Charles Joseph "Chuck" Kennedy
Charles Joseph "Chuck" Kennedy, 89, of Hermiston, died Friday, Oct. 20, 2000, at Patti's Haven Adult Foster Home in Hermiston after four years of poor health.
At his request there will be no service. Disposition was by cremation and his ashes are to be scattered at his favorite hunting site later. A private family service will aslo be held later.
Mr. Kennedy was born Sept. 13, 1911, in Huntington County, Pa., to David and Anna Rhine Kennedy.
He came to Oregon as a young man and settled at Elgin, where the rest of his family lived.
He worked at logging in Alaska, Idaho, and Oregon, and also worked in the shipyards in Portland and Seattle.
He married Verna Graybeal in 1937, and in 1956 married Joan Anderson. In 1968 the Kennedys moved to Hermiston where he worked as a welder in irrigation in the Columbia Basin area before suffering a stroke in 1996.
Mr. Kennedy enjoyed hunting, fishing, bowling, and visiting with family and friends.
Survivors include his wife, Joan, of Hermiston; daughters, Sharlean Barton of Richland, Wash., Janice Dyer of Elgin, Glenda Sims of Pendleton, and Linda Sue Cummings of Hermiston; son, John Anderson of Pendleton; brother, Woodrow of Elgin; sisters, Ruth McClune of La Grande, and Thelma Oliver of Summerville, 19 grandchildren, 42, great- grandchildren, seven great-great-grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorial contributions may be made to a charity of choice.
Burns Mortuary of Hermston is in charge of arrangements.
East Oregonian 10/23/00