- Date Of Birth: December 13, 1935
- Date Of Death: April 1, 2019
- State: Georgia
Sandra Lou DeSilvia Kennerson
Sandra Lou DeSilvia Kennerson of Greensboro, GA died Monday, April 1, 2019 at The Harbor in Eatonton, GA. She was 83. Born on December 13, 1935 in Tallahassee, FL, she was one of two children born to the late Ernest DeSilvia and Wanda McCormick DeSilvia. After graduating from Central High School in 1953 in Jackson, MS, she attended Mississippi Southern College before transferring to Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1958. Sandra did her Occupational Therapy clinical affiliations at Crippled Children’s Hospital School in Sioux Falls, SD, American Lake Veterans Hospital in American Lake, WA, and Houston Veterans Hospital in Houston, TX. Sandra then took a position at Norwich State Hospital in Connecticut as an Occupational Therapist where she retired from in 1990. It was in Norwich that Sandra met and married Nelson Walter Kennerson on July 1, 1961. They retired to Naples, FL living there for twenty years and in 2013 made their permanent home in Greensboro to live close to their daughter and her son. Sandra and Nelson loved to travel and spent many summers on Flathead Lake in Montana.
Survivors include two daughters, Heather Leigh Kennerson of Greensboro, GA and Paige Moira Montague and husband Paul of Montpelier, VT; three grandchildren, Emily Montague, Laura Montague and Philip Knowles; brother, Craig DeSilvia and wife Rebecca of Boise, ID; other relatives and many friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Nelson Walter Kennerson in October of 2016.
