Kermit Runner

Published 12:00 am Friday, February 29, 2008

Kermit Runner of Bowling Green died at 7:48 a.m. Feb. 28, 2008, in Bowling Green.

He was a farmer, a retired employee of Colonial Bakery and a retired maintenance worker for Western Kentucky University. He was a World War II Army veteran and a member of Mount Zion Church of Christ. He was a son of the late Commodore Runner and Evie Manco Runner and the husband of the late Elizabeth “Libby” Runner. He was preceded in death by a sister, Dorothy Gambrel.

Funeral is at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at J.C. Kirby & Son Funeral Home, Lovers Lane chapel, with burial in Bowling Green Gardens. Visitation is from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Online condolences may be made at www.jckirbyandson.com.

Survivors include a son, Steven Runner and his wife, Sara, of Birmingham, Ala.; a daughter, Carma Diane Runner of Bowling Green; seven sisters, Virginia Bell, Alice Smith and her husband, George, Sharon Stewart and her husband, Merle, Patsy Zaicek and Brenda Akin and her husband, Troy, all of Bowling Green, Annetta Farmer and her husband, Raymond, of Franklin and Cheryl King and her husband, Sylvester, of Sonora; a brother, Benjamin Runner and his wife, Juanita, of Bowling Green; four grandchildren, Sean Goodson of Las Vegas, Julie Runner of Richmond, Va., Kelly Goodson of Bowling Green and Brian Runner of Birmingham, Ala.; a great-granddaughter, Lilliah Foote of Bowling Green; and several nieces and nephews.