Some family trees on Ancestry.com attach to him the birth and death dates from the SSDI record for Kenneth W. Kitchen, born 23 Jun 1917, died 15 June 2001, last residence Thermopolis, Hot Springs Co., Wyoming, SSN issued in Colorado before 1951. Accordiing to Findagrave.com, though, that Kenneth Wesley Kitchen was born June 23, 1917, in Loveland, Colorado, to Edward Wheeler and Sadie Frances (Clarkson) Kitchen, and is buried in Kansas.

Linn Co., Missouri marriage records list the marriage on 3 June 1939 in Marceline of Kenneth Kitchen, age 21, and Miss Mary Ellen Lyons, age 18.

1940 census of Linn Co., Missouri, Brookfield, ED 58-6, enumerated 17 April, lists on p. 14A as family #347, at 601 Elliott St:
Kitchen, Kenneth W., 23, traveling salesman, living in Chariton Co., Missouri in 1935; Mary Ellen, wife, 22, living in same place in 1935. Both born in Missouri.