Dr. John McClure Kerr II, age 77, passed away Thursday, March 10, 2022. He was born October 9, 1944, in Knoxville, Tennessee, to John McClure Kerr and Lorene Oma Self Kerr.
Visitation, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m., Friday, March 11, 2022, at the Hamilton Church of Christ in Hamilton, Alabama. Visitation, 10:00 – 11:45 a.m., Saturday, March 12, 2022, at the church. Funeral service, following at 12:00 noon, at the church. Graveside service and burial, following church service, at the Hamilton Memory Gardens in Weston, Marion County, Alabama.
John attended David Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee and received a Bachelor of Science degree. He attended University and Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington Kentucky and received his Doctor of Medicine Degree. He practiced medicine for 50 years. In December of 1972, he and his family moved to Hamilton, Alabama, where he practiced medicine until his retirement in 2018. He was an active member of the Hamilton Church of Christ. He was also a member of the broad of Directors of Heritage Christian University in Florence, Alabama. He loved gardening and astronomy.
John was preceded in death by his parents, John McClure and Oma Self Kerr, and his brother, Paul Kerr.
He is survived by his precious wife Sara Nell Kerr and his children, Christy Kerr Lundy (Dale), John McClure Kerr III “Johnny” (Nicole), Paul Benjamin Kerr “Ben” (Sonja); his step-children, Melissa Roberson Sansom (Mike), David Roberson (Kaitlin); his grandchildren, Ellie and Gatlin Lundy, Tessa Crawford, Ava, and Johnny Kerr, Hannah Grace, Poppy, Millie, and Jonah Kerr, Graham, Jenna, and Julianna Sansom, Ethan, Emmett, Avi, and Olive Roberson; siblings, David Kerr, Susan Halbert, Colonel James Kerr, Kenneth Kerr, sister-in-law Cindy Kerr ( Paul-deceased) and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other family and friends.
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