Fred Kirby

Fred J. Kirby

Dec/15/1925 - Jul/05/2008

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Obituary of Fred J. Kirby

CAMDEN- Funeral service for Rev. Fred Javin Kirby, 82, will be held Monday at 2:00 p.m. at Bethesda Free Will Baptist Church with burial to follow in Bethany Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery in Florence. Rev. Benny Wadford and Rev. Rusty Conyers will officiate. The family will receive friends Sunday 7-9 p.m. at Powers Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the National Alzheimer Foundation. Rev. Kirby died, July 05, 2008. Born in Timmonsville, S.C., he was a son of the late Aught Kirby and Anna Carraway Kirby. He was 1953 graduate of Free Will Baptist College in Nashville, Tenn. He served in the United States Navy during WW II and was a gunner’s mate on the USS Cassin Young in the Pacific Theater. He retired as pastor of Bethesda Free Will Baptist Church in Camden and was very instrumental in establishing Free Will Baptist Churches in Oklahoma and South Carolina. He is survived by his wife, Joyce Cook Kirby of 28 years; sons, David (Debra) Kirby of Broken Arrow, Okla., and Charles W. (Kimberly) Brown of Columbia; daughters, Anna (George) Helms of Anderson, S.C., and Linda Gail (Keith) Morgan of Springfield, Tenn.; sister, Darlene Weathersby of Sumter, S.C.; and 12 grandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife, Clemmie Heath Kirby.

Visitation

7/6/2008, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Powers Funeral Home

Funeral Service

7/7/2008, 2:00 PM, Bethesda Free Will Baptist