Francis "Frank" Edward Kenna

Funeral services for Mr. Francis "Frank" Edward Kenna, age 73, of Bonham, Texas, will be held in Needles, California and layed to rest at the Needles-Riverview Cemetery.  Local services are under the direction of Wise Funeral Home in Bonham, Texas and the Desert Lawn Funeral Home in the Mojave Valley, Arizona will oversee services in Arizona and California.  Mr. Kenna passed away in Bonham, Texas at his residence on December 12, 2021.

Frank was born on April 2, 1948, in Parker, Arizona, the son of the late Frank Edward Kenna and Blanche Vavages Kenna.  He was a graduate of the Needles California High School and attended college and served in the United States Navy for two years.  He attended Rio Hondo college and played football for the Rhinos farm team out of Santa Anna from 1976-1978. He was a huge sports fan. He worked as a lineman for Edison Electric for several years and was a certified peer group counselor for the Clyde Cosper Texas State Veterans Nursing Home and the Sam Rayburn Memorial Veterans Center.  He was Catholic and enjoyed golfing, fishing, and hunting.  He was proud to be a Native American and was a member of the Fort Mojave Tribal Council.

He is survived by his wife, Tammie Kenna of Bonham, two sons, A.J. Kenna, Nicholas Dorau and his wife Stephanie, two daughters, Katie Sackett and her husband Howard, Cassie Dorau and hre husband Brian Vogel, brother Mike Kenna, sisters Bernadette Diaz and her husband Richard, and Patsy Madueno, grandchildren, McKenna Sackett, Mercedes Oliver and Kodi Dorau, numerous extended families and a host of friends.

You may sign the online guest register at www.wisefuneralhome.com