Arnetta (Rand) Kennedy
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Arnetta "Nettie" (Rand) Kennedy (b. 1892 - d. 1984) was born on April 8, 1892 in Cripple Creek, Colorado, to Juanita and Charles Rand. She married Francis Flanders "Frank" Kennedy on January 31, 1914 in Tombstone, Arizona, She had nine children: Frances Edwardson, Herbert Kennedy, Edna Kennedy, Katherine DeSpain, Mamie Moss, Cody Kennedy, Adeline"Bessie" McMullin, Phyllis Gunter, and Hazel "Donnie" Maynard. She died on November 1, 1984 in Tonopah, Nevada.
Because of the Great Depression, she was left alone to raise and support her children while her husband looked for work in mining and orther pursuits. She worked as a cook, a seamstress, a school bus driver, a chicken and turkey producer. She grew and sold produce, sold various products and ran a hotel. Frank died from peritonitis from a ruptured appendix in December 1942. Three of the children were still in the home. She became the Postmaster for Tonopah, Nevada in 1949, as position she held for ten years.
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