Elsie Scrivner Kirby, 99, widow of Charles A. Kirby, passed away Thursday at the Compassionate Care Center in Richmond, after a long illness. Mrs. Kirby was a native of Estill County, a daughter of the late Roy Jefferson and Melinda Garrett Scrivner. She was a homemaker, who enjoyed sewing and quilting, and a member of the Ponola Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by a son Richard Dean Kirby; her brothers Henry Valentine Scrinver and Billy Scrivner; her sisters Cora Mae Noland, and Imogene Brandenburg; a granddaughter Peggy Kirby; a daughter-in-law Provie Kirby; and a grandson-in-law Michael Stevens.
Survivors include her sons Douglas Kirby, Jerry (Vydra) Kirby; her daughter Dixie McQueen; her sister Dorthy Boian, Jimmy Scrivner, her grandchildren Ricky (Brenda) Kirby, Timothy (Pam) Kirby, Karen Stevens, Regina (Neal) Oliver, and Matthew (Brittany) Kirby; 12 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2:00 pm Sunday, at Lewis-Abner Home for Funerals, with Bro. Ricky Kirby officiating. Burial will follow in the Doug Kirby Cemetery. Friends may call anytime after 12:00 pm Sunday.
Pallbearers will be Tim Kirby, Matthew Kirby, John Kirby, Michael Kyle Stevens, Jacob Daniel Stevens, and Philip Paul Stevens.