Ethel Rosella Butler Kennedy (1908-1993)

Ethel Rosella Butler Kennedy

Birth

22 Feb 1908

Leedey, Dewey County, Oklahoma, USA

Death

24 Nov 1993 (aged 85)

Winfield, Cowley County, Kansas, USA

Burial

Highland Cemetery

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Wichita Eagle - November 27, 1993

Kennedy, Ethel R., 85, retired licensed practical nurse, died Wednesday, Nov. 24, 1993. Service 2 p.m. today, Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home.

Survivors: husband, Virgil; sons, David of Conway, Ark., Robert of Albany, Ga.; daughters, Laura Bost of Goddard, Shirley Bradford of Rose Hill, Linda Crabb of Hutchinson; sister, Jewel Sharp of Walla Walla, Wash.; 14 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild. Memorial has been established with Grace United Methodist Church.∼Daughter of John William Butler &
Lilly Isabella "Belle" Bolender m. 1895 CO
One of eight children;
4 sisters & 3 brothers
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1896 Mary Belle (Lindsey)***see below
1898 Dora Charity
1899 Sarah Ellen "Sadie" (Wilson)***see below
1902 Jessie L.**see below
1906 John Daniel d. 1963
1910 Jewel Orrie (Sharp)***see below
1913 Walter Eugene # 62763524

Note***
Her father previously married;
Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Sanders
Two half-siblings;
1 half-sister & 1 half-brother
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189? Leroy Butler***see below
1893 Lillie Edith (Fisher)***see below

Note***
Lillie is often identified as the daughter of Lilly, while she is in fact the daughter of Lizzie...her mother died while giving birth to her. Her father remarried two years later.

Married Virgil Oswald Kennedy
22 Feb 1926
Mother of five children;
3 daughters & 2 sons
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1929 David
1931 Laura I. (Bost)
1935 Shirley J. (Bradford)
1937 Robert
1946 Linda Sue (Crabb)

Obituary Wichita Eagle (KS) Thurs, 25 Nov 1993
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Kennedy, Ethel R., 85, retired licensed practical nurse, died Wednesday, Nov. 24, 1993.

Survivors: husband, Virgil; sons, David of Conway, Ark., Robert of Albany, Ga.; daughters, Laura Bost of Goddard, Shirley Bradford of Rose Hill, Linda Crabb of Hutchinson; sister, Jewel Sharp of Walla Walla, Wash.; 14 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild.

Service 2 p.m. Saturday, Swisher-Taylor & Morris Funeral Home.
Memorial has been established with Grace United Methodist Church.