SOUTH PARIS – Lometa Kennedy, 90, of South Paris, died peacefully Friday, Aug. 20, at the Market Square Health and Rehabilitation Center.

She was born in Clondike, Texas on Nov. 27, 1913, the daughter of Wm. Thomas Brack and Lily Mae Morgan Brack. Seeking relief from dust storms during the Great Depression, her family moved from their dry land farm in Texas to Farmington, N.M., where Lometa lived for many years. There she met and married Fred Kennedy, a Kingfield, Maine native, who predeceased her in 1963.

In 1975, she moved to Maine, a place she loved and proud to call home for almost 30 years. In her younger years, she loved fishing and the outdoors. She enjoyed cooking, reading, and creative needle work. Her life evolved around her family.

She is survived by two brothers; Roy Brack, of Farmington, N.M., and Kenneth Brack, of Houston, Texas; two children, Jeanette Baldridge and husband, Don, of West Paris, and Nancy Harvick and husband, Al, of Farmington, N.M.; five grandchildren, Rory Harvick, of Clermont, Fla., Thomas Kennedy, of West Paris, Sandra Zayerakowsky, of Virginia, Vanessa Greeley and Ed Baldridge, both of West Paris; five great-grandchildren, Christopher and Jennifer Harvick, Zachary and Tyler Zayerakowsky, and Sabien LaBay.

She was predeceased by two sisters, four brothers, and her youngest child, Jimmie Kennedy, of Farmington, N.M.