Harmon Ara Kennedy 1894 - 1963

KENNEDY, PALMER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/25/2023 at 21:07:25

Sioux City Journal
2 February 1963

Harmon Kennedy, Honored by Oto Legion, Stricken at Cafe; Dies

Harmon Ara Kennedy, 68, Oto, who was honored Wednesday night by Henry W. McKenna post 651, American Legion of Oto, died unexpectedly Friday at an Oto cafe after suffering a heart attacks.

He had received a 40-year pin for 43 consecutive years of membership in McKenna post at a special program recognizing the Handke brothers, also members of the Oto post.

Donald. P. Birkett of Dubuque, Iowa department commander, made the presentation at the Anthon-Oto junior high school building.

Mr. Kennedy was born June 11, 1894 at Panama, la. At the age of 4, he went with his parents to Humboldt, where the family resided until moving to Missouri five years later.

After serving in World War 1, he lived in the Ute, Mapleton, Danbury and Oto areas.

Since 1940, he made his home in the town of Oto.

Mr. Kennedy was a retired carpenter. He married Telma Palmer Augusts, 6, 1929 at Elk Point, S. D.

Survivors include the widow; four sons, Harmon Ellsworth, stationed with the army in Vietnam; David of Oto, and Lawrence and Frank, both of Council Bluffs; a daughter, Charlotte of Oto; four sisters, Mrs. Earl Tryon of Oto; Miss Gladys Kennedy of Denver, Colo., and Mrs. Alice Hamilton and Mrs. Henry Crippen, both of Sioux City; and five grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 1 p. m. Monday at the Walter funeral home in Mapleton. Rev. John Rogers, pastor of Oto's United Church of Christ at Oto, will officiate.

Burial will be in the Danbury cemetery with graveside military rites directed by McKenna post.