Malcolm H. Kerr, 55, 4306 Tuckerman street, University Park, died on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 16, at the National Institute of Health following an extended illness.

A member of the University of Maryland's Department of Animal Husbandry for the past nine years, Professor Kerr was born in Postville, Iowa, on November 7, 1901. He was graduated with a bachelor's degree in Animal Husbandry from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, in 1925, and later received his Masters Degree from that college. He also took post-graduate work at the University of Minnesota.

Mr. Kerr worked in various fields of Animal Husbandry, serving at the Mission School at Marion, Alabama; the Navaho Indian School at Ganado, Arizona; as 4-H Club Agent in Lee County, Iowa; and in the Animal Husbandry Department of Berea College, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Tennessee.

During his last year of active service at the University of Maryland Professor Kerr spent six months as Swine Extension Specialist in British Guiana.

He was a member of the Riverdale Presbyterian Church of Hyattsville, where he served as deacon and elder.

Mr. Kerr is survived by his wife, Mrs. Esther Kerr; two sons, Burton and David; a daughter, Janet; and a granddaughter, all of Hyattsville; a sister, Mrs. H. F. Benson of Marshalltown, Iowa; and a brother, Kenneth, of Postville, Iowa.

Funeral services were held at the Riverdale Presbyterian Church on Friday, May 18. Burial was in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping, hand dated 1956, from my mother's obituary collection.

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