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Submitted: 11/30/09 • Approved: 9/13/20 • Last Updated: 9/16/20 • R33290-G0-S3
US Army
World War II
Jan 2, 1925 - Oct 13, 1994
Loren Kenison
Loren M. Kenison, 69, of 1901 S. Lyndale Ave., a retired sheep buyer, died Thursday, Oct. 13, 1994, in Sioux Valley Hospital, of liver cancer.
Mr. Kenison was born Jan. 2, 1925, in Moody County. He attended school in Egan and South Dakota State University in Brookings. While in the Army, he served under Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Yokohama, Japan, from October 1945 to October 1946.
married Lois Lee on Nov. 22, 1947, in Colman. They farmed in the Colman area for several years. In 1961, they moved to Sioux Falls, where he was employed with the sheep-buying department at John Morrell & Co. He retired as head sheep buyer in 1987.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Sioux Falls.
Survivors include his wife, Lois of Sioux Falls; one daughter, Mrs. Charles (Robin) Davis of Sioux Falls; two grandsons; two brothers: Stanley and Robert, both of Sioux Falls; and three sisters: Mrs. Lorin (Berniele) Smith of Salinas, Calif., Mrs. Lloyd (Rachel) Untiedt of Luverne, Minn., and Mrs. Boyd (Dorothy) Lee of Germantown, Tenn.
Services will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday in the First Baptist Church in Sioux Falls, with committal services at 1 p.m. in the Colman Cemetery in Colman.
Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. today in Heritage Funeral Home in Sioux Falls, with the family present from 7 to 8 p.m.
The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of donations to the music ministry at the First Baptist Church or to the Colman United Methodist Church. .
Argus-Leader
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
14 Oct 1994, Fri • Page 17
Contributed on 11/30/09 by gailscriver
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