Harold Appleby Kennedy, a resident of Pleasant Hill, California, passed away on Sunday, July 19, 2020 at age 97. Harold was born in 1923 in Springfield, Missouri. He studied at what was Southwest Missouri College (now Missouri State University), also in Springfield. While serving in the United States Army Air Corps, he married his beloved wife Mary Margaret Knabb Kennedy in 1943. Soon after their wedding, he went overseas for two and a half years to serve during World War II. After the war, Harold earned a law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Thereafter, the couple settled in the Washington, D.C. area, where Harold served as an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission for 19 years. Harold and Mary raised four sons in Virginia before moving to the Los Angeles area in 1968. Harold served as an administrative law judge for 20 years. His first judicial assignments were with the Social Security Administration and then with the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. In 1977, they moved to Walnut Creek, California, when Harold became an administrative law judge with the National Labor Relations Board in San Francisco. He retired from the Federal government in 1988 and then served as an arbitrator for many years. Harold and Mary were members of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Pleasant Hill, California.

Harold was a loving and devoted husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and brother. After a blessed marriage of over 66 years, he was predeceased by his wife Mary in 2010. He is survived by four grateful sons, Steven, Laurence, Alan and Philip, four daughters-in-law, 12 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother Ralph Kennedy, who lives in Virginia and many nieces and nephews. Harold will be buried next to his wife Mary in Eastlawn Cemetery in Springfield, Missouri. For more information, please contact Oak Hills Park Mortuary in Walnut Creek, CA or Gorman-Scharpf Funeral Home in Springfield, MO.