{"id":3970,"date":"2016-04-18T13:13:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=3970"},"modified":"2025-03-30T14:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T19:51:17","slug":"obituary-kennedy-ivan-lynn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/?page_id=3970","title":{"rendered":"Obituary &#8211; Kennedy, Ivan Lynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_third\"><img src=\"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1908_Kennedy_Ivan.jpg\" alt=\"Ivan Lynn Kennedy\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Class of 1908<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"two_third last_column\">\n<h1>Ivan Lynn Kennedy<\/h1>\n<h3>April 13, 1888 &#8211; October 23, 1973<\/h3>\n<p>Ivan L. Kennedy, 85, 815 Tenth street, died at 7:55 p.m. Tuesday at Perry Memorial hospital, which he entered Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Newton chapel. Officiating will be Rev. Don Harnden, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, assisted by a grandson of Kennedy, Ken Jerome of Benton, Ark. Burial will be in Grace Hill cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy was born April 13, 1888, in Frankfort, Kan. He came to Noble county with his parents and settled on a farm southeast of Perry. He was graduated from Perry high school and attended Oklahoma State university.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 10, 1912, he was married in Perry to Hazel Eby, who survives. He had served as a National Guard band director for the 158th field artillery and at one time conducted the Oklahoma City orchestra. He operated a tire shop in Perry until 1938, when he began operation of a skating rink. Kennedy was a 50-year member of Knight of Pythias lodge.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors in addition to his wife of the home address include one son, Robert, Shawnee; five daughters, Mrs. Warenne Harris, Canoga Park, Calif.; Mrs. Sam (June) Jerome, Gila Bend, Ariz.; Mrs. Ed (Marjorie) Talbot, Randolph Field, Texas; Mrs. Lowell ( Betty) Anderson, Prague; and Mrs. Mike (Donna) Golliver, Enid; one sister, Miss Sara Kennedy, Perry; 18 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial contributions may be made to the First Presbyterian church building fund.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-FullWidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28207,"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3970\/revisions\/28207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perryokalumni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}