Kilgore, Dorothy ‘Irena'(McKissick) wife of Quentin Dale
Burial Date: 2019, 09/20 Age: 85 Lot: 1113 B
D. Irena (McKissick) Kilgore
November 6, 1933 ~ September 16, 2019 (age 85)
D. Irena Kilgore, 85, of Sterling, passed away September 16, 2019 at Sterling Village. She was born November 6, 1933 in Clark County, KS, the daughter of Lee and Mary Creswell McKissick. Irena graduated from Minneola High School in Minneola, KS with the class of 1951, and later received her Teacher’s Certificate from Sterling College. She has resided in Sterling since 1955. Irena was a homemaker. She also worked as an Avon Representative; a cook for Sterling College; and for USD 376 as a bus driver and later as a cook. She was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and MIC Club both of Sterling. On July 30, 1954, Irena was united in marriage with Quentin Kilgore in Glenwood, IA. He preceded her death on July 28, 2015. She is also preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Don and Archie McKissick; three sisters, Emma Lee McKissick, Mary Jane Wilkey, and Ruth Bunker. She is survived by her four daughters, Janet Fuller and husband Ken of Miltonvale, KS, Barbara Viramontez and husband Marty of Wichita, Connie McWhirter and husband Ken of Moran, KS, and Patricia Enoch and husband Mark of Topeka, KS; son, Bill Kilgore and wife Andrea of Sterling; sister-in-law, Ruth McKissick of Minneola, KS; fifteen grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Funeral service will be at 10:00 A.M., Friday, September 20, 2019 at Reformed Presbyterian Church, Sterling with Pastor Brian Wright officiating. Burial will be at the Sterling Community Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2:00 until 7:00 P.M., Thursday, September 19, 2019 at Birzer Funeral Home, Sterling with family present from 5:00 until 7:00 P.M. Memorials may be given to Reformed Presbyterian Church, Sterling in care of Birzer Funeral Home, Sterling.
Floydada, Texas, to Arthur and Audra Chambers. Glenn received his undergraduate degree from North Texas State University and his Masters’ of Divinity from Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology. Glenn served churches in Texas and in Glenwood Springs, Colorado Springs and Denver, Colorado. He served in many leadership roles in the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church including chairman of the conference Board of Trustees, chairman of the conference Council on Finance and Administration and District Superintendent of the Pueblo district. He was known for his quick wit and eloquence in the pulpit. Glenn taught at Denver University’s Iliff School of Theology, was a 32nd degree Mason and was involved in a variety of volunteer organizations during his life. He is survived by his wife Melinda, daughter and son-in-law Deborah and Dieter Martin, son and daughter-in-law Christopher and Ashley Chambers, seven grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his parents and his daughter, Cynthia Syncere. The funeral service will be held at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hutchinson on Tuesday, June 4 at 11am. Memorials may be given to the Sterling United Methodist Church, Trinity United Methodist Church or an organization of donors’ choice in care of Birzer Funeral Home, Sterling.