THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, June 12, 1996 TAG: 9606120305
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B5 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: VINCENNES, IND. LENGTH: 33 lines
Clarence Oscar Kirk, 89, of 823 North 8th St., Vincennes, Ind., and formerly of Chesapeake, passed away on Saturday at 9:20 p.m. at his residence.
He was born on Aug. 22, 1906, in Vincennes, the son of George and Hattie (Williams) Kirk. He was a 1924 graduate of Vincennes Lincoln High School and he studied at Purdue University for a year and a half. Clarence had been employed as a licensed surveyor doing engineering work for the Departments of Transportation in New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Vermont and Virginia. He had lived in Chesapeake for a number of years, where he was a member of the Masonic Lodge (NU)178 in Chesapeake and the Ruritan Club and the Deep Creek United Methodist Church.
After moving back to Vincennes he began to attend the Community United Methodist Church.
Clarence was preceded in death by his first wife, Mary E. Kirk in November of 1988. He is survived by his second wife, Clotil (Reimers) Kirk, whom he married on May 10, 1989, of Vincennes.
Clarence is also survived by two daughters, Marcia Kirk of Chesapeake, and Rita Voitlin of Williamsburg; one brother, Harold Kirk of Vincennes; three sisters, Dorothy Perry, Antoinette Bosworth and Evelyn Biggs of Vincennes; three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 1 p.m. in Snellings Funeral Home, George Washington Highway Chapel, with internment following at Peninsula Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Thursday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the American Heart Association or the Building Fund of the Deep Creek United Methodist Church.
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