Bryant - Dec. 31 -
Palmer Gay Shirk, 53, dropped dead this morning
at 10 o'clock while walking along the road near his home two miles north of
Bryant. His death was due to heart disease. He was a lifelong resident of
Jay County.
Surviving are the widow; two sons, Clarell Shirk of
Portland and Palmer Shirk Jr. at home; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Wall of
Pennville and Ruth Shirk at home; one brother, Willard Shirk of Portland;
three sisters, Mrs. Lula Steed, Mrs. Hazel Cecil and Miss Pearl Shirk of
Elkhart, and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 2 o'clock from the Bryant Lutheran Church. Rev. N. Smith will
officiate. Burial will be in Gravel Hill
Cemetery at Bryant.
Journal Gazette
January ?, 1941
Contributed by Margie Roop Pearce and Jim Cox
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SHIRK Bryant, Ind., Jan. 3 – Funeral services for Palmer J. Shirk, 63, were held Tuesday at 3 pm at the Bryant Lutheran Church.
Burial was in Gravel Hill Cemetery, west of Bryant.
Death occurred Sunday at the home north of Bryant. He is survived by the widow, four children, one brother, three sisters and five grandchildren. Fort Wayne News-Sentinel (IN); January 3, 1940
Buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery