Nowata Oklahoma Obits

Nowata Oklahoma Obits

Audrey B. (Welliver) Kennedy

Audrey Kennedy
Audrey B. (Welliver) Kennedy, 90, a Nowata resident, died Thursday evening at her home east of Nowata.
Graveside services will be 4 p.m. Monday in Nowata Memorial Park Cemetery with the Rev. Jim Winslow officiating. Interment will be in Nowata Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Benjamin Funeral Service, Nowata.

Mrs. Kennedy was born on Oct. 30, 1903, in Appleton City, Mo., to John Clinton and Martha Jane Cluck Welliver. She married DeWitt T. Kennedy on March 11, 1928, in Butler. Mo.

Mr. Kennedy was the son of R.Y. Kennedy, former mayor of Coffeyville, Kan. After their marriage. they moved to a farm ½ mile east of Nowata, where they have lived since that time. She was a homemaker.
She was a member of First Christian Church in Nowata and Loyal Neighbors Home Extension Club (now Twin Bridges), where she served in several offices, including president. She was a recipient of the 55 year plaque. She was past president of Nowata City Council; volunteer librarian at Nowata City-County Library for 25 years and treasurer of the committee that created the Nowata County Historical Society, which created the Historical Museum. She gathered information and artifacts for and created the Extension Homemakers' Room at the museum in 1980.
Survivors include a daughter. Jayne Sweger, of Nowata: three grandchildren: Mrs. Terry J. (Gretchen) Collins of Tulsa, Tsgt. Dale L. Sweger, USAF, of Great Falls, Mont., and Mrs. James Richard (Loretta) Sweger Graham of Bartlesville.
She was preceded in death by her husband in October 1971; three brothers: Clyde Welliver, Carl Welliver and Fred Welliver, and two sisters: Nellie Fleming and Susan Woods.
Bartlesville Oklahoma Examiner-Enterprise, Friday, June 17, 1994 - Submitted by Jane Sweger, Transcribed by K. Torp
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D.T. Kennedy Dies at 77
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Benjamin Funeral Chapel for DeWitt Talmage Kennedy, 77, of Route 2, who died early Monday morning at the Nowata General Hospital.

Rev. LaVern Draper will officiate with interment in Nowata Memorial Park Cemetery.
Kennedy was born Oct 11, 1893 near Coffeyville, Kan. to R.Y. and Axaphia Brown Wink Kennedy. He was married to Audrey Welliver in Butler, Mo., March 11, 1928. They moved from Kansas to Nowata in 1928.
He was a member of the Coffeyville Presbyterian Church and was a veteran of World War I, serving with the U.S. Army. He was a farmer and had worked for Parkersburg Company at Coffeyville for 15 years.
Survivors include his wife, Audrey, of the home one daughter, Mrs. Lloyd (Jayne) Sweger of Talala; one brother, Maxon Kennedy of Eldorado, Kan.; three sisters, Mr.s W.J. McCoy, Coffeyville; Mrs. W.J. McCoy, Coffeyville; Mrs. Leah Patterson, Pittsburg, Kan.; Mrs. Charles Brooks, Newport News, Va; three grandchildren.
Monday October 4, 1971 - Submitted by Jane Sweger, Transcribed by K. Torp - Read BIO