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Subject: [KERN-L] Obituary - John W. Kern - Berkeley Co., VA
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:49:05 -0700

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Surname: Kern, Barbour, Estes
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JOHN W. KERN LAID TO REST AT WELLTOWN
John W. Kern, a widely known resident of Inwood, died there at 10:35 o'clock
Sunday morning following a long illness of dropsy and asthma. The remains
were taken to the establishment of Funeral Director H. M. Cole in Martinsburg
and the funeral started from there at 9:30 o'clock this morning. The cortege
proceeded to Welltown near Winchester, where the funeral services and interment
took place. Rev. Joseph R. Collis, pastor of the Inwood United Brethren
Church, of which the deceased was a member officiated.
Mr. Kern was born on May 27, 1858 -- 65 years ago, at Jones Spring Berkeley
county. He was a son of the late Rev. John A. Kern, a prominent local Methodist
preacher. In the early days of this state, and was a carpenter by profession.
When a youth he moved to Broadway, Va. and then made his home for sixteen
years in Winchester. The last twenty-five years of his life were spent
in Inwood. His wife, formerly Miss Martha C. Barbour, has been dead some
time, and his only brother, the late Furlong Kern, died about four years
ago near Winchester. Surviving are three children, Mrs. Mary Estes, of
Inwood; Gold Kern, also of Inwood, and John D. Kern, of Martinsburg, a
well known employe of the Interwoven Mills in Martinsburg.

"Winchester Evening Star"

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