Our beloved Aunt Wanda was born December 23,1910 at home in Fort Smith, Arkansas to Callie Gwendolyn Landrum Hunt and John Tillman Hunt. Callie Hunt was a housewife and John Hunt was an accomplished attorney, practicing law in Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Wanda passed away peacefully in her sleep
September 28, 2008 in a private personal care home in Houston, Texas at the age of 97.

Wanda is preceded in death by her husband and lifetime love, Brig Gen Edward James Kendricks(USAF),
mother Callie Hunt, father, John Tillman Hunt and sister, Sylvia M. Hunt Kohlman.

Callie and John Hunt moved their two girls, to Muskogee, Oklahoma where they grew up. Wanda became a ballet instructor and moved to San Antonio, Texas where she was ladies sportswear buyer for Frost Brothers Dept store for several years. While attending a dinner party at Peacock Military Academy in San Antonio she met Edward J. Kendricks who was both a psychiatrist and a surgeon in the USAF. They married May 5, 1942
and after a brief honeymoon in Ft Meyers, Florida, Ed went to Cairo Egypt. He was the flight surgeon for the 9th Air Force during WWII. While waiting for WWII to end, Wanda went to art school in Dallas, Texas and became a very gifted painter of landscapes in both oil and water color.

After WWII, Edward was stationed at the Pentagon in Washington DC and was promoted to Brig General.
Wanda became the President of the National Air Force Officers wives Club. Later Ed became the Commandant of The School of Aviation Medicine, Randolph AFB, Texas, where he directed the Space Medicine Program, which later became known as NASA/The Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas.

Upon Edward's death in 1956,Wanda attended the New York School of Interior Design and became an
Interior Designer and a member of NAID. In 1957 Wanda went to Houston and joined Olene Waggoner
Interiors as an Interior Designer. One of her doctors recently stated, "Wanda has decorated all the finest homes
in Houston". She had a very special gift of making everything beautiful, and in perfect harmony. She loved her work and later joined Harris Furniture Studio. Her designing career spanned more than 45 yrs. She renewed her commitment to Jesus Christ in 1958 and she said that God's love inspired her and her work. Wanda also helped build a church in the interior of Mexico and enjoyed working missionary trips to Mexico and Haiti.

Wanda is survived by her nieces and nephews who called her their "Aunt Wanda". Natalie Kohlman Foster, Tomball, Texas, Linda Kendricks Peterson and Doctor Robert Peterson, Laura Peterson Bolyard, Jeffrey Bolyard, Zachary Bolyard, and Amber Bolyard, Kimberly Peterson Poole, Erick Poole, Jacob Poole, and Courtney Poole, all of Leesburg, Virginia. Janet Kendricks Perret and Roger Perret, Lena, Wisconsin, and Kirby H. Bremer, Houston, Texas. Wanda also leaves behind special friends Grace the Standard Poodle and Kelly the Honorary Poodle.

Wanda brought so much love, joy, grace, beauty and wisdom to her family and to all who she came in contact with in her everyday living. She was a perfect example of The Virtuous Woman in Proverbs.

A graveside service will be conducted at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, October 27, 2008 at 2:00 PM.