Phyllis I. (Meints) KENNEDY

KENNEDY, GRUIS, MEINTS, MESTAD, DIEGER, MARSHALL, ANDERSON, HADDY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/16/2009 at 11:23:30

December 22, 2005
Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa

CLEAR LAKE , IA- Phyllis I. Kennedy, 83, of 401 S. Ninth St. in Clear Lake, died Monday (Dec. 19, 2005) at the IOOF Home in Mason City. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Friday at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake, with the Rev. Derik Yarian of Zion Lutheran Church officiating. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Mason City. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel and one hour prior to services on Friday. Family suggests memorials to the Phyllis Kennedy Memorial Fund.

Phyllis was born Nov. 5, 1922, in Meservey, Iowa, the daughter of Alfred and Pauline (Gruis) Meints. She attended school in Meservey. Following high school she worked at the defense plant in Chicago. Phyllis married Leonard "Dude" Kennedy on Dec. 27, 1946, in Meservey, Iowa. She enjoyed bowling, traveling, working in her yard, walking, doing puzzles and watching the school buses go by. She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church, Clear Lake, and the Clear Lake VFW Auxiliary.

Phyllis is survived by her three children, Sharon Mestad and her husband, Lynn, of Clear Lake, Karen Kennedy of Sparks, Nev., and Wendy Kennedy of Arvada, Colo.; one granddaughter, Kim Mestad of Clear Lake; two brothers, Jerry Meints and his wife, Luster, of Greenwood, S.C., and Gene Meints of Chicago, Ill.; two sisters, Shirley Dieger and her husband, Bill, of Belmond, and LaVonne Meints of Clear Lake; and five sisters-in-law, Minnie Meints of Texas, Ruth Meints, Luella Marshall, Lucille Anderson and her husband, Carroll, and Lorene Haddy; and a brother-in-law, Lloyd Kennedy and his wife, Sally, all of Clear Lake. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, infant brother and sister and two brothers, Donald and Ardell Meints.