Florence Lucile Kirk

F. Lucile Kirk, 94, Tipton, died peacefully on Friday, December 12, 2014, in Transitions Life Care Hospice Facility in Raleigh, North Carolina with her family by her side. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, December 18, 2014 at 10:30 am, St. Mary's Catholic Church in Tipton. Burial will follow in the Tipton Masonic Cemetery. Visitation for Lucile will be held on Wednesday from 4 - 7 pm at Fry Funeral Home, Tipton. Online condolences may be shared at www.fryfuneralhome.com. A memorial fund has been established in her memory for the Tipton Senior Center and Friends of the Animals. In Raleigh, memorials may be sent in her memory to Wake Med Rehab Center or Transitions Life Care Hospice Facility. Lucile was born on September 22, 1920 in Tipton and was raised by her mother, Edith Alberta Willer Eiler. She was a 1938 graduate of the Tipton High School, spent one year at Frances Shimmer College and one year at the University of Iowa. She then returned home to the family farm during WWII to help while her brother was in service. After the war, she worked in Des Moines as a civil service employee She moved to Cedar Rapids to work at Collins Radio where she met her husband. On November 29, 1947 Lucile was united in marriage to Joseph Aloysius Kirk in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. After marriage, she worked at Smith's Ready To Wear Clothing Store and was a study hall monitor in the Tipton High School. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and a past member of St. Mary's Guild and the Eastern Iowa Quilters Association. She became a loving and supportive mother to her son, Robert, and daughter, Vickie. It was important to her for her children to have good character, be kind, respectful and hard working. She was a dedicated and tenacious caregiver to her husband who had a heart condition for many years. She was very creative. She enjoyed her hobbies of cross stitching and hand quilting. She loved doing crossword puzzles and playing bingo. Lucile is survived by her son, Robert J. Kirk of Los Angeles, California, and her daughter, Vickie Peoples and her husband, Ronnie, of Raleigh, North Carolina. Lucile was preceded in death by her husband, Joe Kirk on September 30, 2008, her mother, Edith Eiler and her brothers, Willard Eiler and Harold Eiler. Other special people in her life were her nieces and nephews and their families, Vickie and Ronnie's nephew, Robbie Jackson, Jeff and Kathy Meyer family, special friends on Walters Drive and constant companion, Lucy, the boxer.