NAME: FOCH KIRBY, AGE 81, LONGTIME WAPANUCKA, OK AREA RESIDENT.

BORN: MARCH 5, 1918 AT CLARITA , OKLAHOMA TO ELIGIA AND LELA (HILBURN) KIRBY. PASSED AWAY: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1999 AT HIS RESIDENCE NORTH OF WAPANUCKA, OK. AGE: 81 YEARS AND 19 DAYS. EDUCATION: ATTENDED SCHOOL AT WILSON AND CLARITA WHERE HE GRADUATED IN 1936. HE ALSO ATTENDED EAST CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY IN ADA, OK. MARRIED: OPAL JENNINGS ON OCTOBER 22,1938 AT STONEWALL, OK. OCCUPATION: FARMER AND RANCHER. CHURCH AFFILIATION: WAPANUCKA BAPTIST CHURCH. FOCH WAS A MASTER MASON AND A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE WAPANUCKA LODGE. HE WAS ONCE A MEMBER OF THE I.O.O.F WHEN WAPANUCKA HAD AN ACTIVE LODGE. SURVIVED BY WIFE: OPAL KIRBY OF THE HOME IN WAPANUCKA, OK. SON: BILL KIRBY AND WIFE NANCY OF WAPANUCKA, OK. GRANDDAUGHTER: DR. DANA KIRBY OF JOHNSON CITY, TN. SISTER: DESSIE ROMINE OF ADA, OK. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: ELIGIA AND LELA KIRBY. BROTHER: BILLY CLAY KIRBY. SISTERS: LUCILLE HARRISON, FRANCIS WILKINS, LELA JUNIOR SANDERS, AND LORENA BELL HUNT.

DATE OF SERVICES: SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1999 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: WAPANUCKA BAPTIST CHURCH. INTERMENT: ROSE HILL CEMETERY ~ WAPANUCKA, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. LARRY SCHOONOVER. ASSISTING: REV. BOB GRAHAM. CASKETBEARERS: SAMMY LOVELACE, HERSCHEL BOLIN, TERRY CANADA, BOBBY GRAHAM, KEITH WOODS, JERREL WOODS. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: ODELL MCCURRY, TOMMY JEMISON, JOHN WOODS, RAYMOND TAYLOR, J.W. REED.