Thelma Kirkpatrick

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Funeral for Thelma Kirkpatrick of Marble Hill will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Hutchings Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Virgil Bunch will officiate. Burial will be in Baker Cemetery.

Friends may call at the chapel from 4-8 p.m. today.

Kirkpatrick, 90, died Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born July 13, 1911, in Bollinger County, daughter of Malachi and Alma C. Allen Baker. She and Oliver Kirkpatrick were married March 1, 1932, at Fredericktown, Mo. He died Jan. 8, 1999.

Kirkpatrick was a lifelong resident of Bollinger County and attended Will Mayfield College.

She taught school at Greenbrier, Mo., in the 1930s, and she and her husband owned a service station and grocery store at Glen Allen, Mo., 14 years. She was a member of Marble Hill United Methodist Church and its United Methodist Women.

Survivors include a son, Gary Kirkpatrick of Lake St. Louis, Mo.; a daughter, Betty Dowd of St. Charles, Mo.; three grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.