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KENNETH 'KENNY' WILSON was the 3rd child of Elden Richard Wilson and Leona Rose White. He had 2 older sisters, Patricia 'Pat' and Carolyn Sue.
In his early childhood after their small, 2 bedroom, early mining days style house they lived in burned, his father built a house on the lot at the same location at 1202 Michigan Ave in Joplin, MO. and the family resided there until the mid 1950's when his father bought 5 acres of property out in the country south of Joplin just east of South Main Street off the Reding's Mill Road.
There he built another home. They lived in the basement until the house was completed.
His grandfather Walter Wilson owned the family business, Wilson Feed & Seed at 14th and Main streets in Joplin. When his grandfather retired, his father obtained sole interest in the business and the family helped out in the store. Kenny delivered feed around the area in a blue Ford 3 ton delivery truck in the summers or after school. (He hated doing that!)
He was a graduate of Joplin Senior High School in 1962 and not long after that enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving on the USS Stribling destroyer as a radar man.
He returned home from the Navy with an honorable discharge, working part time driving a delivery truck for his Uncle John Wilson, who was then the agent for the Railway Express. The office was then located in the south end of the old Kansas City Southern train station/depot. (located in the 'KC bottoms' under the Broadway viaduct).
After work, many of the guys would gather at a neighborhood bar/watering hole on Broadway street called Herschel's on the east side of the viaduct and have a 'cold one' after work.
After returning from his stint in the Navy when he was discharged, in fall of 1967, Kenny bought a 1966 Ford Mustang GT 350H.
This was a specially designed car that Carroll Shelby designed for HERTZ Rent-a-Car and only 350 of the cars were made with a specific design package. Along the lower rocker panel there was a racing stripe that had a 350H that designated them as such. It was a fastback with porthole windows designed into the roof line toward the back of the car, with a full view fast back window.
The car was black with 2 wide gold racing stripes that ran from the trunk to the front of the car. The engine hood had 2 hood pins to hold the hood down. The engine sported a 4 barrel, 289 high performance, very competitive Ford engine.
The interior was specially designed with an automatic heavy duty Lincoln transmission, with a T handle gear selector, bucket seats with belts that sported a large piece of cowhide leather and they latched together, rather than just being clicked together like ordinary seat belts do. The rear seat back folded down flat in 2 sections, covering the area where the seat was to make an area that opened it up from the trunk area.
The fun thing in the 1960's was going out and cruising Main street in Joplin from McDonald's on 27th and Main north to 7th street, then turning west and going 16 blocks west to 7th & Maiden Lane to a popular place known as Keller's Barb-B-Que that was located on the southeast corner of the intersection. Cruising this distance was the see and be seen recreation of all of the area young people. When not cruising, parking on either McDonald's or Keller's parking lots, backed in so as to be able to see and wave at all your friends could be accomplished when not driving back and forth.
The ones with the 'muscle cars' spent many an evening drag racing between stop lights on Main Street.
This is where Kenny met Nancy. A blonde high school senior. Before long, the relationship blossomed into a romance. She graduated in May and August 31st, 1968 they were married at McCoy's Wedding Chapel north of Joplin just south of the area known as "Stone's Corner", going on their honeymoon to Frontier City, a popular tourist destination in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
They were married from 1968 to 1984 and had 2 sons, Michael Christopher Wilson and Scott Randall Wilson.
Kenny eventually left Railway Express and went to work in 1969 for TAMKO Asphalt Products at the felt mill on Newman Road and Rangeline in Joplin and remained employed there until he retired.
The two things that was at the top of his list to do was golfing and fishing. Golfing was his favorite. He learned to play in his mid 20's and developed a lifelong love of it.
Kenny was a very involved Dad with his sons, coaching them in their T-ball, little league baseball games, soccer and pee wee wrestling.
He had, and was survived by 2 sons, Michael C. Wilson and Scott R. Wilson and one grandson, Derek A. Wilson and one sister, Patricia 'Pat' Conard.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Elden R. Wilson and Leona R. (White) Wilson and one sister, Carolyn Sue 'Sue' Bottom.
bio by Nancy (Wallace) [Wilson] Brewer
NOTE: Military stone ordered Apr 6, 2016 and it was mounted on the back of his parents upright double stone
KENNETH 'KENNY' WILSON was the 3rd child of Elden Richard Wilson and Leona Rose White. He had 2 older sisters, Patricia 'Pat' and Carolyn Sue.
In his early childhood after their small, 2 bedroom, early mining days style house they lived in burned, his father built a house on the lot at the same location at 1202 Michigan Ave in Joplin, MO. and the family resided there until the mid 1950's when his father bought 5 acres of property out in the country south of Joplin just east of South Main Street off the Reding's Mill Road.
There he built another home. They lived in the basement until the house was completed.
His grandfather Walter Wilson owned the family business, Wilson Feed & Seed at 14th and Main streets in Joplin. When his grandfather retired, his father obtained sole interest in the business and the family helped out in the store. Kenny delivered feed around the area in a blue Ford 3 ton delivery truck in the summers or after school. (He hated doing that!)
He was a graduate of Joplin Senior High School in 1962 and not long after that enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving on the USS Stribling destroyer as a radar man.
He returned home from the Navy with an honorable discharge, working part time driving a delivery truck for his Uncle John Wilson, who was then the agent for the Railway Express. The office was then located in the south end of the old Kansas City Southern train station/depot. (located in the 'KC bottoms' under the Broadway viaduct).
After work, many of the guys would gather at a neighborhood bar/watering hole on Broadway street called Herschel's on the east side of the viaduct and have a 'cold one' after work.
After returning from his stint in the Navy when he was discharged, in fall of 1967, Kenny bought a 1966 Ford Mustang GT 350H.
This was a specially designed car that Carroll Shelby designed for HERTZ Rent-a-Car and only 350 of the cars were made with a specific design package. Along the lower rocker panel there was a racing stripe that had a 350H that designated them as such. It was a fastback with porthole windows designed into the roof line toward the back of the car, with a full view fast back window.
The car was black with 2 wide gold racing stripes that ran from the trunk to the front of the car. The engine hood had 2 hood pins to hold the hood down. The engine sported a 4 barrel, 289 high performance, very competitive Ford engine.
The interior was specially designed with an automatic heavy duty Lincoln transmission, with a T handle gear selector, bucket seats with belts that sported a large piece of cowhide leather and they latched together, rather than just being clicked together like ordinary seat belts do. The rear seat back folded down flat in 2 sections, covering the area where the seat was to make an area that opened it up from the trunk area.
The fun thing in the 1960's was going out and cruising Main street in Joplin from McDonald's on 27th and Main north to 7th street, then turning west and going 16 blocks west to 7th & Maiden Lane to a popular place known as Keller's Barb-B-Que that was located on the southeast corner of the intersection. Cruising this distance was the see and be seen recreation of all of the area young people. When not cruising, parking on either McDonald's or Keller's parking lots, backed in so as to be able to see and wave at all your friends could be accomplished when not driving back and forth.
The ones with the 'muscle cars' spent many an evening drag racing between stop lights on Main Street.
This is where Kenny met Nancy. A blonde high school senior. Before long, the relationship blossomed into a romance. She graduated in May and August 31st, 1968 they were married at McCoy's Wedding Chapel north of Joplin just south of the area known as "Stone's Corner", going on their honeymoon to Frontier City, a popular tourist destination in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
They were married from 1968 to 1984 and had 2 sons, Michael Christopher Wilson and Scott Randall Wilson.
Kenny eventually left Railway Express and went to work in 1969 for TAMKO Asphalt Products at the felt mill on Newman Road and Rangeline in Joplin and remained employed there until he retired.
The two things that was at the top of his list to do was golfing and fishing. Golfing was his favorite. He learned to play in his mid 20's and developed a lifelong love of it.
Kenny was a very involved Dad with his sons, coaching them in their T-ball, little league baseball games, soccer and pee wee wrestling.
He had, and was survived by 2 sons, Michael C. Wilson and Scott R. Wilson and one grandson, Derek A. Wilson and one sister, Patricia 'Pat' Conard.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Elden R. Wilson and Leona R. (White) Wilson and one sister, Carolyn Sue 'Sue' Bottom.
bio by Nancy (Wallace) [Wilson] Brewer
NOTE: Military stone ordered Apr 6, 2016 and it was mounted on the back of his parents upright double stone
Click on photos for captions
KENNETH 'KENNY' WILSON was the 3rd child of Elden Richard Wilson and Leona Rose White. He had 2 older sisters, Patricia 'Pat' and Carolyn Sue.
