Funeral service for Vera I. Kenner, 86, will be 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, at Puritan Congregational Church, Drummond, Okla. Rev. Gordon Epps will officiate. Burial will be in Del Norte Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.
Vera was born Aug. 28, 1924, in Okeene, Okla., to Fred and Evelyn Osborne Breckenridge and died Friday, Feb. 11, 2011, at Greenbrier Nursing Home. She was raised in the Okeene area and graduated from the Dunbar High School, west of Hennessey, Okla., where she was a good basketball player.
She married Alston Kenner June 9, 1945. He passed away in 1998. She worked in the Drummond area in housework. She was a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church, west of Hennessey. She liked sports, enjoyed sewing, shopping, music and loved to be around her family.
Survivors include two sons, Alston Kenner Jr. of Enid, Okla., and Carolos Kenner of Grand Prairie, Texas; two daughters, Madonna Kenner of Yukon, Okla., and Kathy Kenner of Oklahoma City, Okla.; five brothers, Fred Breckenridge Jr. of Oklahoma City, Okla., Vernon Breckenridge of Hennessey, Okla., Ray Breckenridge of Wichita, Kan., Billy Lee Breckenridge of Wichita, Kan., and Bernard (Sonny) Breckenridge of Plano, Texas; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a host of relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Alston, and two sisters, Alveta Nicholas and Delores Moore.
