Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 17, 1993 TAG: 9311170264
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
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OBIT KENNETT, ALICE W.
KENNETT, Alice W., 88, died Saturday, November 13, 1993 at a local
hospital. She was born on November 18, 1904, at 375 Allison Avenue SW,
Roanoke, Va. in an area now known as the Southwest Historical District of the
City of Roanoke. Upon her marriage, she moved to 373 Allison Avenue on family
land next door to her ancestral home and continued living there until her
death except from 1925-1930, she resided in Atlanta , Georgia and Miami,
Florida (when her two oldest children were born). Mrs. Kennett was predeceased
by her husband of sixty-three years, J. Holliday Kennett, a pioneer certified
public accountant in the Roanoke area and also predeceased by her eldest
daughter, Archer Kennett Kennedy. She is survived by a son, John H. Kennett
Jr., of Roanoke; a daughter, Ellen Kennett Clements, of Colonial Heights, Va.;
six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren. She was a life long member and
very devoted to the Second Presbyterian Church in Roanoke where her father and
her husband were each members of its Board of Deacons and church treasurers.
In the early days of that church, her father was also the volunteer choir
director and church organist. Mrs. Kennett was also active in the Margaret
Lynn Lewis Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a member of
the Board of Director of the former Mary Louise Home sponsored by the King's
Daughters. A memorial service will be held at the Second Presbyterian Church
on Saturday, November 20, 1993 at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, the family
request donations to the Second Presbyterian Church Memorial Fund.
by CNB