Lori Elizabeth Knight Kennedy
Lori Elizabeth Knight Kennedy was born on August 17, 1970 in Dallas, Tx. She gave her life to Jesus Christ and was baptized on Sept. 14, 1980, at Park Cities Baptist Church, the place she remained lively all through her college years. She graduated from Lake Highlands Excessive Faculty in 1988 and went on to earn bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in science in Speech and Language Issues from Texas Tech College with analysis in pediatric autism. Lori was additionally a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. She continued serving Christ at First Baptist Church Lubbock and was a Dwelling Mission Board summer season missionary in Phoenix in 1994.
Lori started her profession as a speech pathologist in 1994 in Dallas. In 1995 she was commissioned as a two-year Cooperative Baptist Fellowship World Service Corp. missionary to Miami. There she helped set up the inner-city mission Touching Miami with Love and was a volunteer pediatric speech pathologist with Jackson Memorial Hospital. Whereas in Miami, Lori started relationship her Sunday college trainer Eric Kennedy at College Baptist Church. She returned to Dallas in 1997 to attend Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, incomes a Masters diploma in Christian Schooling. She was additionally director of Crossover Ministries at North Dallas Baptist Church and a volunteer speech pathologist for Head Begin.
Lori and Eric married on Oct. 10, 1999, in Dallas and returned to Miami. Lori once more served with Touching Miami with Love and was the assistant director of the Baptist Pupil Union on the College of Miami earlier than devoting herself full-time to the work of speech pathology. Eric and Lori moved to Birmingham, in 2003 the place Eric attended Beeson Divinity Faculty and Lori labored as a speech therapist for Midfield Elementary Faculty. Their treasured son James Ronald Kennedy was born Feb. 1, 2005.
The household moved to Bedford, In., in 2007 to pastor Group Baptist Fellowship. Lori continued serving youngsters at church and as a speech pathologist with the North Lawrence Group Faculty system. She at all times needed a son and a daughter, and on Feb. 25, 2009 God blessed her and Eric with the beginning of their candy daughter, Elizabeth Carol Kennedy.
In 2014 Lori and her household moved to Ringgold, the place Eric turned pastor of Ringgold First Baptist Church and Lori turned a speech pathologist with Catoosa County Public Colleges. The Kennedys fell in love with their church and group in Ringgold and thought of it their residence.
Lori was identified with colorectal most cancers in July, 2021 and went residence to be with Christ on April 26, 2024. She is survived by her loving husband Eric and youngsters James and Ellie, her mother and father Ron and Liz Knight, sister Angie Buja, brother-in-law Evan Buja, nephew Henry Buja, together with quite a few beloved cousins and prolonged household. She was preceded in dying by her grandparents and nephew Ike Buja. Lori can be remembered for her love of Christ, fierce devotion to her household, musical items, God-given skill to assist youngsters converse, braveness, sense of journey, and great humorousness.
Funeral companies can be held at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Might 4, at Ringgold First Baptist Church. Interment will observe at Anderson Memorial Gardens.
The household will obtain associates 3-7 p.m. on Friday and two hours previous to the service on Saturday at Ringgold First Baptist Church.
Preparations are by Heritage Funeral Dwelling & Crematory, Battlefield Parkway.
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