Josephine (Groves) Kirby (1929)

FOSTER, GROVES, KELLY, KIRBY, KLINGMAN, MARTIN

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 2/11/2006 at 15:26:08

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 25, 1929

Josephine, daughter of Alice and Joseph Groves, was born in Adair county, Iowa, March 15, 1882. When a small child she came with her parents to a farm west of Winterset. Later, the family moved to Winterset where they made their home.

Most of her girlhood and young womanhood was spent in Winterset, where she was united in marriage to Herman E. Kirby, April 24, 1902.

To this union were born five children: Robert, of Quantico, Virginia; Mrs. Lorraine Martin and Mrs. Josephine Klingman, of Winterset, and Miss Evelyn and Miss Mary, still in the home.

When a child she united with the Christian church and she later transferred her membership to the Church of Christ, where she wa a devoted and helpful member. Hers was a beautiful faith in Christ and her faith grew with her long illness and suffering. During her last months of her suffering Christ was the center of her whole life. She spent many hours in prayer and reading her Bible. Every hour of suffering was filled with a sweetness and love and she was ever smiling and cheerful.

Her life was filled with love and friendship and thought of others, but her greatest love was her mother love and love of her home.

She departed this life April 17, 1929, aged 47 years, 1 month and 2 days. She leaves besides her husband and children, her father and mother, three sisters and two brothers: Mrs. D. W. Foster, of Truro; Mrs. W. W. Kelly, of Spencer; Lena, in the home; Guy, of Yankton, South Dakota, and Frank, of Los Angeles, California.

Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. F. Clare McCallon, Friday at 2:30 o'clock, at the Church of Christ, and burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.

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