Kennedy

Thomas Cosgrove Kennedy, 83, of Pine Township, Mercer County, died at 5:50 a.m. Thursday at the Grove City Medical Center after a two-week illness.

Born in Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, April 29, 1924, he was the son of James and Margaret Josephine Higgins Kennedy.

He grew up on a farm in Murrinsville, where members of the Murrin family were his great-aunts and great-uncles.

He graduated from Grove City High School in 1941, and during World War II, he served in the Navy Air Force as a pilot and also was a flight instructor in Pensacola, Fla.

Mr. Kennedy graduated from Grove City College in 1947, where he was the president of the Adelphikos Fraternity and the Inter-fraternity Council.

He worked in management at USS International and lived in Rockford, Ill., Pittsburgh, Birmingham, Ala., Middletown, N.J., and London, England.

He traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States and retired to Grove City in 1994.

He was president of the volunteers at the Grove City Hospital and was a volunteer with Meals on Wheels.

He taught catechism classes and was a member of the Church of The Beloved Disciple and served on the board of directors of the Moniteau School District and the Farmers National Bank of Emlenton.

Surviving are his wife, Carol Rusch Kennedy, whom he married June 25, 1949; three children, Colleen Anne Kennedy, M.D., and her husband, Rex Brigham, of Arlington, Va., and Maggie Kennedy and her husband, Patrick Collins, and Marg Kennedy and her husband, Gerald Fisher, all of Washington, D.C.; and four grandchildren, Katherine and Ian Collins and Thomas and Henry Brigham, all of Washington, D.C. Two brother, the Rev. James Kennedy S.J. of Baltimore, Md., and Dr. James Kennedy and his wife, Renie, of Davis Calif., also survive.

A brother, Michael Kennedy, preceded him in death.

<B>KENNEDY </B>— Friends of Thomas Cosgrove Kennedy, who died Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007, will be received from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the <B>Cunningham Funeral Home</B>, 306 Bessemer Ave., Grove City. Services will follow at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home with the Rev. Mark Hoffman, his church pastor, officiating.Memorial donations may be made to the Grove City Medical Center Volunteers, c.o. Grove City Medical Center, North Broad Street Extension, Grove City, PA 16127.