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The Beard Family Genealogy

A research archive of the descendants of Thomas Beard and Jean McNutt

Born 03 Feb 1902, Green Bank, WV
Died 30 Jun 1955, Greenville, Pa.
Married George Layke Kerr, Sr., 02 Jun 1921; b 1903
Children Born
George Layke Kerr Jr. 1923
Thomas Kerr 1926
Zane Kerr  
Keith Kerr  
Sara Lou Kerr  
 

 

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Obituary - Mrs. Lillian Beard Kerr, 55, of Hartstown, Pa. and formerly of Green Bank, died June 30 in a Greenville, Pa. Hospital.  She had been ill for several years.  Mrs. Kerr was born on Feb 3, 1902 at Green Bank, the daughter of the late Leslie Osborne and Ruby Ralston Beard.  She graduated from Green Bank High School and formerly taught in Pocahontas County Schools.  She lived at Green Bank before moving to Pennsylvania several years ago.  She was one of eleven children; one brother, Leslie Osborne Jr., died at three years of age.  She is survived by her husband, George Layke Kerr; to brothers, Dewey R. Beard and Layke M. Beard, both of Durbin; seven sisters, Mrs. Birtie McLaughlin of Follansbee, Mrs. Bonnie Brooks of Marlinton, Mrs. Hallie Nottingham of Greenville, Pa., Mrs. Mildred Armstrong of Charleston, Mrs. Wawa Gilmore and Mrs. Josephine Myers, both of Durbin and  Mrs. Jeanne Irons of Boyton Bach, Fla; four sons, George Layke Jr. of Philadelphia, Pa, Thomas of Ironton, Ohio, Zane of Greenville, Pa., and Keith of Hartstown, Pa.; one daughter Mrs. Sara Lou Delhanty of Sharon, Pa. and eight grandchildren.  Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at the Hartstown, Pa. Methodist Church.