CLARENCE KERNS
1887-1950
Death Claims Tutor Key Man
Rites At Toms Creek For Clarence Kerns
Clarence Kerns, 63, died as the result of a heart attack at his
home in Tutor Key, at 11:30 p. m., Monday, September 4, 1950.
He was the son of Lewis and Jennie Cooke Kerns and was born June 2,
1887, in Lawrence County, Ohio.
A retired miner, he had been a resident of Tutor Key for 11 years.
Surviving besides his wife, Mrs. Ella McKenzie Kerns, whom he
married in 1915 at Offutt, Ky., are six sons and four daughters;
Howard, Douglas, and Kenneth Kerns, all of Tutor Key; James, Bob
White, W. Va.; Richard, Detroit, Michigan; Jack, Columbus, Ohio;
Mrs. Jessie Eiglensee, Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Neva Brown, Volga; Mrs.
Ruth Castle, Wharton, W. Va., and Mrs. Minnie Grace Barber,
Paintsville.
Surviving brothers and sisters are: Walter Kerns, West Virginia;
Ray Kerns, Ohio; Rex Kerns, Ohio; Mrs. Lizzie Price, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Mrs. Bertha Kinder, West Virginia.
Funeral rites were held at the Toms Creek United Baptist Church at
10:30 a. m., Thursday, September 7, 1950.
Burial was made in the Family Cemetery at Tutor Key, with the
Paintsville Funeral Home directing.
Paintsville Herald
Thursday
9-7-1950
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