Virginia Walters Kennedy

Salisbury, NC: Mrs. Virginia Walters Kennedy, 88, formerly of the Cornwell Community in Chester, SC died Friday, March 28, 2014 at Genesis Health Care in Salisbury, NC.The funeral service will be 2:00 P.M. Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at Woodward Baptist Church with Rev. Keith Hinson officiating. The interment will be in Woodward Baptist Church Cemetery.The family will receive friends from 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, 2014 in the sanctuary of the church. Born July 5, 1925 in Chester County, SC, Mrs. Kennedy was a daughter of the late John L. and Lillie Deese Walters.She was a graduate of Chester High School and a retired seamstress with Chester Sportswear.Mrs. Kennedy was a member of Woodward Baptist Church. She is survived by one daughter, Sara “Kitty” Ward and her husband Bennie of Harmony, NC; three sons, Johnny Kennedy and his wife Chris of Melissa, TX, Kenneth Kennedy and his wife Kathy of Colorado Springs, CO and Charles Kennedy and his wife Sheila of Savannah, Georgia; nine grandchildren; eighteen great grandchildren; three sisters, Mae Yelton and her husband Jim, and Dolly Wright all of Chester, SC and Eva Neal and her husband Gerald of Fort Mill, SC and one brother, Eddie Walters of Chester, SC.She was preceded in death by two sons, James B. Kennedy, Jr. and William Roy Kennedy and three sisters and three brothers. Memorials may be made to the family at Woodward Baptist Church, 1570 Ashford Road, Chester, SC 29706.