Arthur H. Kennedy Colonel US Army

He is survived by his wife Ruth Jane Kennedy; son Thomas W. Kennedy and wife Joyce Kennedy; granddaughter Jennifer Kennedy DeCerb and husband Brian; and great-granddaughters, Mia DeCerb and Sophia DeCerb; grandson Thomas F. Kennedy and wife Janine Kennedy; and great-granddaughter Gillian C. Kennedy.

Colonel Kennedy was born into an Army family at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. To him the Army was his life and he served his country for thirty-one years. He was a member of the 101st Airborne Division throughout World War II, participating in the Normandy, Holland, and Bastogne Operations.

He also served in the 82nd Airborne Division for six years at Fort Bragg, N.C. and then joined the 7th Infantry Division in the landing at Inchon in the Korean War. He served as the Airborne Advisor to Chiang Kai-Shek's elite Airborne Brigade in Taiwan.

On his second tour of duty in Korea, he was the United States Representative with the United National Advisory Group, Chief of Joint Observer Teams in Panjumon, Korea. Throughout his career, he served in many capacities as a commander and staff officer of which six years were spent in the Pentagon on the Army General Staff.

He attended the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the Armor Officer Advanced Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and taught as a staff member of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia. As a member of the 101st Airborne Division and specifically the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, he was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation with a Cluster, the Belgian Fourragere 1940, and the Belgian Croix De Guerre 1940 with Palm, the Dutch Orange Lanyard of Netherlands, and the French Croix De Guerre with Palm. He also was awarded numerous U.S. medals and citations such as a Legion of Merit with two Clusters, two Bronze Stars for valor, the Purple Heart, and the Combat Infantry Badge with Star, the Department of Defense Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Master Parachutists Badge.

He retired from the Army on 1 January 1971. Reflecting his devotion to serve, he attended the University of Notre Dame to secure a Masters Degree in Education. For the next fifteen years, he devoted his life to teaching mathematics to high school students, many of whom followed his advice and chose one of the military academies for their education and a career in the military services.

He was extremely kind and considerate toward everyone he met. This was reflected in his devotion to assisting in the care of patients as a volunteer in Wilford Hall Medical Center, USAF at Lackland AFB, Texas. The family would like to thank the doctors and staff at Wilford Hall Medical Center, especially Col. Joseph A. Brennan and Col. Matthew Carpenter, and good friend Brenda Davis.