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Show GENE KIRK DIES OF HEART ATTACK D. E. "Gene" Kirk, 64, Milford realtor civic leader and booster, died of a heart attack Saturday, Feb. 7. Accompanied by his wife, he drove to the Wild Bill mine west of Milford, to gather rocks for a rock garden. He was stricken while jacking up his car to change a flat tire. Mrs. Kirk drove the car to highway high-way 21, where two unidentified men transferred Mr. Kirk to their car and rushed him to Milford. He was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Beaver County Hospital. Hos-pital. Funeral services were held Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon in the Milford LDS Chapel. Mr. Kirk was a member of. the Milford1 Junior Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, Milford Lions Club, and Associated As-sociated Civics Clubs of Southern and Eastern Utah. He had been Milford's realtor and a recognized authority on real ' ' " i ir i If. t ' j i r - - r , - ' I ! ' I- -. i r -- - I X , D. E. Kirk estate values since 1913. He was chiefly responsible for most of the new home construction and park beautification in Milford, and it was through his foresight and confidence in the productivity of the sagebrush desert south of Milford Mil-ford that the "Milford Flat" was developed to its present agricultural agricul-tural prosperity. Mr. Kirk, in association with W. H. DeWolfe, drilled the first deep wells for irrigation in the Milford Valley, and he was instrumental in the testing of the area for raising rais-ing certified seed potatoes. Mr. Kirk handled sale of the Boston Land holdings in South Milford to a group of Minersville residents. After his children moved to California, Cal-ifornia, Mr. Kirk continued to make his home in Milford, advertising adver-tising the farming area and encouraging en-couraging agricultural development. develop-ment. In town, while serving on the Milford Town Board, he directed construction of the Milford Fair Grounds and development of the park area on 100 West Street now known as Library Park. Mr. Kirk encouraged exploration explora-tion and further development of the area's "worked out" mines, resulting re-sulting in large amounts of "outside" "out-side" capital being profitably invested in-vested here. At the age of 19 he was mine su- fContinuerT on Back Page) HERE'S MORE ABOUT Gene Kirk Continued from Page One perintendent of the Copper Ranch Mine. The prayer at the home, preceding preced-ing the services, was offered by James Williams. The services, under direction of Bishop Charles Terry, were as follows: fol-lows: Prelude and postlude music, Mrs. Edna Nichols. Richard Leon Jones offered the invocation. Musical numbers were vocal solos by Dan Ferguson, accompanied accompa-nied by Mrs. Dora Pool; and Clifford Clif-ford Williams, accompanied by Mrs. Ann Williams; a duet by Deward Nay and Gladys Whitta-kcr, Whitta-kcr, accompanied by Mrs. Nichols, and a song by a quartet, Jesse Long, Jessie Edlefson,; Gary Anderson An-derson and Lamar Lund, accompanied accompa-nied by Miss Susan McCulley. Speakers were Ira M. Fisher, who made consoling remarks and read the obituary; J. C. -Smith, who told of Mr. Kirk's civic activities activi-ties and his devotion to the progress prog-ress of the Milford area; tribute by Anna Rae Carter of Minersville, and closing remarks by Bishop Terry. J. M. Hughes pronounced the benediction, and the grave, in the Milford City Cemetery, was dedicated dedi-cated by George C. Goodwin. Pallbearers were Kimmel Coon, LaMar Outzen, Dr. Eugene Davie, Warren Johnson, Roldo Turner and Sam Hickman. Honorary pallbearers included George Jefferson, Sam Cline, Victor Vic-tor Muzny, Les Clay, Robert Tom-sik, Tom-sik, Isadore Aitman, George Mayer, May-er, J. R. Murdoek, and Myron Persons. Don Eugene Kirk was born June 1, 1894, in Milford, to John W. and Berley Ann Hickman Kirk. He married Nettie G. Williams at Greenville, June 24, 1912. He is survived by his widow; three sons and three daughters: I J. Delmar Kirk, Milford; Mrs. Maxine Roberts, Van Nuys, Calif.; Mrs. Kathryn Shannon, Sherman ' Oaks, Oalif.; Mrs. Elaine Martin, Sepulveda, Calif.; Douglas C. Kirk, Sherman Oaks, and Jack B. Kirk, Reseda, Calif.; a brother and a sister, sis-ter, John Alva Kirk, Milford, and Mrs. Delia Dallin, Springville, and 15 grandchildren. |