Pearson,+Kerry+Lynn


 * Kerry Lynn Pearson**

Kerry Lynn died shortly after our 10-year reunion in 1969. The following letter from her mother was published in the booklet issued in conjunction with that reunion:

To the Reunion Committee, M.V.H.S. - 1959: I am sure Kerry Lynn has not responded to any letter from your committee so I'll brief you in case the information is something you will want to use--or at least know when classmates wonder about Kerry. Today is the last of July. Kerry Lynn is a patient at the City of Hope, Duarte, Calif. in the Los Angeles area. This is her second cancer surgery, the first having been March 7th of this year. Presently, she is seriously ill, with temperatures fluctuating and post operative complications sapping her once bubbling energy. If these problems can be conquered, I'll take Kerry home to Mount Vernon. City of Hope is an internationally known medical center and Kerry has had the best that human hands and science have to offer. Her home is in San Diego--a small unique apartment on the beach. She works at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, where she is an executive secretary to the head of the biochemistry dept., Dr. Frank Hunnekens, a man she had also worked for at the University of Washington. Kerry has travelled throughout the U.S. and has also been to Japan and Hawaii, and, best of all, to her parents, has been home each Christmas except one.