Printed in the Times Post , Houston, Mississippi dated May 11 1950
Charles Kirby Dies of Wound
Services for Charles C Kirby were held at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon, May 4, from the Spencer-Sturia Funeral Home in Memphis, with the Rev. Carl McCoy and the Rev. L E Brown officiating. Interment was in Memorial Park in Memphis.
Mr. Kirby died at 10:20 Wednesday morning in the Methodist Hospital in Memphis, where he was admitted shortly after midnight from an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound. The bullet penetrated his brain and he never regained consciousness.
He was 33.
He was a graduate of the Houston High School, and a former resident, until he moved to Greenville, Miss., where he met and married Miss Vestelle James. In 1941 they moved to Memphis, where he accepted employment with the I C Railroad, which position he held at the time of his death.
He was a Baptist, and a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
Surviving his are his wife and one daughter, Mary Catherine Kirby, of Memphis; his mother, Mrs. R C Kirby of Houston; two brothers, Wilson Kirby of Chattanooga, Tenn., and R C Kirby of Houston, and one sister, Mrs. Don E Williams of Little Rock, Ark.
Charles Kirby Dies of Wound
Services for Charles C Kirby were held at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon, May 4, from the Spencer-Sturia Funeral Home in Memphis, with the Rev. Carl McCoy and the Rev. L E Brown officiating. Interment was in Memorial Park in Memphis.
Mr. Kirby died at 10:20 Wednesday morning in the Methodist Hospital in Memphis, where he was admitted shortly after midnight from an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound. The bullet penetrated his brain and he never regained consciousness.
He was 33.
He was a graduate of the Houston High School, and a former resident, until he moved to Greenville, Miss., where he met and married Miss Vestelle James. In 1941 they moved to Memphis, where he accepted employment with the I C Railroad, which position he held at the time of his death.
He was a Baptist, and a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
Surviving his are his wife and one daughter, Mary Catherine Kirby, of Memphis; his mother, Mrs. R C Kirby of Houston; two brothers, Wilson Kirby of Chattanooga, Tenn., and R C Kirby of Houston, and one sister, Mrs. Don E Williams of Little Rock, Ark.
Printed in the Times Post , Houston, Mississippi dated May 11 1950
Charles Kirby Dies of Wound
Services for Charles C Kirby were held at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon, May 4, from the Spencer-Sturia Funeral Home in Memphis, with the Rev. Carl McCoy and the Rev. L E Brown officiating. Interment was in Memorial Park in Memphis.
Mr. Kirby died at 10:20 Wednesday morning in the Methodist Hospital in Memphis, where he was admitted shortly after midnight from an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound. The bullet penetrated his brain and he never regained consciousness.
He was 33.
He was a graduate of the Houston High School, and a former resident, until he moved to Greenville, Miss., where he met and married Miss Vestelle James. In 1941 they moved to Memphis, where he accepted employment with the I C Railroad, which position he held at the time of his death.
He was a Baptist, and a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
Surviving his are his wife and one daughter, Mary Catherine Kirby, of Memphis; his mother, Mrs. R C Kirby of Houston; two brothers, Wilson Kirby of Chattanooga, Tenn., and R C Kirby of Houston, and one sister, Mrs. Don E Williams of Little Rock, Ark.
Charles Kirby Dies of Wound
Services for Charles C Kirby were held at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon, May 4, from the Spencer-Sturia Funeral Home in Memphis, with the Rev. Carl McCoy and the Rev. L E Brown officiating. Interment was in Memorial Park in Memphis.
Mr. Kirby died at 10:20 Wednesday morning in the Methodist Hospital in Memphis, where he was admitted shortly after midnight from an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound. The bullet penetrated his brain and he never regained consciousness.
He was 33.
He was a graduate of the Houston High School, and a former resident, until he moved to Greenville, Miss., where he met and married Miss Vestelle James. In 1941 they moved to Memphis, where he accepted employment with the I C Railroad, which position he held at the time of his death.
He was a Baptist, and a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
Surviving his are his wife and one daughter, Mary Catherine Kirby, of Memphis; his mother, Mrs. R C Kirby of Houston; two brothers, Wilson Kirby of Chattanooga, Tenn., and R C Kirby of Houston, and one sister, Mrs. Don E Williams of Little Rock, Ark.
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