BIRD, Eugene C.: Died 1987

BIRD, COURTNEY, CHAPMAN, STOHLERR, HESSE, MUELLER, ECKBURG, KING

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Date: 9/21/2023 at 16:58:54

VB Reg
5 Feb 1987

Eugene C. Bird

A former Stockport resident, Eugene Clifford Bird, Mesa, Ariz., died Thursday, Jan. 29, at Desert Samaritan Hospital in Mesa. He was 81.

Mr. Bird was born on March 11, 1905, in Mt. Pleasant, the son of Frank and Augusta Courtney Bird. He married Marie Stohler Chapman on Sept. 18, 1938 at Kahoka, Mo.; she died in 1964. He then married Marie Hesse Mueller in 1968 at West Point.

Mr. Bird was a retired farmer.

Surviving are his wife, two sons, Mark Bird of Clearwater, Kan., and Kendall Bird of Crystal Lake, Ill.; a daughter, Mrs. Marjetta Eckburg of Burlington; a sister, Mrs. John King of Mt. Pleasant; 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Prugh's Funeral Home in Burlington.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1987 at 1:30 p.m. at Prugh's Chapel with the Rev. Albert Hauser officiating. Burial will be at Aspen Grove Cemetery in Burlington.

Source: "Scrapbook 1986 - 1988", Pg. 401,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA