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Woodlawn Park North Cemetery and Mausoleum AKA Caballero Rivero Woodlawn North
Mausoleum Mausoleum Unit 9 Corridor 3 Section 13
Filename 674962.jpg
Image © 2020 by Bernard Johnson

Woodlawn Park North Cemetery and Mausoleum AKA Caballero Rivero Woodlawn North
Mausoleum Mausoleum Unit 9 Corridor 3 Section 13
Filename 674962-1.jpg
Image © 2020 by Bernard Johnson

Woodlawn Park North Cemetery and Mausoleum AKA Caballero Rivero Woodlawn North
Mausoleum Mausoleum Unit 9 Corridor 3 Section 13
Filename 674962-2.jpg
Image © 2020 by Bernard Johnson

People Names and Dates


Full Name	George Churchill Kenney
AKA Full Name
People ID	674962
Title	General
First Name	George
AKA First Name
Nickname
Middle Name	Churchill
AKA Middle
Patronymic/Matronymic
Priorsurnames
Surname	Kenney
AKA Surname
Father's Surname	Kenney
Mother's Surname	Churchill
Suffix
Gender	Male
Full Birth Date If Known	1889-08-06
Birth Year	1889
Birth Month	8
Birth Day	6
Full Death Date If Known	1977-07-09
Death Year	1977
Death Month	7
Death Day	9

Events, Dates and Places

Event	Date	Geo Top Level	Geo 2nd Level	Geo 3rd Level	Geo 4th Level	Geo 5th Level	Notes
Birth	1889/08/06	Canada	Nova Scotia	Yarmouth	Yarmouth (District Municipality)	Dayton
Residence	1890	USA	Massachusetts	Norfolk	Brookline
Residence	1935	USA	Virginia	Hampton City	Hampton		Langley Field (now Joint Base Langley-Eustis)
Residence	1940	USA	Ohio	Greene	Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Death	1977/08/09	USA	Florida	Miami-Dade	Bay Harbor Islands

Relationships

Relationship	Related To	Relative's People ID	Relative's Birth Year	Relative's Death Year	Other Date (typically Marriage Date)
Son of	Anne Louise Churchill Kenney	674994	1867	1912
Brother of	Ruth Jane Kenney	674995	1890	1903
Brother of	Gertrude Louise Kenney Glazier	674993	1892	1973
Husband of	Hazel D Richardson Kenney	674980	1892	1922	1920/10/16
Husband of	Alice Steward Maxcy Kenney	674989	1892	1973	1923/06/05
Husband of	Sarah Elizabeth Kenney	674984	1912	1970	1941-1969
Husband of	Jeannette C Kenney	674990	1931	1977	1971-1976
Father of	William R. Kenney	674985	1922	1988
Father of	Julia Churchill Kenney Hoagland	674982	1926	1976

Military Service

Rank If Known Or Highest Or Final Rank	Branch of Service	Beginning Date if Known	End Date if Known
Captain (Non Navy)	US Army Aviation Section / Air Service
Lieutenant Colonel	US Army Air Corps
Lieutenant General	US Army
Major General	US Army Air Force/Air Forces
General (Four Star)	US Army
General (Four Star)	US Air Force

Military Actions Served During


World War I
World War II

Interment, Inurnment or Memorialization Information


Cemetery	Woodlawn Park North Cemetery and Mausoleum AKA Caballero Rivero Woodlawn North
Address	3260 SW 8th Street
City/Town	Miami
County/District	Miami-Dade
State/Province	Florida
Postal/Zip Code	33135
Country/Principality	USA
Mausoleum	Mausoleum Unit 9

Corridor	3
Section	13
Crypt	A
Organization
Property Type
Has Marker	Yes
No Marker
Is Cenotaph
GPS/LatLong Coordinates
End of Interment Record	If there are additional interments or cenotaphs for this person they will appear below

Cemetery	Arlington National Cemetery
Address	1 Memorial Avenue
City/Town	Fort Myer
County/District	Arlington
State/Province	Virginia
Postal/Zip Code	22211
Country/Principality	USA
Section	Section 30

Site	398


Organization
Property Type	Cenotaph
Has Marker	Yes
No Marker
Is Cenotaph	Yes
GPS/LatLong Coordinates
End of Interment Record	If there are additional interments or cenotaphs for this person they will appear below

Inscription Information

No inscriptions added for this person yet

Other Information

Biographical or other information about the person

https://mills-sfv.com/Genealogy/GLS/People/Text/674962.txt

Wikipedia article on George Kenney.

If Wikipedia is to be believed, for some reason he had a lower rank in the USAAF (Major General) then he had in the US Army (Lieutenant General). I have tried researching this without making any headway. For now I've left the military service as is, since it is possible this really was the way it was. Or, it may be a mistake on Wikipedia.

Kenney headed the Fifth Air Force during WWII and later the Far East Air Forces. After WWII he became the first head of SAC, before being replaced by Curtis LeMay. Headed the Air University from 1948 until his retirement from the Air Force in 1951.

Personal Life

He was born in Nova Scotia while his parents were summering there (his mother's family was from that area and the weather was reportedly more pleasant than Boston's that time of year). The family's usual residence was in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Oddly enough, he is listed in both the Nova Scotia and the Massachusetts birth records, although the Massachusetts records erroneously state he was born in Brookline, not in Canada.

His first two wives are well documented, though I haven't found out when he divorced Alice Maxcy Kenney. His last two wives I know very little about, although I have made a few notes on their records.

There is some confusion over Kenney's actual burial place. Because there is a marker for him in Arlington, some people have erroneously assumed he was buried there. Thanks to Bernard Johnson we now know this is not the case, and that he is actually buried in Miami. This ties out with obituaries I found from 1977 that showed his funeral and burial were either in Miami or "South Miami".

There is a marker for him at Arlington (where his third wife Sarah is buried) and his Find A Grave memorial was previously attached to Arlington (it has now been stupidly merged with the memorial just created in Miami, proving that even the Find A Grave administrators often can't be bothered to follow their own rules on cenotaph memorials), but I don't see any dates for him on the marker, and his name is absent from the Arlington grave locator website (although his third wife's name is listed). There are websites affiliated with Arlington that say he is buried there, but no photographs showing his dates. My suspicion is that it was believed that he would be buried at Arlington, but for some reason he was not.

There is a Wikiwand page for him where there is speculation that his fourth wife did not want him buried with his third wife so she nixed the burial at Arlington. As of now it's pretty clear that the marker at Arlington is a cenotaph for him. Since I've seen this kind of thing literally hundreds of times, it would not be a surprise if that was what happened. Kenney would be the most prominent person that I know with one of these "accidental cenotaphs", if this is in fact the case.

In addition to his third wife, his son and his daughter are also buried at Arlington. So it seems very likely that the plan was for him to be buried there but his fourth wife Jeannette apparently had other ideas.

Kenney shares some pretty distinguished company in his burial location at Woodlawn/Caballero. He is interred just above Desi Arnaz's father Desiderio (and Desiderio's second wife, who is not Desi's mother) and two spaces up from a former president of Cuba (Gerardo Machado y Morales), and his wife.


Distinguished Flying Cross (USA)
Distinguished Service Cross (US Army)
Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)
National Aviation Hall of Fame	1971
Purple Heart
Silver Star/Silver Star Medal
Small notes (field in database 50 characters max)
Family Search ID	LL7F-XXW
Find A Grave 1	205938896
Famous per Find A Grave	Yes
Famous per Consensus	Yes
Find A Grave 2
Find A Grave 3
BillionGraves Record ID
Other websites	https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Talk:George_Kenney
Record Entry Date	2019-09-18 14:54:54
Record Last Edit Date	2020-01-24 23:58:00

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