Clare County MI Archives Obituaries.....Kirkpatrick, Clarence April 2, 1950 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Janet Wilkinson Schwartz wilkinschw@aol.com January 30, 2013, 7:49 pm Clare Sentinel, Friday, April 7, 1950, pg. 1 EARLY RESIDENT OF CLARE PASSES SUNDAY EVENING Clarence Kirkpatrick Laid At Rest In Cherry Grove Cemetery Clarence Kirkpatrick, a well known citizen of this city for the past sixty- five years, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at 2:45 o’clock last Friday morning and passed away at this home here at 10:40 o’clock Sunday evening without regaining consciousness. He had been in poor health since being stricken July 25th of last year. He was born the son of John and Sate Kirkpatrick, in Clare, Michigan, August 4, 1884, and passed away here April 2, 1950, at the age of sixty-vie years, seven months and twenty-nine days. He was a resident of Clare all of his life except for a few years spent in Albert, Canada. He was a butcher by trade and was manager of the Westfield & Fall River Lumber Company here until it was sold to Dessert & Brown. He was united in marriage to Ethel Orvis, in Clare, June 11, 1905, and this union was blessed by the birth of five children, now Riley Kirkpatrick, of Clare, Dortha Kirkpatrick, at home, Mrs. Floyd Woodworth, of Clare, Bernard, of Ohio, and Donald, of Clare. He leaves to mourn their loss, the bereaved wife and children; nine grandchildren; and one brother, Floyd, Floyd of Clare. A brother, Robert, passed away in Flint two years ago. Mr. Kirkpatrick served his ward as constable a number of years and was always interested in public affairs. He was a kind and loving husband and father and will be greatly missed by his family and the multitude of friends and good neighbors whom he has been accustomed to greeting when he met them on the streets of Clare for more than half a century. Funeral services were held from the Doherty Funeral Home at 2:00 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, with the Rev. Harold Watson officiating and interment in Cherry Grove Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/clare/obits/k/kirkpatr19640nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb