Location: D-Ladd

Born: September 17, 1906 China Spring, McLennan County, Texas

Died: January 6, 1950 Waco, McLennan County, Texas

Son of Ben L. Kennedy and Lucy Boyd Kennedy

Parents:
Ben L Kennedy (1869 – 1920)
Lucy Boyd Kennedy (1874 – 1939)

Joe Bailey Kennedy, 43, died suddenly at 9 a.m. Friday at his home, 906 North Sixteenth Street.

Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Compton’s Chapel, the Rev. C.E. Wade officiating, burial in China Spring Cemetery.

Survivors: one son, Pat Kennedy of Waco; one sister, Mrs. Emmanuel E. Pardo of Austin; three nieces, Miss Frances Kennedy of China Spring; Mrs. Dorothy Garrett of Dallas, and Miss Susane Pardo of Austin; one nephew, Lynn Kennedy of Waco.

Active pallbearers: Joe Taylor, Pete Pederson, Claude McCauley, David Brock, Billy Hall, Sam Taylor, Alton Koen.

Honorary pallbearers will be employees of the Administrative Division of the Veterans Administration and all friends.

Mr. Kennedy was born in China Spring and has lived in the vicinity of Waco all his life. He was a World War II veteran and was employed by the Veteran’s Administration.