Memorial Services for Kerwin Kerr and Hank Kerr will be held on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008 (the day before the Reunion), at the Kerr homestead. For more information call 503-341-1046. Memorials to their sister Mary Alice Kerr McClain and Kerwin’s wife Winona Yap Kerr will also be dedicated at this time.
Memorials
July 13th, 2009IN MEMORIAM: Kerwin DeLore Kerr I
July 13th, 2009June 28, 1921-December 29, 2007
Kerwin DeLore Kerr I, age 86, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, died Saturday, December 29, 2007, after a lengthy illness. Kerwin, who previously lived at Boston, Kentucky, for many years, was born in Dayton, Oregon on June 28, 1921. He served as a Naval aviator and then a Marine Corp aviator. He was a veteran of World War II, the Korean War and served as engineer in the Vietnam War. He earned the rank of major in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves. He earned two distinguished flying crosses and six air medals, 14 decoration ribbons as well as badges for expert rifleman, expert pistol and sharpshooter carbine and the gold winds of a naval aviator. Kerwin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Oregon State University. He was retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and was a land surveyor. He served several terms as the county surveyor in Nelson County, Kentucky. Kerwin Sr. was the son of Henry Allen and Sylva Hewitt Kerr of McMinnville, Oregon and the widower of Winona Yap Kerr of Hilo, Hawaii, a former corporal in the Women Marines. He was an avid reader, motorcycle enthusiast and a gun collector. He was a volunteer with KY Mathcounts for junior high school students for many years. He was a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association and was a member of the National Professional Engineers Society. Survivors include his two brothers, William Henry Kerr of Ennis, Texas, and Jean and Kay Kerr of Lake Oswego, Oregon, and sister-in-law Irene Kerr of Texas; two sons, Kerwin D. Kerr II of Elizabethtown and Loren A. Kerr of Boston, KY; two daughters-in-law, Linda H. Kerr and Connie C. Kerr; three grandchildren, Eric A. and Jessica Kerr of St. Louis,MO, Jason M. Kerr of Elizabethtown, KY and Jessica L. Kerr of Radcliff, KY; and two great-grandchildren, Evelyn J. and Linda E. Kerr of St. Louis, MO.
Cremation was chosen. The funeral will be at the Kerr Family Homestead, McMinnville, Oregon.
Number of Hewitt Great Grandchildren Declining
July 13th, 2009From Don Rivara
In our April 2000 newsletter was an article about the living great grandchildren of Henry and Elizabeth Hewitt. At that time, there were 25 living great grandchildren.Eight years later, it appears there are 17 living, but some of those listed below may have passed without our knowledge.
During our research for this article, we discovered that Robert H. Tennant of Alameda, CA, a grandson of Matthew Hewitt has died. He was born 30 September 1916 and died 2 October 2007 at the age of 91.
[Mary Cooper Matheny > Elizabeth Hewitt > Matthew Hewitt > Bertha Hewitt Tennant > Robert Tennant]
He was the last surviving child of Bertha Tennant.
Others who have died in the past 8 years are Herman Becker, Marjorie Kerr Bauer, Mary Alice Kerr McClain, Kerwin Kerr, and Henry Kerr.
Living Great Grandchildren
Ann Eliza Hewitt Thornton’s grandchildren – none living
Daniel Matheny Hewitt’s grandchildren – none living
Henry Hewitt’s grandchildren – none living
Adam Hewitt’s grandchildren – Ruth Launer
J. Andrew Hewitt’s grandchildren: Eleeta Hilderbrand, Elois Demaray, Jean Kerr, Elma Hewitt, Elinor Denton, and Velma Pollard.
Isaiah Hewitt’s grandchildren: Florence Gilchrist, Yvonne Heinrichs
Matthew Hewitt’s grandchildren: Whitney Kennedy, Robin Kennedy, Cynthia Randall, Marjorie Hubbard
Jasper Hewitt’s grandchildren: Robert Hewitt
Horry Hewitt: had no family
Lorin Hewitt’s grandchildren: Kenneth Pomeroy, Merritt Hewitt, Elizabeth Hewitt
If you have knowledge that any of these people have passed, please send a note to newsletter@hmcfamily.org