Dr. Joe Stewart Kirkpatrick of Fort Worth, Texas, died on September 6, 1955. He was born December 23, 1915 in Winchester, Ohio, the son of Earl and Lida Kirkpatrick. He attended high school in Columbia, Ohio and Ohio State University, receiving his bachelor of arts degree in 1938. Prior to his entry in medical school, he was employed by General Motors in Flint and Detroit, Michigan as an insurance investigator.
In 1945, Dr. Kirkpatrick entered Ohio State University Medical School in Columbus, from which he was graduated in 1949. He did his internship and residence in Harris Hospital, Fort Worth. He practiced in Fort Worth from 1951 until the time of his death. He was a member of the Tarrant County Medical Society, Thirteenth District Medical Society, Texas Medical Association, American Medical Association, Fort Worth Internist Club, and Alpha Omega Alpha honorary medical fraternity.
He was married on April 16, 1942, to Miss Frieda R. Materna in Flint, Michigan. He is survived by Mrs. Kirkpatrick and two sons; Joel David, 5, and Michael Stephen, 3; his mother Mrs. Lida McMeekin of Worthington, Ohio; one brother, Philip Kirkpatrick of New Orleans; and three sisters, Mrs. Fred B. Smith of Worthington, Mrs. John Neff of Chicago, and Mrs. O.R. Edgington of Englewood, Ohio.
=== === published in the Texas Journal of Medicine, November 1955. Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.
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