BETTY JEAN KENNEDY PASSES AWAY

I have no idea why I can't copy the obituary from today's Post Dispatch, but here is the link:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/stltoday/obituary.aspx?n=betty-jean-kennedy&pid=185865904

I do not know any of the circumstances but we have had a local address for her for many years but I do not recall ever having heard from her.   Another of our classmates gone too soon.

Kennedy, Betty Jean passed away peacefully on June 17, 2017. Lifelong resident of the Kirkwood-Des Peres area and member of St. Peter's Catholic Church. Born on July 13, 1947, Betty was the beloved daughter of the late William F. Kennedy Sr. and the late Dorothy E. (Wolter) Kennedy of Kirkwood area; dear sister of William F. Kennedy Jr. (Nancy) of Wildwood and John J. Kennedy of Manchester; aunt of Kimberly Kennedy of Portland, OR; Christopher Kennedy of Colorado Springs, CO; and Sean Kennedy of Manchester. Dear cousin and friend. Betty's immediate family sends best wishes in her memory to residents of Concordia House in Kirkwood and the ICU-490 staff at Mercy Hospital in Creve Coeur. Services: Private graveside service and interment were June 20 at Resurrection Cemetery in Affton, MO. In lieu of cards or flowers, donations may be made to Equine Assisted Therapy, 3369 Hwy 109, Wildwood, MO 63038 or Wildlife Rescue Center, 1128 New Ballwin Road, Ballwin, MO 63021. boppchapel.com

Published in St. Louis Post-Dispatch on June 21, 2017

Print  |  View Guest Book  | 

Helpful Links

Additional Resources

• Send Funeral Flowers
• Donate to Charity
• Read more local and National Obits

Find Advice & Support

• Funeral Etiquette
• How to Write a Sympathy Note
• Advice on Coping with Loss

 

Return to today's Obituaries for St. Louis Post-Dispatch

• Hide
• Share
• Twitter
• 
  
• Email

- See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/stltoday/obituary.aspx?n=betty-jean-kennedy&pid=185865904#sthash.DVzchbP8.dpuf

Kennedy, Betty Jean passed away peacefully on June 17, 2017. Lifelong resident of the Kirkwood-Des Peres area and member of St. Peter's Catholic Church. Born on July 13, 1947, Betty was the beloved daughter of the late William F. Kennedy Sr. and the late Dorothy E. (Wolter) Kennedy of Kirkwood area; dear sister of William F. Kennedy Jr. (Nancy) of Wildwood and John J. Kennedy of Manchester; aunt of Kimberly Kennedy of Portland, OR; Christopher Kennedy of Colorado Springs, CO; and Sean Kennedy of Manchester. Dear cousin and friend. Betty's immediate family sends best wishes in her memory to residents of Concordia House in Kirkwood and the ICU-490 staff at Mercy Hospital in Creve Coeur. Services: Private graveside service and interment were June 20 at Resurrection Cemetery in Affton, MO. In lieu of cards or flowers, donations may be made to Equine Assisted Therapy, 3369 Hwy 109, Wildwood, MO 63038 or Wildlife Rescue Center, 1128 New Ballwin Road, Ballwin, MO 63021. boppchapel.com

Published in St. Louis Post-Dispatch on June 21, 2017

Print  |  View Guest Book  | 

Helpful Links

Additional Resources

• Send Funeral Flowers
• Donate to Charity
• Read more local and National Obits

Find Advice & Support

• Funeral Etiquette
• How to Write a Sympathy Note
• Advice on Coping with Loss

 

Return to today's Obituaries for St. Louis Post-Dispatch

• Hide
• Share
• Twitter
• 
  
• Email

- See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/stltoday/obituary.aspx?n=betty-jean-kennedy&pid=185865904#sthash.DVzchbP8.d

HAPPY 52ND ANNIVERSARY KHS65

Happy Anniversary to KHS65! We sure have had, for the most part, an amazing adulthood haven't we? Fifty-two years is a long time, and so many of us have accomplished amazing things, borne amazing off-spring, served our families, our employers and our country to make ourselves valuable members of society. I say HERE HERE to US and send a yellow rose of friendship to remember our class and all our friends, especially those no longer able to celebrate with us. Have a great day and try to take a bit of time to wander thru your memory book of those days and our graduation day. My memories are very clear and I always enjoy pulling them out, especially on June 10th.

TALENTED CLASSMATES - ALAN YOUNT A DEDICATED KHS65 MEMBER SHARES

I'm soliciting articles for my blog from our many many talented classmates.  Alan Yount's amazing poetry writing, 106 published so far, has given me the idea to see who else out there is staying creative in our 70s!  HA, what a title that is...ugh.  Alan and I share an interest in several things, genealogy among them.  I particularly like this poem and you will likely see why.  Thanks Alan for sharing!!! And happy 70th to Alan on June 6th!  [Which is not only the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Midway, but would have been my parents' 75th wedding anniversary.]

HAVING,  THE  SAME  DREAM,  TWICE

          “You can’t have the same dream twice:

          it’s impossible”---An old saying.

climbing the creaking stairs

to my great-great grandparents house,

I had found in fayette, missouri:

in the same dream,

over & over, when I reach …

the top of the stairs:

in their old victorian house,

where they grew up and lived:

their house is suddenly

gone … it is, there, no more.

and they are long gone, yet repeated

in my dreams and primal memory:

for a reason, also related, for forever.

you are my great-great  grandparents

your blood

is in mine.

for some reason, which you can figure:

your house, is also

locked in my memory, forever.

 

Postscript:

An interesting irony. In the early 1970’s I had been in their house, after it had been abandoned for many years. It was years later, after studying genealogy, that I found out they were related to me. They were actually my great-great grandparents.  By 1975, sadly the grand old house had fallen in, into ruin. Their house was the Thomas Carr  and Lavinia Boggs house, called “Fairview.”  It was between New Franklin, Mo. and Fayette, Mo., and could be seen from Highway Five, for over 100 years.