In his early childhood after their small, 2 bedroom, early mining days style house they lived in burned, his father built a house on the lot at the same location at 1202 Michigan Ave in Joplin, MO. and the family resided there until the mid 1950's when his father bought 5 acres of property out in the country south of Joplin just east of South Main Street off the Reding's Mill Road.
There he built another home. They lived in the basement until the house was completed.
His grandfather Walter Wilson owned the family business, Wilson Feed & Seed at 14th and Main streets in Joplin. When his grandfather retired, his father obtained sole interest in the business and the family helped out in the store. Kenny delivered feed around the area in a blue Ford 3 ton delivery truck in the summers or after school. (He hated doing that!)
He was a graduate of Joplin Senior High School in 1962 and not long after that enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving on the USS Stribling destroyer as a radar man.
He returned home from the Navy with an honorable discharge, working part time driving a delivery truck for his Uncle John Wilson, who was then the agent for the Railway Express. The office was then located in the south end of the old Kansas City Southern train station/depot. (located in the 'KC bottoms' under the Broadway viaduct).
After work, many of the guys would gather at a neighborhood bar/watering hole on Broadway street called Herschel's on the east side of the viaduct and have a 'cold one' after work.
After returning from his stint in the Navy when he was discharged, in fall of 1967, Kenny bought a 1966 Ford Mustang GT 350H.
This was a specially designed car that Carroll Shelby designed for HERTZ Rent-a-Car and only 350 of the cars were made with a specific design package. Along the lower rocker panel there was a racing stripe that had a 350H that designated them as such. It was a fastback with porthole windows designed into the roof line toward the back of the car, with a full view fast back window.
The car was black with 2 wide gold racing stripes that ran from the trunk to the front of the car. The engine hood had 2 hood pins to hold the hood down. The engine sported a 4 barrel, 289 high performance, very competitive Ford engine.
The interior was specially designed with an automatic heavy duty Lincoln transmission, with a T handle gear selector, bucket seats with belts that sported a large piece of cowhide leather and they latched together, rather than just being clicked together like ordinary seat belts do. The rear seat back folded down flat in 2 sections, covering the area where the seat was to make an area that opened it up from the trunk area.
The fun thing in the 1960's was going out and cruising Main street in Joplin from McDonald's on 27th and Main north to 7th street, then turning west and going 16 blocks west to 7th & Maiden Lane to a popular place known as Keller's Barb-B-Que that was located on the southeast corner of the intersection. Cruising this distance was the see and be seen recreation of all of the area young people. When not cruising, parking on either McDonald's or Keller's parking lots, backed in so as to be able to see and wave at all your friends could be accomplished when not driving back and forth.
The ones with the 'muscle cars' spent many an evening drag racing between stop lights on Main Street.
This is where Kenny met Nancy. A blonde high school senior. Before long, the relationship blossomed into a romance. She graduated in May and August 31st, 1968 they were married at McCoy's Wedding Chapel north of Joplin just south of the area known as "Stone's Corner", going on their honeymoon to Frontier City, a popular tourist destination in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
They were married from 1968 to 1984 and had 2 sons, Michael Christopher Wilson and Scott Randall Wilson.
Kenny eventually left Railway Express and went to work in 1969 for TAMKO Asphalt Products at the felt mill on Newman Road and Rangeline in Joplin and remained employed there until he retired.
The two things that was at the top of his list to do was golfing and fishing. Golfing was his favorite. He learned to play in his mid 20's and developed a lifelong love of it.
Kenny was a very involved Dad with his sons, coaching them in their T-ball, little league baseball games, soccer and pee wee wrestling.
He had, and was survived by 2 sons, Michael C. Wilson and Scott R. Wilson and one grandson, Derek A. Wilson and one sister, Patricia 'Pat' Conard.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Elden R. Wilson and Leona R. (White) Wilson and one sister, Carolyn Sue 'Sue' Bottom.
bio by Nancy (Wallace) [Wilson] Brewer
NOTE: Military stone ordered Apr 6, 2016 and it was mounted on the back of his parents upright double stone
KENNETH 'KENNY' WILSON was the 3rd child of Elden Richard Wilson and Leona Rose White. He had 2 older sisters, Patricia 'Pat' and Carolyn Sue.
