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Lena Jo Kidd

 

January 9, 2020

Lena Jo Kidd

Lena Jo Horner Kidd, age 82, of Linden passed away Monday, January 6, 2020 at Maury Regional Hospital in Columbia.

Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, January 9, 2020 in the chapel of Young Funeral Home with Randy Young officiating. Interment will follow in the Dr. O.A. Kirk Memorial Cemetery.

Mrs. Kidd was born April 16, 1937 to the late William Leonard and Aucie Allen Horner on Lick Creek in Perry County. She attended Nathan School on Lick Creek, Pineview School on Tom's Creek and graduated from Linden High School in 1955.

In 1955, she was Miss Linden High School, loved her classmates and was instrumental in organizing a

class reunion each year. She was a charter member of Lick Creek Baptist Church, loved her church and was a Sunday school teacher for many years. She graduated from Austin Peay State University in 1959 and went to work in the Dean of Admissions Office. She then met the love of her life, Samuel Hunter Kidd of Clarksville. She was a retired secretary from the Perry County Clerk and Master's office.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 43 years, Samuel Kidd.

Survivors include her son, Scott William Kidd; a very special granddaughter, Audra Carolina Kidd; a grandson, Nicholas Wayne Kidd; and a host of loving relatives and many, many friends.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Lick Creek Baptist Church Scholarship Fund in her name, 1671 Lower Lick Creek Road, Linden, TN 37096.

 

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