Extracted from The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, TX)
Thursday, March 4, 1976

Sarah Kirksey

BROWNWOOD (RNS) -- Sarah Angeline Kirksey, 94, of Portales, N.M., died at 1:05 a.m. Wednesday in Clovis, N.M., after a lengthy illness.

Graveside services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Jenkins Springs Cemetery in Brown County.

Born Oct. 12, 1881, in Hill County, she married J. E. Kirksey Dec. 20, 1903, at Brownwood. He died in 1919. She was reared in Brownwood and moved to Portales in 1926. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Portales.

Survivors include five sons, J.T. of Wenatchee, Wash., C.T. of Odessa, E.J. of Hereford, N.R. of Rock Spring, Wyo., and C.E. of Clovis, N.M.; three daughters, Virginia Fletcher and Elizabeth Davis, both of Portales, N.M., and Oleta Lane of Sacramento, Calif.; three sisters, Janie McLaughlin and Vina Wyatt, both of Brownwood and Etta Eoff of Blanket; 24 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.