Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-04-03 | Page 6 | Funeral Services for Mrs. Kennedy

:fiei series FOR MRS. KEiEDY This afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Plrel Methodist KpfFCopnl rnurrli won held the funeral services of m. Knrir Patience Kennedy, mother of our I well known citfsens, O A. Kennrd and Miss Lota Kenndv. Mr. Kirk endall aotd as undertaker and funeral fu-neral director lis Vera Krey presided pre-sided al the orsnn and played the funeral fu-neral march as the proi esslon entered the church. Mrs Agnos Raasweller jsaiifc sleep in .lesus and "Nearer. My God to Thee Rev G. F Ra-s weiler preached a short sermon on the text, "Precious in the sight of Ihe Lord is the death of his saints." Pualm H, 1.", The following obituary was read: "Rose Patience rrmrl) was born December, 1 824 . at Willtamsport, Va , her father being Isaac French, a vet-con vet-con of thp war of 1812 anil her mother. mo-ther. Sarah Hawkins Her parents afterward located near Marietta, Ohio and there she was married in 1Mf to Benjamin R Kennedy who afterward became a Methodist minister. 'Their first chart" WSfl at Alliens Ohio. Afterward they Served In the rincK River conferenee Tennrsspe; I Blandlnvllie Buehnell, nmi cartage, 111.; later joining the nes Moines, (a., conference, they were stationed at Charlton, Norwood. Lueas Ottawa, Palmyra, indianoia. Norwalk, St Tharles. Mile and Yillisca In 1Rf0. Mr and Mrs. Kennedy moved lo I lh, where, in Ogden. ihe R' Kennedj pksaed to his reward, hi-- funeral I" ling the first to be held In the n' v MethodlSt church, after Its dedication. "In all the trials of pioneer work. Mrs Kennedy bore her liarc mth un-ratling un-ratling fortitude and, though for man J years bedfast, she exhibited remarkable remark-able Christian cheerfulness and good nature "She was the mother of seven children, chil-dren, four of whom died in lnfanc i Those living Bre C, K. Kennedy of Fairfield, Wash ; O A, Kennedy of Ogden, and Leota Kennedv of Ogden. Bhe Is also survived by lour grandchildren grand-children and six great grandchildren. nr