Corsicana Daily Sun newspaper - Aug 10, 2005 edition

Mary M. Kirven, Miss


Mary M. Kirven, 72, of Corsicana passed away Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005, at her 
residence.

Wake service will be 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, at Ross and Johnson Mortuary 
Chapel. Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, at Love Chapel 
Missionary Baptist Church, 400 N. Benton St., with Pastor David E. Wilson 
officiating. Interment will follow at Woodland Memorial Park.

Ms. Kirven was born Oct. 18, 1932, in Teague.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Jonas and Lizzie Kirven; and sisters 
and brothers, Dollie Dimple Kirven, Shirley Temple Kirven, R.B. Kirven, Nellie 
Harris, Willie Jean Anderson and Walter Kirven.

Survivors include her niece she reared as her daughter, Ivory Jean Kirven Evans 
of Corsicana; four sisters, Margie Cunningham of Corsicana, Lizzie Holmes of 
Compton, Calif., Jearldene Busby of Stockton, Calif., and Mary L. Kirven of 
Corsicana; brothers, Bobby Kirven of Los Angeles, Calif., and Ollie D. Kirven of 
Coolidge; and several nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Arrangements by Ross and Johnson Mortuary.