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Obit for Harold "Kirk" Klahr

Harold "Kirk" Klahr 

MANCOS, Colo. - Harold "Kirk" Klahr, 97, formerly of Amarillo, Texas, died
Saturday, April 20, 2002.

Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Memory Gardens Cemetery
in Amarillo with the Rev. Jerry Coffman officiating. Arrangements are by
Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors, 5400 S. Bell St.

Mr. Klahr was born May 3, 1904, one of nine children born to Harry Franklin
Klahr and Emma Wycoff Klahr. He was born in Indian Territory in Oklahoma
before it became a state.

He was a retired dairyman in Oklahoma. He loved to work on his dairy farm,
grow fruit trees and can the fruit. He made trips to Idaho in the summer and
fished with Ernest Hemingway in the Big Wood River in Ketchum.

He loved children and reading his Bible. He was the oldest Master Mason in
the Oologah, Okla., Lodge. He was an active member of Southern Baptist
Church his whole life.

Survivors include his wife, Hazel Bernice; two sons, Arthur E. Klahr of
Amarillo and H.R. Klahr and wife, Kimi, of Durango, Colo.; a daughter, Dolly
Gartell and husband, Bill, of Amarillo; a sister, Mamie Breese of Siloam
Springs, Ark.; six grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and two
stepgrandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to any local Masonic Lodge or Masonic
Children's Home.


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