Gertie Lee Kirby, 83
A grocery store merchant, she was the daughter of Jessie L. and Ellen Freeman Graham; and was preceded in death by her husband, Chester Kirby; brother, Floyd Graham; and sister, Edna Newman.
She is survived by sons, Kenneth and Sephfronia Kirby, Roger and Sandra Kirby, all of McMinnville; grandchildren, Anglea Michelle Hill and Valerie Dawn Hobbs, both of McMinnville and Ronald Alan King of Algood; and six great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. today at McMinnville Victory Freewill Baptist Church with David Lee England officiating. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery.
Thurman Funeral Home of Sparta is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Sept. 23, 2005