This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whitmire, Kirkindoll Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8575 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 14 Apr 2005 Whitmire Hoyt Whitmire, 82, of Rockdale died Friday, April 8, 2005 at Scott and White Hospital in Temple. Funeral services were held 2 p.m. Monday, April 11 at the Phillips and Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale with Rev. John Warren of St. John’s United Methodist Church officiating. Interment followed in the I.O.O.F Cemetery in Rockdale. He was born July 13, 1922 in Port Arthur to Jesse Whitmire and Bessie Kirkindoll Whitmire. He married Ruth Slater on Nov. 17, 1941 at First Baptist Church of Port Arthur. Mr. Whitmire was a WWII veteran serving in the U.S. Navy and was First Class Petty Officer. He was employed at Douglas Aircraft from 1941 to 1942 when he joined the Navy and was stationed on the small Pacific Island of Espirito Santo where he repaired military aircraft. He attended Lamar College and Texas Western at El Paso. Mr. Whitmire, a resident of Rockdale since 1952, worked as a supervisor in mechanical maintenance for Alcoa for 31 years from 1952 to 1983. He was member of St. John’s United Methodist Church in Rockdale.   Mr. Whitmire loved his grandchildren, animals, singing, playing golf, and working with wood. He designed and constructed shelves, picture frames and furniture from old barn wood. Survivors include his wife, Ruth Whitmire of Rockdale; son, Kenneth Whitmire of Austin; two daughters, Janet Anderson and husband Mac of Kerrville and Karen Matous and husband Wesley of Temple; five grandchildren, Kerry Lynn Sagebiel-Murphy and husband John of Tuscon, AZ, Chris Sagebiel of The Redlands, CA, Amy Roundtree of San Antonio, Kyle Matous of Temple and Allison Matous of Temple. Pallbearers included Mac Anderson, Chris Sagebiel, Wesley Matous, Kyle Matous, Kenneth Whitmire, Ben Easterling, John Shoemake and John Michael Weed III. Memorials may be made to St. John’s United Methodist Church, Hilltop and Summit, Rockdale.