Marjorie "Margie" Burns Kirkpatrick, 84, passed away August 6, 2013. She was born March 11, 1929 and grew up on the family farm in Fall River. She attended a one room school house. Her parents were Morris Patrick and Hilda Charity Radcliff Burns. The family were members of St. Mary's and Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Parishes in Newton. Margie was active in church and school organizabions, a 4-H leader and a literacy volunteer. She was an avid reader as well as a women's state champion trap shooter. She taught herself and later her children to cook, sew and knit. She was a mom who put three complete meals a day on the table for nine people. She was an accomplished seamstress and sewed dresses for all five girls every Easter and Christmas.
She was the embodiment of strength and preservance which she applied with an iron will to overcome handicaps. Her children are filled with love, respect and admirationn for all she was. She attennded Sacred Heart High School and College in Wichita. She graduated with an associate's degree and worked at St. Francis Hospital as a phlebotomist. While working there, she met her husband Max on a blind date. As he was six foot four inches and wearing a fur coat covered in snow, she wondered what she had gotten herself into. Seven children later, we think she was still wonderiing.
Survivors: son, Pat (Rita) Kirkpatrick, Newton; daughter, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Ft. Collins, Colorado; daughter, Joan (Michael Snider) Kirkpatrick, Wichita; daughtere Helen Grotz, Beloit; daughter, Virginia Kirkpatrick, Newton; daughter, Mary (Robert) Simmoneau, Beloit; son, James Kirkpatrick, San Antonio, Texas; 11 grandchildren; four great grandchildren and sister, Margaret Ann Seiwert.
Margie was preceded in death by her husband, Max D. Kirkpatrick. They were married following his World War II and Korean War enlistment. On March 17, 1951 she married Max. They raised their family in Newton. St. Patrrick's Day was always a celebration in the Kirkpatrick family.
Services will be Friday a.m. August 9 at Petersen Funeral Home Chapel.Recitation of the Holy Rosary will be m p.m. Thursday at Petersen Funeral H ome.
