Family will be receiving friends on Friday, July 3, 2020, 10:30 until 11 a.m., Kilgore-Green Funeral Home. Service will follow at 11 a.m., in the Kilgore-Green Chapel, with burial at Bennett Cemetery. Thomas Curtis will officiate. For the high risk of Covid-19, please consider viewing online service at https://www.facebook.com/kilgoregreenjasper
Pauline “Polly” was born on March 29, 1933, married her first love on March 26, 1952. Pauline travelled with the Air Force until she and O.J. retired back to their home in Jasper in 1974. She was a homemaker and the best mother. Pauline was a lifelong member of New Hope Baptist Church. She loved to cook and was a wonderful mother and grandmother. She loved shopping, reading her Bible and singing hymns when she thought no one was listening.
She was preceded in death by her husband Oscar Jackson Kennedy; daughters, Bonnie Kennedy and Pam Kennedy; granddaughter, Angela Fox; parents, Rosco and Willie Lee Martin; siblings, Bessie Lee Murry, Irene Naramore, Alma Jean Trotter and Billy Martin; daughter-in-law, Karen Kennedy; in-laws, Oscar and Lucy Lay Kennedy.
She is survived by her children, Darrel J. Kennedy, Robert “Bob” Kennedy (Joyce), Alan D. Kennedy, Douglas “Doug” Kennedy (Laurie); grandchildren, Russell Kennedy, Kristen Earn, Kara Bowden, Amy Carlson, Kevin Gillis, Benny Smith, Andrew Smith, Jada Suit, Jimbo Kennedy, Yasmine Kennedy, Nikki Dryden, Kassi McMullin, Christopher Kennedy; 18 great grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews and friends.
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