Sunday, May 9, 2021

BERTHA KENNEDY WILSON PASSES AWAY


Bertha Marie Kennedy Wilson, Class of 1971, passed away.

 

Her parents were Mary Jane Masters Kennedy and William Jones, both deceased.

 

Sandy Kennedy Booth, her sister, posted:

 

My sweet friend earned her angel wings this morning. She is now free from the pain and suffering. Love you Bertha Wilson. I will miss your beautiful smile.”

 

Sandy is a 1986 Fairmont State graduate who lives in Worthington with her husband, Marshall Booth. Both attended Monongah High but graduated from North Marion after MHS merged with other Marion County schools in September 1979.

 

Their children Danny and Hannah attended Monongah Middle School. Hannah is a Registered Nurse in Charleston, South Carolina, and Danny is in pre-law in college.

 

Bertha and William Kennedy’s children are North Marion graduate Amanda Wilson of Katy, mother of Emberly, 13, and Mark Jones of Worthington who passed away in November 2020. “This left her broken-hearted till her death,” Sandy texted to me. Another granddaughter is Marie Jones Stemple of Boothsville.

 

Bertha’s siblings are Sandy and Bill Kennedy, who both live in Worthington. A brother, Larry Robert “Bob” Dixon, is deceased.

 

Bertha was part of the Fantastic Four Lions who traveled together to frolic in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, Sedona, Arizona, Key West, Cabo San Lucas, New York City and Ohio’s Amish country.

The others were Mary “Kitty” Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968, who lives on Lyndon Avenue in Monongah; Susan Ahouse Schrader, Class of 1971, who lives in Pittsburgh and Stoney Lonesome;  and Doris Carpenter Rogers, Class of 1971,  who lives in Charleston, West Virginia with husband Scott Rogers.

Bertha’s obituary:

Bertha Marie Wilson, 68, Monongah, passed away at her residence on Saturday, May 8, 2021.  She was born September 25, 1953 in Fairmont, a daughter of the late William Jones and Mary Jane Masters Kennedy.

 

Bertha loved her Celtic and Folk Lore music, crafts, painting on anything she could write her thoughts, prayers, poems on, rocks, slate, or paper, actually anything that didn’t move. She was so creative with everything she could use her imagination to create.  Only the people who loved her can understand this.  She loved playing the Dulcimer.  She was taught by the best….Patty Looman, having been a member of the group “The Dulcimer Dames.”  She loved people and could find the “good” in everyone she knew.  She especially loved Jesus, whom she became very close with over the last several months.

 

Bertha is survived by a daughter, Amanda Lee Wilson of Katy, 2 granddaughters, Marie Jones Stemple of Boothsville and Emberly Paige Coffman of Katy, a sister, Sandy Kennedy Booth (Bucky), and one brother, William J. Kennedy, (Bill) both of Worthington, several nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews, 2 sister-in-laws, Charlene and Debbie, and a special friend, Luther Michael of Mannington.

 

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her beloved son, Mark W. Jones (“Markie”) and her big brother, Larry Robert (Bob) Dixon.

 

The family would like to thank all the family and friends who came and sat with her and loved on her the last week on earth and the Hospice nurses and staff (her little angels)  who lovingly cared for her in her last days on earth, Courtnie, Corina, Katrina, Brenda, along with the extras

 

A celebration of life may be held at a later date. Cremation services have been entrusted to Hutson Funeral Home, Farmington. www.hutsonfuneralhomes.com


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