In his early childhood after their small, 2 bedroom, early mining days style house they lived in burned, his father built a house on the lot at the same location at 1202 Michigan Ave in Joplin, MO. and the family resided there until the mid 1950's when his father bought 5 acres of property out in the country south of Joplin just east of South Main Street off the Reding's Mill Road.
There he built another home. They lived in the basement until the house was completed.
His grandfather Walter Wilson owned the family business, Wilson Feed & Seed at 14th and Main streets in Joplin. When his grandfather retired, his father obtained sole interest in the business and the family helped out in the store. Kenny delivered feed around the area in a blue Ford 3 ton delivery truck in the summers or after school. (He hated doing that!)
He was a graduate of Joplin Senior High School in 1962 and not long after that enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving on the USS Stribling destroyer as a radar man.
He returned home from the Navy with an honorable discharge, working part time driving a delivery truck for his Uncle John Wilson, who was then the agent for the Railway Express. The office was then located in the south end of the old Kansas City Southern train station/depot. (located in the 'KC bottoms' under the Broadway viaduct).
After work, many of the guys would gather at a neighborhood bar/watering hole on Broadway street called Herschel's on the east side of the viaduct and have a 'cold one' after work.
After returning from his stint in the Navy when he was discharged, in fall of 1967, Kenny bought a 1966 Ford Mustang GT 350H.
This was a specially designed car that Carroll Shelby designed for HERTZ Rent-a-Car and only 350 of the cars were made with a specific design package. Along the lower rocker panel there was a racing stripe that had a 350H that designated them as such. It was a fastback with porthole windows designed into the roof line toward the back of the car, with a full view fast back window.
The car was black with 2 wide gold racing stripes that ran from the trunk to the front of the car. The engine hood had 2 hood pins to hold the hood down. The engine sported a 4 barrel, 289 high performance, very competitive Ford engine.
The interior was specially designed with an automatic heavy duty Lincoln transmission, with a T handle gear selector, bucket seats with belts that sported a large piece of cowhide leather and they latched together, rather than just being clicked together like ordinary seat belts do. The rear seat back folded down flat in 2 sections, covering the area where the seat was to make an area that opened it up from the trunk area.
The fun thing in the 1960's was going out and cruising Main street in Joplin from McDonald's on 27th and Main north to 7th street, then turning west and going 16 blocks west to 7th & Maiden Lane to a popular place known as Keller's Barb-B-Que that was located on the southeast corner of the intersection. Cruising this distance was the see and be seen recreation of all of the area young people. When not cruising, parking on either McDonald's or Keller's parking lots, backed in so as to be able to see and wave at all your friends could be accomplished when not driving back and forth.
The ones with the 'muscle cars' spent many an evening drag racing between stop lights on Main Street.
This is where Kenny met Nancy. A blonde high school senior. Before long, the relationship blossomed into a romance. She graduated in May and August 31st, 1968 they were married at McCoy's Wedding Chapel north of Joplin just south of the area known as "Stone's Corner", going on their honeymoon to Frontier City, a popular tourist destination in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
They were married from 1968 to 1984 and had 2 sons, Michael Christopher Wilson and Scott Randall Wilson.
Kenny eventually left Railway Express and went to work in 1969 for TAMKO Asphalt Products at the felt mill on Newman Road and Rangeline in Joplin and remained employed there until he retired.
The two things that was at the top of his list to do was golfing and fishing. Golfing was his favorite. He learned to play in his mid 20's and developed a lifelong love of it.
Kenny was a very involved Dad with his sons, coaching them in their T-ball, little league baseball games, soccer and pee wee wrestling.
He had, and was survived by 2 sons, Michael C. Wilson and Scott R. Wilson and one grandson, Derek A. Wilson and one sister, Patricia 'Pat' Conard.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Elden R. Wilson and Leona R. (White) Wilson and one sister, Carolyn Sue 'Sue' Bottom.
bio by Nancy (Wallace) [Wilson] Brewer
NOTE: Military stone ordered Apr 6, 2016 and it was mounted on the back of his parents upright double stone
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Father to Michael & Scott - Grandfather to Derek
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