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Volume 7, Issue 36 - Feature #850

Col. Bob Kirkbride - Candy Bob...

Robin, thanks so much for sharing and updating us on Col. Kirkbride. He sounds like he was one of those pioneer founding fathers of the past that we could surely use more of nowadays. Thanks again for sharing your family information.

NW Okie - 2008-09-24 21:50:38

Robin Wilson Kirkbride was my grandfather. He was not killed when hit with a piece of shot, but was blinded in one eye. His death at age 59 (1947) was from kidney cancer, complicated by diabetes, I sure, and the fact that he probably weighed close to 300 pounds. Don't think he ever went on a diet. His wife, Pearl, lived on until around 1972. My mother just adored him; she is Margery Kirdbride Clyne born 1914 and still living today at age 94. So hope that is a little help, oh his other daughter, Mary Doris Kirkbride Powers is also still living at age 88.

Robin Clyne - 2008-09-24 20:43:20

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