Mitchell-Lowndes County GaArchives Obituaries.....Kirbo, Thomas Levi Sr. August 13, 1958
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"The Camilla Enterprise" dated 15 Aug 1958
Obituary of Thomas Levi Kirbo Sr. as written on page 1 of "The Camilla 
Enterprise" dated 15 Aug 1958.  Camilla, Georgia.  
Thomas Levi Kirbo Sr., seventy-nine year old retired Mitchell County farmer, 
died shortly after the noon hour Wednesday, August 13, at the State Hospital in 
Milledgeville where he had been a patient since last fall.  Funeral services 
took place yesterday, Thursday, afternoon at four o'clock in the chapel of 
Bramlett Funeral Home in Camilla.  Officiating was the Rev. Edgar T. Davis, 
Jr., pastor of the First Baptist Church of Camilla, and the pastor of the 
Christian Church in Bainbridge where Mr. Kirbo held membership.  Interment 
followed in the Hopeful Cemetery by the side of his wife, the former Miss Janie 
Coker, native of the Sale City area whom he married in 1907 and who died back 
in 1919 when all the couple's children were still young.  Serving as 
pallbearers were Joe Kirbo of Atlanta, Charles and Bruce Kirbo, both of 
Bainbridge, Joe Kirbo of Atlanta, and Robert and W. W. Kirbo, and Ted Sowa, all 
of Camilla.  Mr. Kirbo was born in Mitchell County on May 15, 1879, the son of 
Joseph Arnold Kirbo and Katherine May Kirbo.  His mother died when he was a 
tiny child.  The family moved to Atlanta when the deceased was a small boy and 
after several years moved back to Mitchell County where they remained.  Mr. 
Kirbo's father was a printer and type setter and worked in Camilla's earliest 
newspaper.  Mr. Kirbo resided up until a few years ago in the Greenwood section 
of Mitchell County where he reared his children and was for a nuber of years a 
successful farmer.  Survivors include one sister, Mrs. Mae Collins of San 
Diego, California; one son, T. L. Kirbo, Jr. of Camilla; four daughters, Mrs. 
Ivey Davis of Camilla, Mrs. J. Lawrence Glenn of the Hinsonton community, Mrs. 
W. B. Fry of Dahlonega, and Mrs. H. Felton Williams of Jacksonville, Fla.  
Eighteen grandchildren also survive.



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