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Obituary: Battle Creek Enquirer, 24 Jul 1994, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States.
Kenneth S. Kennedy Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Kenneth S. Kennedy, 76, of Port St. Lucie, Fla., a long-time Marshall resident, died Friday, July 22, 1994, in Oaklawn Hospital, Marshall, after being injured in a fall earlier in the day.
He was born Aug, 29, 1917, in Detroit to Paul and Marie (Aderman) Kennedy. He graduated from high school in Denver, Colo., and attended Lawrence Technological Institute in Detroit, studying engineering.
He worked for Eaton Manufacturing Co., Detroit, before being transferred to Marshall in 1944.
He founded and operated Kennedy Automatic Products in 1946. He sold the company to Aeroquip Corp. in 1966 and retired.
Mr. Kennedy was a founder of National Bank of Marshall (now Chemical Bank).
He was active in the National Screw Machine Association. He was a past president of Marshall Chamber of Commerce and served 17 years on the board of Oaklawn Hospital in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a former member of Marshall Rotary Club.
He enjoyed golf and was a member of Marshall Country Club and Club Med Sandpiper in Port St. Lucie.
Mr. Kennedy also enjoyed boating and achieved the Power Squadron rating of junior navigator. He was a competitive sailor in lighting class sailboats. He also enjoyed pleasure cruising on the Great Lakes and in Florida.
He was a commercially rated pilot and flew his own airplane for many years for business and pleasure. He and his wife traveled worldwide. They also traveled in their motor home, and he was a member of the Revconeers and Sand Dollar motor home clubs.
He married the former Louise Hubbard Alexander on Dec 28, 1963. She survives.
Also surviving are a daughter, Kathy Emery of Marysville; a son, David Kennedy of Port Huron; a step-daughter, Laura Alexander of Saline; a step-son, John Alexander of Toledo, Ohio; four grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; a sister, Vera Cavenaille of Springfield, Ill., several cousins, nieces and nephews.
Visitation: After noon today at Craig K. Kempf Funeral Home, Marshall, where the family will receive visitors from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Services: 11 a.m. Monday at the funeral home with the Rev. Ed Scully of St. James Episcopal Church, Albion, officiating.
Burial: Oakridge Cemetery.
Memorials: Leukemia Foundation or the American Cancer Society.
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Kenneth married Wilma Ann Bangerter, daughter of William Amil Bangerter and Nellie A. Kayner. (Wilma Ann Bangerter was born about 1920 in Canada
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Kenneth next married Naomi Louise Hubbard, daughter of Deville Harold Hubbard and Jessie Irene Johnston, on 28 Dec 1963. (Naomi Louise Hubbard was born on 10 May 1918 in Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, United States 7 and died on 28 Oct 2009 in Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, United States
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