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DATE: THURSDAY, November 18, 1993                   TAG: 9311180210
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   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.



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