Linda M. Kirk

Linda M. Kirk

84, of Mooresville, passed away on January 12, 2024 at Miller’s Merry Manor in Mooresville. Linda was born on April 20, 1939 in Georgetown, Illinois to the late Benjamin E. Spickard and Margaret L. (Carrigan) Spickard.

After graduating from Griffith High School in Northwest Indiana, she worked as a secretary for Purdue University and for Town & Country Interiors in DeMotte. She was united in marriage to Newell “Gene” Kirk on July 24, 1958. She enjoyed spending the summers at their lake cottage in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where there were plenty of great memories made with family, spending time in nature, cooking, swimming, and fishing. She was very creative and was an avid oil painter, working with ceramics, knitting, crocheting, and collecting antiques. She will be remembered for her outgoing personality, who never knew a stranger as well as her caring, loving heart.

She is survived by her husband of 65 years, Gene Kirk; son Christopher T. Kirk (Shelia); daughter Lisa Kirk; grandchildren Emily, Ainsley, and Benjamin.

Family and friends will gather to celebrate Linda’s life on Sunday, January 21^st from 12-2pm at Carlisle Branson Funeral Service & Crematory, with services beginning at 2pm Sunday in the funeral home Burial will follow the services in White Lick Cemetery, Mooresville.

In keeping with Linda’s love of nature and the outdoors, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions are encouraged to be made in her memory to the Nature Conservancy  620 E Ohio St, Indianapolis, IN 46202, https://www.nature.org/en-us/  or to the donor’s favorite charity.

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