Nellie A. (Miller) Harper Kirby (1964)
BLIGHT, HARPER, KIRBY, MILLER, RIPPY
Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 8/31/2008 at 16:02:44
Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 1965Nellie Kirby of Winterset Dies
Mrs. Nellie Kirby, a resident of this community most of her life, died Wednesday, Dec. 30 at a Winterset nursing home. She was 82 years of age.
Mrs. Kirby was the former Nellie Miller, daughter of Lee and Elizabeth Miller, and was born at Niota, Ill., Jan. 8, 1882. She came to Iowa with her parents as a child.
She was married to Joe Kirby of Winterset on June 1, 1950. He preceded her in death.
Mrs. Kirby is survived by three children from a prior marriage, John Harper, of Lorimor, Buenos Harper, of Winterset, and Mrs. Yvonne Blight (sp ?) of Des Moines; seven grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Cleo Rippy, of St. Petersburg, Fla., a brother, Alfred Miller of Adel.
Funeral services were held Saturday from the Watts and Soll Funeral home in Lorimor, conducted by the Rev. William E. Bowles, pastor of the First Christian Church in Winterset. Burial was made in the Barney cemetery.
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