Monday, August 8, 2016 5:16 pm

Louise Kennedy Shearin, 89, passed away Saturday, August 6, 2016. She was born April 18, 1927 in Nash County to the late Walter and Annie May Evans Kennedy. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Lee Shearin, several brothers and sisters.

She is survived by two sons, James Shearin (April) and George Allen Kennedy; five daughters, Shirley Pepper (Jerry), Joyce Ann Lopez (Andy), Mary Boykin (Jimmy), Brenda Yanez (Jose) and Cathy Mincher; two sisters, Doris Griffin (Robert) and Evelyn Summerlin; nineteen grandchildren and nineteen great-grandchildren.

Graveside service will be held Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 11 a.m. at Rocky Mount Memorial Park.

Arrangements by Cornerstone Funeral Home and Cremations, Nashville.