James L. (Pete) Kidwell, 81, of Clinton, died Nov 6 at the Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge.

Mr. Kidwell served as president of the North Anderson County Utility District Board of Directors. He was a retired supervisor in the Plant and Equipment Division at the Oak Ridge National Lab. After retiring, he served as bailiff in the Anderson County Chancery Court from 1981 – 1992.

Favorite pastimes included outdoor sports, especially fishing and hunting; singing with the Southlanders Quartet and as a self-taught artist. He enjoyed painting landscape scenes in oil and acrylic.

He was a member of Second Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday school and served as a deacon. Mr. Kidwell also belonged to the Alpha Lodge F&AM, Knoxville Scottish Rite Bodies, Kerbela Temple Shrine, Peace Court No. 10 Order of the Amaranth, and had served as a past royal patron and as chaplain of Alpha Lodge for a number of years. He also belonged to the Clinton Chapter Order of the Eastern Star, Anderson County Lodge No. 25 Fraternal Order of Police and had been a member and past president of Clinton Chapter AARP.

His wife, Edith Hendren Kidwell and son, Jimmy and Gary Kidwell, preceded him in death.

He was the son of the late W.C. and Florence Kidwell.

Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Doug and Sharon Kidwell; daughter, Janet Flora; daughters and sons-in-law, Janice and Von Evans; Mary Sue and Leigh Sinnamon; grandchildren, Steve and Danette Evans, Christie Flora-Biddle, David, Lisa and Doug Kidwell, Jim and John Sinnamon and Amanda Kidwell; four great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Audrey and Clifford Gulley, and sister-in-law, Irene Hendren.

Funeral services were held Monday at Clinton Second Baptist Church. A Masonic service was held Sunday at Holley-Gamble Funeral Home Chapel. Burial was at Sunset Cemetery. Sunday school class members were honorary pallbearers.

Source:
Clinton Courier News
10 Nov 1993