Kirby, Margaret Jean 'Maggie' McGurk

Margaret Jean “Maggie” McGurk Kirby, 86, of Marengo, died Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, at the Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy in Hiawatha. Memorial Service: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Marengo, with Father Joseph Roost officiating. Inurnment will be in Calvary Cemetery, Marengo. The family will receive friends after 9 a.m. Saturday at the church. Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo, is handling arrangements.

A memorial fund has been established.

Maggie is survived by her brother, Lawrence “Skeeter” McGurk of Walford; a sister, Mary Davis of Cedar Rapids; a sister-in-law, Donna McGurk of Cedar Rapids; and 11 nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Jerry in 1986; and a brother, Francis McGurk.

Margaret Jean McGurk was born June 26, 1926, in Marengo, Iowa, the daughter of Joseph T. and M. Maude O'Rourke McGurk. She graduated from Marengo High School in 1944. Maggie attended the University of Iowa, Iowa City, with studies in Liberal Arts/Sciences and Humanities. She married Richard Hadenfeldt and the couple later divorced. Maggie married Jerry Kirby on Aug. 25, 1968. She worked with various businesses, including Amana Refrigeration, Smulekoff's, Big G Foods and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Maggie was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Marengo, the Altar and Rosary Guild and the Marengo American Legion Auxiliary.

Online condolences may be extended to the family at .

Published Nov. 16, 2012 in The Gazette