THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, October 30, 1995 TAG: 9510300009
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: FINAL
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Dr. Kenneth Howard Garren, 82, a resident of The Village at Woods Edge at 1401 North High St., died Sunday, Oct. 29, 1995, at Southampton Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Garren was born in Asheville, N.C., and was a former resident of Holland, Va. He was the son of the late Samuel M. and Annie Beaity Garren. Dr. Garren was a Navy veteran of World War II, serving as a Lt.j.g. aboard the USS Nimitz in the Pacific theater. He was a 1935 graduate of Duke University and received his doctorate degree in 1938 in plant and forest pathology. He had retired as department head of the USDA Research Station in Holland. Dr. Garren had traveled worldwide as a consultant on plant diseases and had received the National Peanut Growers Association's most important Peanut Researcher Award. He was an honorary member of the faculty of VPI, former president of the Holland Ruritan Club and member of Holland Christian Church.
Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Lena Oates Garren; one daughter, Kenna Garren Doremus and her husband Chuck of Lynchburg, Va.; three grandsons, Garren, Todd and Ross Doremus.
A graveside service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Holland Cemetery by the Rev. L.T. Wilkins. The family will receive friends at Wright Funeral Home from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today and suggests that memorials be made to the American Cancer Society, c/o Mrs. Ruth Petty, 116 Southampton Road, Franklin, Va. 23851.
KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY
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