KEHR, Mary Louise (Coon) 1911-2005

KEHR, COON, BRIGHAM, FLICK

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 12/5/2014 at 22:43:23

[Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Wednesday, April 13, 2005]

CEDAR FALLS - Mary Louise Kehr, 93, of Cedar Falls, formerly of Hendersonville, N.C., died Monday, April 11, 2005, at Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo, of heart failure.

She was born Sept. 14, 1911, in Laquin, Pa., daughter of Dr. Charles Melvin and Nellie Brigham Coon. Because her mother was ill with tuberculosis at the time of her birth, she was removed from the home at two weeks of age, to be raised by another family. She married August E. Kehr in 1943. He died in 2001.

Mrs. Kehr received a bachelors degree from Elmira College, Elmira, N.Y., in 1933; and a masters degree from Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., in 1934. She taught English, Latin and French in Unadilla, N.Y., from 1934 to 1943. She and her husband lived in Hudson, N.Y., Ithaca, N.Y., Baton Rouge, La., Ames, and Silver Springs, Md., retiring in 1979 to Hendersonville, moving to Cedar Falls in 2001.

Survivors include a daughter, Janet (Charles) Flick of Cedar Falls; two grandsons, Robert Flick of Shen Zhen, China, and William Flick of Huxley; and a great-granddaughter, McKenzie Flick of Huxley.

Preceded in death by a sister, Genevieve Coon.

There will be no visitation or services. Inurnment will be later in Evergreen Cemetery, Unadilla. Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Memorials may be directed to Pinecrest Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 421, Flat Rock, N.Y., 82731, in lieu of flowers.

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