Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Kirk, Mary Elizabeth 1946
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Independent Enterprise 3-7-1946
Independent Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, March 7, 1946
 
Prominent Matron Dies At Hospital
 
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Kirk, 84, a Western pioneer and a long time prominent 
resident of this city, passed on at the Payette General Hospital last Saturday.
 
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church Tuesday afternoon with the 
Rev. C. G. Hannan giving the sermon.  Interment was in Riverside cemetery with 
Landon's in charge.
 
Mrs. Kirk was born in Iowa on Oct. 8, 1861, and a year later her parents came 
west over the plains by ox team.  Their destination was a place in Oregon 
named at that time Butter creek, but which was later changed to Heppner.  The 
family lived there many years, the town being built on part of the place on 
which they lived.
 
She was married to William A. Kirk at Heppner in June 1879 and they continued 
to reside there until 1879 when they moved to Richland.  Mr. Kirk passed away 
Feb. 22, 1903 and shortly afterwards the family moved back to Heppner.  From 
there a few months later they moved to Payette where they have maintained 
their home since.
 
She was a member of the Methodist Church, Lorraine Chapter of the Eastern Star 
and the P.E.O. all of this city.
 
She is survived by three sons Wm. T. Kirk, of Portland, Ore.; Clarence E. and 
Earl E. of this city; 11 grand children and 21 great grand children; two 
sisters, Mrs. Ida Fell and Mrs. Ethel Lassiter, of Pendleton, Ore. and one 
brother, Edgar Ayres of California.
 
A son, Ernest L. Kirk and a daughter Frances May Cundiff died in 1929.

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