Ethel Glee (Morlan) Kinkennon (2002)

KINKENNON, WRIGHT, MORLAN, MEYER, SHARP, DIXON, MILLARD, KENNEY, CARPENTER, DAVIS, ROGERS, FINLEY

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Date: 7/6/2007 at 08:27:14

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
February 27, 2002

Ethel G. Kinkennon, Jefferson

Ethel Glee Kinkennon, 90, died Feb. 18, 2002 at the Centers for Longterm Care (CLC) in Jefferson.

Funeral services were held Thursday, Feb. 21 at the Church of Christ in Jefferson with Bruce R. Webster officiating. Burial was at Wright cemetery in Jefferson.

Ethel Kinkennon was born Jan. 6, 1912 to Clyde Richard and Elizabeth (Wright) Morlan of rural Scranton. She attended school at Kendrick township school No. 9. On July 22, 1930 she married Frank Samuel Kinkennon in Adel. They began their married life farming near Scranton and later in the Winterset area. In 1974 they moved to Bayard. In 1998, Ethel moved to Scranton. In October of 1999, due to failing health, she moved to the CLC in Jefferson. She was a member of the Church of Christ.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, an infant daughter, a brother and a sister.

She is survived by two sons, Samuel Kinkennon (wife Ruby) of Ramona, Okla., and Donald Kinkennon (wife Joyce) of Jefferson; three daughters, Louise Meyer (husband Milton) of Montgomery, Minn., Pauline Sharp of Escondido, Calif., and Linda Dixon (husband Ernest) of Knoxville; two brothers, Richard Morlan (wife Audrey) of Scranton and Leonard Morlan (wife Becky) of Lohrville; six sisters, Mary Millard of Jefferson, Opal Olson of Buffalo, Wyo., Lucille Kenney (husband Ralph) of Grand Junction, Zelpha Carpenter (husband Merle) of Ames, Donna Davis husband (Gerald) of Fort Dodge, and Lilly Rogers (husband B. J.) of Eugene, Ore.; a sister-in-law, Joan Morlan of Evansville, Ind.; a brother-in-law, Milo Finley of Wichita, Kan.; 14 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.