Extracted from The Waco News Tribune (Waco, TX)
KIRBY, JAMES IRA
James Ira Kirby, 44, died at Sanatorium at 1:55 p.m. Saturday. Funeral services will be held at Compton's Chapel at 10 a.m. Monday, Rev. Richard A. Philpot officiating, burial in Rosemound Cemetery.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Ethel Bigham of Waco and Mrs. Mary Gates of Houston; one brother, M. T. Kirby of Waco.
Pallbearers will be Wesley Gates, Robert Gates, Willie Gates, Truman Smith, Nugent Coleman and Johnny Coleman.
Compton's Funeral Home, 1024 Austin Avenue, phone 98.
Sunday, March 7, 1948