Kenneth Morrison Dodds

DODDS, MORRISON, KERR, PERRY, MOSIER, STARR, CROCKER, VERNAC

Posted By: Gloria Jean Dodds (email)
Date: 5/11/2002 at 06:12:27

Farmington - - Kenneth M. Dodds, 58, of Fort Smith, Ark, died at 1:15 p.m. Saturday in the Veterans Hospital at San Diego, Calif. Mr. Dodds was a former resident of Bonaparte. He was born in Van Buren county on Feb. 4, 1910. The son of Harry John Dodds and Minnie M. Morrison Dodds. He was first married to Eleanor Evelyn Ward who along with her baby girl passed away a year after they were married. He then married Violet Crocker. To this union were born 3 daughters. Dorothy Aileen Dodds Kerr, Gloria Jean Dodds, Kathryn Elaine Dodds. Ruby and Ken divorced in 1949. He then married Irene Vernac in 1951 and had a son named Kenneth Charles Dodds and a step daughter Charlene. Mr. Dodds was a retired Navy career man and had been a teacher at State College, Fort Smith, Ark, until December 1967.
Besides his wife surviving are his mother, Mrs. Minnie Dodds of Bonaparte, Miss Gloria Jean Dodds, Los Angeles, Calif., Miss Kathyn Elaine Dodds, Baldwin Park, Calif., one stepdaughter, Mrs. James (Charlene) Perry, Imperial Beach, Calif., two sisters, Mrs. Charles Mosier, Kearney, Neb., Mrs. Francis Starr, Clinton, Iowa, six grandchildren and two step grandchildrden. Funeral services and burial will be held in Balboa vet cem., San Diego Calif.