Extracted from The Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, TX)
Thursday, February 5, 1953

Lonnie L. Kirksey's Funeral Services Here 2 P.M. Friday

Funeral services for Lonnie L. Kirksey, 43, who died Tuesday in a Fort Worth hospital after a long illness, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the chapel of Davis-Morris Funeral Home with Rev. Frank W. Duggan, pastor of the Austin Ave. Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be in Eastlawn Memorial Park.

The body will arrive in Brownwood by train tonight.

Mr. Kirksey, a merchant seaman, was born Feb. 4, 1910, in Brown County.

Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Margie Kirksey of 907 Vincent; his father, Lester E. Kirksey of Fresno, Calif.; a brother, Clyde Kirksey of Houston, and three sisters, Mrs. Gladys Carter of Merced, Calif., Mrs. Maxine Marshall of Compton, Calif., and Mrs. Melvin Lewis, Dallas.