EDWARD D. KILPATRICK
December 1, 1920 — December 9, 2008
EDWARD D. KILPATRICK, a resident of the Oakland Community, retired Postal Service Employee and U. S. Veteran died at 6:31 A.M. Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at the Mississippi State Veterans Retirement Home in Oxford where he had resided for five years. He was 88 years of age and died following an extended illness.
Funeral Services With Military Honors were conducted for Mr. Kilpatrick at 2 P.M. Thursday, December 11th at the Peebles West Funeral Chapel in Oakland with Rev. Eddie Little, Pastor of the Hickory Withe First Baptist Church, officiating. Interment followed in the Fayette County Memorial Park Cemetery on Highway 64. Arrangements were provided by Peebles Fayette County Funeral Homes-West Chapel of Oakland.
Mr. Kilpatrick was born December 1, 1920 in Meridian, Mississippi, the son of the late Edward Kilpatrick and the late Doshie Parker Kilpatrick. He received his education in the Huntsville, Alabama Public School System and continued his education at the Jackson Business College in Jackson, Mississippi.
Mr. Kilpatrick served in the United States Air Force from 1942 to 1946 and was married September 14, 1954 to the former Joyce Caldwell of Huntsville, Alabama, who survives. Mrs. Kilpatrick is a retired Professor at the Austin Peay University in Clarksville TN.
Mr. Kilpatrick was of the Baptist faith and served as a Mail Distributor with the United States Postal Service for 34 years before his retirement in 1978. He was a former resident of Memphis and Clarksville and had resided in Fayette County for the past eight years.
He enjoyed electronics and in earlier years was an active member of the American Legion and the Veteran of Foreign Wars Organizations. He was a devoted husband, father and grandfather.
Mr. Kilpatrick is survived by his wife Dr. Joyce Kilpatrick; his son, Larry Joe Nevill (Daphne) of Somerville; two granddaughters, Jessica Nevill Lee of Jackson, TN and Lindsey J. Nevill of Somerville; his grandson, Paul B. Nevill of Arlington and three great-grandchildren.
The family request that Memorials be directed to the Fayette County Chapter of the American Heart Association.