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The Genealogy of the Ruzicka and Manchak Families

Family: Norman Bon-Durant KENT / Hazel Irene ABSHIRE (F1465)

• Male Norman Bon-Durant KENT

  
  

  Birth	10 Dec 1909
  Death	9 Aug 1959
  Burial	Abt 12 Aug 1959	Riverview Cemetery/Richmond, Virginia, USA
  Marriage	15 Nov 1958  [1]	Petersburg, Fauquier, Virginia, USA  [1]
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  Female Hazel Irene ABSHIRE

  
  

  Birth	26 Oct 1923	Mount Hope, Fayette, West Virginia, USA
  Death	22 Jul 2013	Beckley, Raleigh, West Virginia, USA
  Burial	26 Jul 2013	Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens/Prosperity, Raleigh, West Virginia, USA
  Father	George Albert ABSHIRE | F1460 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mabel PERRY | F1460 Group Sheet

  
  

  Male + Stephen B. KENT

  
  

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  Spouse	Michele | F1467
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• Sources

  [S1245] Obituary of Hazel Irene KENT, (Name: Register-Herald; Location: Beckley, Raleigh, West Virginia, USA; Date: 24 Jul 2013;). HAZEL IRENE ABSHIRE KENT Hazel Irene "Cissie" Abshire Kent, 89, of Beckley, formerly of Mount Hope, died at her home on Monday, July 22, 2013. Born October 26, 1923, at Mount Hope, she was the daughter of the late George A. and Mabel Perry Abshire. She married Norman Bon-Durant Kent on November 15, 1958 in Petersburg, Virginia. Hazel was a retired employee of the Fayette County Board of Education as a custodian at Mount Hope Elementary School. She was a member of the Mount Hope Christian Church and the Winolia Chapter No. 59, Order of the Eastern Star, Mount Hope. She was preceded in death by her sister, Muriel Deal and two brothers, Ashby Abshire and Lewis “Tommy” Abshire. Survivors include her son, Stephen B. Kent and his wife, Michele; two grandsons, Stephen J. Kent and Logan Kent; one brother, Charles “Jim” Abshire; several nieces and nephews; and special friends, Nancy Martin, Della Cole and John Creed. Graveside rites will be 2 p.m. Friday, July 26, 2013, at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Prosperity with Minister Dennis Kinzer officiating. Burial will follow. Arrangements by Tyree Funeral Home, Mount Hope.