Mary Ann Kennedy
September 16, 1927 — November 12, 2016
Mary Ann Kennedy peacefully passed away on Saturday, November 12, 2016. She was 89 years old.
Mary was born on September 6, 1927 in Stary Tekov, a rural farming community in the Levice District of western Slovakia. Her parents were Karol and Marta (Gelen) Mesaros; Mary was the youngest of three children born in Slovakia. Like many eastern Europeans, Karol immigrated to the US in the early 1930's. He found work in the New Jersey Zinc Company smelting plant in Palmerton, Pennsylvania. Marta and her 3 daughters, Rose, Anna, and Mary, joined Karol in 1934 when Mary was 7 years old. The family settled in Palmerton, and two more children, Stanley and Helen, were born in the US.
Mary thrived in the US education system, graduating valedictorian from the Stephen S. Palmer High School in 1946. She became the first person in her family to obtain a college degree. She received a B.A. in Sociology from Roosevelt University in Chicago in September 1951. At Roosevelt she met her soon-to-be husband, Winston Kennedy, a Chicago native. They raised a family in the south-side of Chicago and divorced in 1974. In 2002, Mary left Chicago to live in Suffolk, Virginia, to be near her youngest child Robert, and his family. She lived there for the remainder of her life.
Mary was a homemaker. She loved her children and grandchildren, and never missed an opportunity to attend their games or school events. She was also active in the First Unitarian-Universalist Church and enjoyed cooking, gardening, reading and shopping the sales in the Chicago Loop.
Mary is survived by her brother Stanley Mesaros of Palmerton, Pennsylvania, sister Helen Shoberi of Lakeland, Florida, daughters Pat (Len Paur) and Pamela (David Lauchmen), and sons Tom (Felice Apter) and Robert (Maggie); grandchildren, Devon, Kyle, Ashleigh, Cory, Cameron, Tatiana, and Lena.
Services: 2:00 p.m., Saturday, November 19, 2016 at Campton Funeral Home, 525 Delaware Avenue, Palmerton, PA 18071. Call, 1:00-2:00 p.m., Saturday in the funeral home.
Interment will be at Sacred Heart Old Cemetery, 3rd Street, Palmerton, PA 18071.
Contributions may be made in her memory to the charity of one's choice.
Mary was born on September 6, 1927 in Stary Tekov, a rural farming community in the Levice District of western Slovakia. Her parents were Karol and Marta (Gelen) Mesaros; Mary was the youngest of three children born in Slovakia. Like many eastern Europeans, Karol immigrated to the US in the early 1930's. He found work in the New Jersey Zinc Company smelting plant in Palmerton, Pennsylvania. Marta and her 3 daughters, Rose, Anna, and Mary, joined Karol in 1934 when Mary was 7 years old. The family settled in Palmerton, and two more children, Stanley and Helen, were born in the US.
Mary thrived in the US education system, graduating valedictorian from the Stephen S. Palmer High School in 1946. She became the first person in her family to obtain a college degree. She received a B.A. in Sociology from Roosevelt University in Chicago in September 1951. At Roosevelt she met her soon-to-be husband, Winston Kennedy, a Chicago native. They raised a family in the south-side of Chicago and divorced in 1974. In 2002, Mary left Chicago to live in Suffolk, Virginia, to be near her youngest child Robert, and his family. She lived there for the remainder of her life.
Mary was a homemaker. She loved her children and grandchildren, and never missed an opportunity to attend their games or school events. She was also active in the First Unitarian-Universalist Church and enjoyed cooking, gardening, reading and shopping the sales in the Chicago Loop.
Mary is survived by her brother Stanley Mesaros of Palmerton, Pennsylvania, sister Helen Shoberi of Lakeland, Florida, daughters Pat (Len Paur) and Pamela (David Lauchmen), and sons Tom (Felice Apter) and Robert (Maggie); grandchildren, Devon, Kyle, Ashleigh, Cory, Cameron, Tatiana, and Lena.
Services: 2:00 p.m., Saturday, November 19, 2016 at Campton Funeral Home, 525 Delaware Avenue, Palmerton, PA 18071. Call, 1:00-2:00 p.m., Saturday in the funeral home.
Interment will be at Sacred Heart Old Cemetery, 3rd Street, Palmerton, PA 18071.
Contributions may be made in her memory to the charity of one's choice.
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