Barbara Gertrude Kerr

Barbara Gertrude Kerr

Female 1924 - 2010  (85 years)


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  • Name Barbara Gertrude Kerr  [1
    Birth 14 Nov 1924  NY Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Female 
    Death 27 Mar 2010  Bellport, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Cause: CAUS: Age: 85 
    Burial Bellport, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Person ID I16630  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 17 Sep 2023 

    Father Charles S Kerr,   b. 8 Apr 1891, Brewer, , Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Aug 1969, East Patchogue (Brookhaven Memorial Hospital), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Mother Bernice Mina Cornish,   b. 21 Aug 1890, Hampden, Penobscot, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Nov 1974, Bellport, Suffolk, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1918  [2
    Family ID F7047  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Robert Ellis Wayte, ^,   b. 10 Jun 1924   d. Jul 2023, Bellport, Suffolk, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 99 years) 
    Marriage 30 Jan 1943  Middletown, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Children 
     1. Peggy Wayte, <
     2. Bunny Wayte, <
     3. Wendy Wayte, <
     4. Robert Wayte, <,   b. 5 Jul 1955   d. Jul 1979 (Age 24 years)
     5. Perry A. Wayte, <,   b. 9 May 1957   d. 2001 (Age 43 years)
     6. Scott Wayte, <,   b. 28 Dec 1962   d. 28 Dec 2012, Riverhead, Riverhead, Suffolk, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
    Family ID F7046  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 May 2025 

  • Sources 
    1. [S49] Long Island Advance (Long Island Advance, 20 Medford Ave, Patchogue, NY), 4 Feb 1943, p. 5.
      Miss Barbara Gertrude Kerr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kerr of Middletown, Conn., formerly of Bellport, and Robert Ellis Wayte, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wayte of Brookhaven, were married in the bride's home on Saturday at 4 o'clock. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. George L. Withey of the Methodist church.
      ...
      The attendants were Mr. and Mrs. William Valentine, (the former Miss Virginia Kerr). ...

      ... the couple will live in an apartment hotel in Middletown. Mr. Wayte is employed in Pratt and Whitney company in East Hartford, Conn.

      Mr. and Mrs. Wayte were both graduated from the Bellport High school in June, 1943.

    2. [S115] Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington,, Census Place: Patchogue, Suffolk, New York; Roll: 1649; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 21; Image: 1023.0; FHL microfilm: 2341383.

    3. [S947] Ancestry.com, U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-Current (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006)., Tributes; Publication Place: Missouri, USA; URL: http://www.tributes.com/obituary/print_selections/88203998?type=1.

    4. [S1556] Riverhead.patch.com. Online news site, Posted by Lisa Finn (Editor) , January 01, 2013. http://riverhead.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/funeral-services-set-for-man-who-died-in-riverhead-af7bfe201b8d.
      Funeral services are slated to begin Tuesday for man who died tragically on Friday after he was struck by two cars on East Main Street in Riverhead.

      Visitation will be held at Robertaccio Funeral Home in Patchogue on Tuesday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. A religious service will be held at 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

      Wayte was celebrating his 50th birthday when he died Friday night after being struck by two cars on East Main Street in Riverhead, the victim of a hit-and-run, his heartbroken family said Saturday morning.

      On Saturday, his family was in tears as they recalled the tragedy. "It was his birthday," said Jeri Marshall, Wayte's mother-in-law. "He was going to dinner at Cliff's Rendezvous. He was with his children and his wife."

      Wayte's tragic death left his wife Denise and children, Brooke, 24, and Alexandra, 19, devastated.

      "He was wonderful," Marshall said.

      Peggy Bieselin, Wayte's sister, who lost her husband a month ago, was visiting Riverhead to take her brother to dinner for his birthday and was inside the restaurant when the unthinkable happened. Bieselin said Wayte had gone outside to move the car closer to the curb and was struck as he crossed the street back to the restaurant.

      Bieselin said Wayte's family shared their thoughts, remembering the husband and father they loved. "He was devoted to his wife Denise and his two daughters, Brooke and Allie," she said. "He was a big Jets fan, he loved to cook, and he loved his dog, Lucky," she said.

      Wayte, who worked at VTP Transmission Parts in Lindenhurst, was a loving and deeply caring man, she said.

      Wayte also leaves behind his father, Robert Wayte, and two sisters, Bunny Wayte and Wendy Worytko. His mother Barbara and brothers Robbie and Perry pre-deceased him.

      According to motor vehicle accident involving a pedestrian at East Main Street and Union Avenue at 5:40 p.m. on Friday, they arrived to find a male pedestrian pinned beneath a Honda Pilot SUV.

      The victim, identified as Wayte, was pronounced dead at the scene by a responding paramedic with the Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corp.

      According to an investigation conducted at the scene and witness accounts, Wayte was attempting to cross East Main Street from north to south when he was struck by an unknown westbound vehicle and sent into the eastbound lane, where he was struck by a second vehicle, a 2006 Honda Pilot, operated by Ernest Austin, 53, of Glen Rock, Pennsylvania.

      Police said Austin continued driving eastbound for a short distance before stopping after he realized he had struck someone. Austin was not charged in relation to the accident; police are trying to locate the first vehicle that struck Wayte and fled the scene.

      Anyone who witnessed the accident or may have information about the vehicle should call Riverhead Police Detective Division at 631-727-4500 ext. 289.

    5. [S1398] Ancestry.com, U.S., Newspapers.comâ„¢ Obituary Index, 1800s-current (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2019)., Newsday; Publication Date: 29 Mar 2010; Publication Place: New York, New York, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/771645101/?article=de67f7b5-614f-4ca3-8dd8-ca7b5cf5d28b&focus=0.19441038,0.7155346,0.3422888,0.8799019&xid=3355.

    6. [S2028] , Hawkinson Schiller Sewell Hall (N.p.: n.p., n.d.)., Barbara G Kerr.