Mitchell County  Georgia Obituaries Kate Dennard Shirah 1955

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Obituary of Kate Dennard Shirah 
as written in "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 1 Apr 1955.  

Camilla, Georgia.  
Mrs. Kate Dennard Shirah, wife of Charles S. Shirah Sr., 
died early Wednesday, 30 Mar 1955, afternoon  at Mitchell County Hospital after 
suffering a stroke earlier at her home in Pine Cliff community. Funeral services will be 
held this afternoon (Friday), 1 Apr 1955, at 3:00 PM at Hopeful Baptist Church with Rev 
W. A. Addison, of Bainbridge, officiating.  Pall bearers will be Lamar Shirah, Jesse Lee, 
Emory Shirah, Floyd Taylor, Everett Taylor, and Pope Gray. Bramlett Funeral Home of 
Camilla will be in charge of arrangements. Interment will be in the church cemetery.  she 
was a member of Fathers Home Free Will Baptist Church.  She was the daughter of the 
late Nancy Cleveland and Tom Byron Dennard, of Mitchell County.  She was married 47 
years ago to C. S. Shirah who survives her in addition t six daughters, Mrs. W. L. 
Goodson, Mrs. E. C. Palmer, Mrs. W. R. Owen, all of Pelham RFD.  Mrs. E. C. Carroll 
of Sale City, Mrs. O. C. Musselwhite and Mrs. L. E. Pollock, both of Winter Haven, Fla.; 
two sons, George W. Shirah and Charles S. Shirah Jr, both of Pelham RFD; four sisters 
and three brothers and twenty grandchildren.