From email dated February 2, 2004 from Claire Morris: "Mrs. L.V. Kennedy and her three sisters worked in the fields. Her father took their money and got drunk on the weekends."
1920 Census,Both parents born in Illinois married to Adoph Brecht living in El Rio, Oxnard, Venrua County, California, Page 100, sheet 12A
1954 won 1st place for her Sunshine Sponge Cake at the County Fair. aged 78