Kennedy, Kay Frances (Keevert)Temple

wife of Robert F Kennedy   divorced wife of Vernon DeeTemple

Burial Date:  2017,  03/24          Age: 81           Lot: 1182 F

Kay F. Kennedy

AGE:   81 yrs

DATE OF DEATH:  March 21, 2017

PLACE OF DEATH: Presbyterian Manor, Sterling

DATE OF BIRTH: September 26, 1935

PLACE OF BIRTH: Hays, Kansas

PARENTS: Paul V. & Beulah E. Samms Keevert

RESIDENCE: Sterling since 1965

OCCUPATION: She was a sales clerk at Sergeants’  Department Store, a secretary at the United Methodist Church and later an employee of Sterling College for 21 years at the Kelsey Library then Mabee Library.

EDUCATION: She graduated from Lyons High School in 1953, Sterling College in 1976 with a Bachelor Degree in English.

MEMBERSHIPS:  United Methodist Church, Past President United Methodist Women and member of Willing Workers/Friendship Circle; Past President of Silver Threads SeniorAssociation; Past Noble Grand Matron Rebekah Lodge # 172; Past President Rice County Women’s Thrift Shop, Lyons; Past President Kansas Library Operant’s Association; Past Leader in Girls Scouts and Blue Birds; Sterling Representative to Rice County Council on Aging

She married Vernon Dee Temple they later divorced.  She married Robert F. Kennedy on December 21, 1962, in Lyons.

Survivors are her husband Robert of the home;   Sons Stephen D. Temple, Wichita,  Kerby J. Kennedy, Sterling;  Daughters, Kara L. Temple Johnson & husband Bryce, El Dorado; Emily Ann Kennedy Gillespie & husband Chris, Sterling, Kala Kennedy Wright & husband Phillip, Spiro, OK., Karen Kennedy Buccella & husband Dennis, Greenwood, ARK.,   half-sister, Edith Krepps, Winfield, KS.; 18 Grandchildren; 24 Great-Grandchildren.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY  Parents; Daughter, Elizabeth K. Temple; Brother, Roy Allen Keevert

SERVICES: 2:00 P.M., Friday, March 24, 2017, at United Methodist Church, Sterling

OFFICIATING: Rev. Jeff Miller, Rev. Bob Baer, Pastor Kendal Connor

BURIAL: Sterling Community Cemetery, Sterling

VISITATION: 2:00 to 7:00 P.M. Thursday, March 23, 2017 at Birzer Funeral Home, Sterling, with family present 5:00 to 7:00 P.M.

MEMORIAL: P.B.S. or United Methodist Church in care of Birzer Funeral Home, Sterling