Kennedy, Lee (1879-1924)

KENNEDY, MCCOMB

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 4/15/2015 at 12:45:47

Webster City Daily News, Monday, November 10, 1924

Young Kamrar Farmer Passes Away Suddenly

Lee Kennedy, Forty-five Years Old, Dies at 2 O'clock Yesterday Morning - Had Been at Usual Work on Saturday - Leaves Wife and Five Children

The Kamrar community was shocked yesterday morning to learn that Lee Kennedy, a farmer forty-five years of age, living three and one-half miles north of Kamrar had passed away very suddenly at 2 o'clock Sunday morning of heart failure. He had been afflicted with leakage of the heart for the past seventeen years but had been about his usual duties last week and husked corn on Saturday.

Mr. Kennedy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kennedy, well known long-time residents of the Kamrar neighborhood, Mr. Kennedy preceding his son in death about a year ago. He was born in DeWitt county, Illinois, July 16, 1879, and came to Hamilton county with his parents when two years old. He has lived near Kamrar ever since.

On March 22, 1905, he was united in marriage with Miss Rachel McComb, daughter of Mrs. Kate McComb, of this city, and five children were born, all of whom, with the wife and mother, survive. They are: Kenneth, Warren, J., Zola and Marvin. Six brothers also survive and their names are: John, of Sioux City; R. D. of Galt; Oscar, of Dexter, Minn.; Will, of Clarion; Otto and Glen, both of Kamrar. His mother, Mrs. J. B. Kennedy, of Kamrar, also survives her son.

The funeral services will be held at the family home tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock and at 1:30 o'clock at the Methodist church in Kamrar, conducted by Rev. J. H. Farnham, of Pomeroy, a former pastor of the church in Kamrar. Interment will take place in Graceland cemetery in this city.