Candus Marie Leas ¹

  General Notes:

Carole Lynn (MOHNEY) CARR, Volunteer Transcriber
Transcribed from an original newspaper clipping from the "Sturgis Daily Journal, " which serves the St. Joseph County, Michigan area. Copy provided by the Sturgis Library, Sturgis, Michigan.

LaGrange, Ind.; Candus Marie KENNEDY, 98, Country Side Apartments, died Dec. 22, 1987, at the LaGrange Hospital.

She was born May 28, 1889, in Hudson, a daughter of John and Lydia (FREDERICK) LEAS.

On March 21, 1917, she married Valentine E. KENNEDY in Waterloo. He died in 1974.

She was a member of the LaGrange United Methodist Church the Church Circle.

Surviving are two sons, John KENNEDY, LaGrange and Maurice KENNEDY, Carthage, Ill., one daughter-in-law; 13 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two sons, Lloyd, in 1985 and Alfred in 1960.

Relatives and friends may call from 9-11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Carney-Frost Funeral Home, LaGrange, where services are at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. The Rev. Vaughn E. Powell will officiate. Burial will be in Circle Cemetery, Hudson.

Memorials may be directed to the LaGrange United Methodist Church Building Fund.

  Noted events in her life were:

• United States Census: Resided, 1900, Salem Township, Steuben County, Indiana, USA.

• United States Census: Resided, 1910, Salem Township, Steuben County, Indiana, USA.

• United States Census: Residence, 1920, Waterloo, Dekalb County, Indiana, USA.

Candus married Valentine E. Kennedy, son of John Ellsworth Kennedy and Elizabeth Johnston, on 21 Mar 1917 in Dekalb County, Indiana, USA. (Valentine E. Kennedy was born on 21 May 1890 in Marion County, Ohio, USA, died on 7 Nov 1974 in Lagrange, Lagrange County, Indiana, USA ² and was buried in Circle Cemetery, Hudson, Steuben County, Indiana, USA ³.)