Kennard Wellons, 86, passed away on April 13, 2020. After high school graduation in 1952, Kennard enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and served in the Korean War. He then returned to Jackson, MS in 1954 and graduated from Millsaps College in 1958. He then earned an MSW from Tulane University in 1961. In 1961, he married Pat Blankenship and moved to California where he worked for Sonoma State Hospital. In 1967, they moved to Arizona where Kennard was an assistant professor of Social Work at ASU. Kennard returned to California in 1969 to do a Ph.D. in Social Work at University of California - Berkeley and graduated 1973, specializing in Gerontology. He then took a position of professor at the University of Kentucky College of Social Work and stayed for the next 27 years. Kennard is survived by a son, grandson and multiple nieces and nephews. He is predeceased by a brother and sister. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the Pat B. & Dr. Kennard W. Wellons Scholarship Fund at the University of Kentucky College of Social Work. This fund will benefit education of social work students who are the first in their family to go to college - just as Kennard and Pat were the first generation in their families to go to college. (Source: Arizona Republic)