Lillian Marie Kerr, 86, of Parker died Friday, March 12, 2010, in her son’s home in Iola.
She was born July 1, 1923, in Centerville, the fifth child of Walter Glenn and Esther Pearl (Price) Troth.
On July 4, 1941, she married Harland Kerr in Paola. He died Dec. 4, 1996.
She was a homemaker, involved with the family farm and was a baby sitter. She liked to watch University of Kansas and Kansas State University basketball games and game shows on television. She was a seventh degree Parker Grange member and served as project leader while her children were involved in 4-H.
She is survived by four sons, Glenn and his wife, Linda, Parker, Charles and his wife, Deborah, Iola, James and his wife, Liz, Garnett, and Roger and his wife, Kim, Osawatomie; three daughters, Katherine Dick, Shawnee, Judy Grantham and her husband, Bob, Moore, Okla., and Carol Brownell and her husband, David, Beeville, Texas; two brothers, Kenneth Troth, Pleasanton, Raimond Troth, Mound City; 20 grandchildren; 31-plus great-grandchildren; other relatives and friends.
Three brothers, Earl, Cecil and W.G. Troth, two sisters, Evelyn Wisbey and Alice Kerr, a son-in-law, Kenneth Dick; and a grandson, Wesley Glenn Kerr, died earlier.
Graveside services were this morning at Goodrich Cemetery.
Memorials to Lenexa Hospice or Allen County Animal Rescue Facility may be sent to Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home, P.O. Box 430, Osawatomie, KS 66064.
Lillian Kerr
