Muriel Virginia Grondin Kennedy passed peacefully in her sleep on Jan. 10, 2012. She was the sixth child of 10 children living during the Depression. She was no stranger to hardship but had many happy stories about her family life. It is unthinkable today for a family of twelve to live in a house with three bedrooms and one bathroom, six girls in one bedroom. Muriel was born in Salem, Mass. but her family moved to Lynn, a suburb of Boston, when she was in the second grade. They lived in a French community. English was Muriel's primary language but it wasn't her first.

She married Charles Grondin in 1952 and it wasn't long before they moved west to Kingman, Ariz. Far away from anything familiar. Muriel moved to Fallon in 1964 and called it home, thereafter. Muriel had four children, Kathryn, Richard, Roland and MaryAnn. Kathryn and Roland still live in Fallon. Richard lives in Sparks and MaryAnn lives in Gustavus, Alaska. Her husband of 18 years died in 1970 but even with four children, she was able to manage a household competently.

Muriel Grondin remarried in 1975 to Larry Kennedy who died in 1990.

She is also survived by nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

She will be remembered as the little, silver haired lady that ate breakfast and played Keno at Stockman's. She was loved and will always be cherished as Me'Me', Mom and Muriel.

Memorial service is Monday, Jan. 16, 2012 at Smith's Funeral Home at 3 p.m.