EVELYN STUMP THOMAS KIRBY

(05/16/2001)

Evelyn Stump Thomas Kirby, 84, of Grantsville, died May 11 in St. Joseph's Hospital in Parkersburg after a brief illness. She was known by area residents as "Bob." She was born at Rocksdale in 1917, the daughter of Alvin and Maude Cooper Stump. The Stump homestead was at the mouth of Henry's Fork where it empties into the West Fork of the Little Kanawha. The house was built after the Civil War. Evelyn's birthplace, early photo ( L to R) George Starcher, Alan Stump, Emma Stump, Gay Lowe Stump, George Stump, Maude Carpenter and Wash Starcher. She was a former employee of Rubber Fabricators and a member of the First Baptist Church of Grantsville. Surviving, daughter Judy Hembree of Wadsworth, Ohio; step-daughter, Lena Grubbs of Madison, Alabama; step-son David Kirby of Charleston; sisters Mame Lowe and Emma Brumbaugh of Akron, Ohio. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband Winfield Thomas in 1970 and her second husband Roy Kirby in 1978; brothers, Charles, Alvin, Russell and Leon Stump; sister, Grace Cleavenger; half-sister, Pauline Mace; a stepdaughter, Lydia Evelyn Thomas. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 19, at the First Baptist Church of Grantsville with the Revs. Robert Nicholas and Lewis Villers, and Pastor Allen Stump. Burial will be in the Broomstick Cemetery. Friends may call at the church from 10 a.m. until time of service. John H. Taylor Funeral Home of Spencer in charge of arrangements.

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