Individual Details

Omaha World Herald, Omaha, Nebraska, October 30, 1930, Page 8: Wife Asks Divorce C. E. Kirkpatrick on Cruelty Charge. Accusing her husband of cruelty, Mrs. Edna Kirkpatrick, 540 South Fifty-second Street Wednesday filed suit for divorce against Clarence E. Kirkpatrick, live stock commission merchant. Mrs. Kirkpatrick states that last Thursday night at their home he struck her and later"in a public place," near Fifty-ninth and Center streets, used physical violence against her. On New Year's night, 1928, she alleges, he struck and knocked her down at the Fontenelle. Mrs. Kirkpatrick asks four hundred dollars a month temporary alimony. She states that Mr. Kirkpatrick has an income of 25 thousand dollars annually, and that through their joint efforts since their marriage in January, 1921, he has accumulated property worth 100 thousand dollars. He has life insurance of about 20 thousand dollars, she states. There are no children. A. V. Shotwell is attorney for Mrs. Kirkpatrick.

Omaha World Herald, Omaha, Nebraska, December 14, 1961, Page 49: Kirkpatrick--Edna R., age 73 years, residence Hamilton Hotel. Survived by husband, Clarence E. Kirkpatrick; son, Dale; both Omaha; sister, Ruth Van Camp; nephews, Jack and Robert Van Camp, all of Los Angeles, Cal. Funeral services Thursday, 3 p.m. from the N. P. Swanson Chapel. Internment Forest Lawn Cemetery. N.P. Swanson, 3205 Harney St. 342-1060.

Burial records at Forest Lawn Cemetery indicate that Clarence and Edna were buried the same day. Clarence's obituary was found by the Omaha Public Library.

Birth	Jan 1885	Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa
Marriage	24 Jan 1921	Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa - Clarence Eugene Kirkpatrick
Residence	1930	Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska
Death	14 Dec 1961	Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska
Burial		Forest Lawn Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska

Spouse

Clarence Eugene Kirkpatrick (1889 - 1963)

Father	Basil R. Ball (1841 - 1908)
Mother	Martha A. Pierson (1845 - 1924)