KIRK, Rodney Dale, age 51, died Friday September 26, 2008, Rodney Dale Kirk Sr. went to be
with the Lord, surrounded by his family, after a courageous battle with cancer.

Funeral Service will be 10:30 a.m. on Monday, September 29, 2008, at the Geo.
M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home. Rev. Art Cutshall of the Muscatine Baptist
Chapel will officiate. Casket bearers will be Les Kirk, Rodney Kirk Jr., Gary
Martin, Nathan Kirk, Marvin Smith, Korie Gafeller, Jim Vargus and Don Carroll.
Honorary bearers will be Little Les Kirk, Damian Kirk, Aarin Gafeller, Misty and
Ben Taylor, Brandon Bargar, Lucas Bargar, Corey Phillips, Lisa Rundall and Terri
Logan. Burial will be at Muscatine Memorial Park Cemetery. Following the
interment there will be a time of food and fellowship at the Geo. M.
Wittich-Lewis community room.
Visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, September 28, 2008, at the
funeral home. A memorial fund has been established at the funeral home in
Rodney’s name.
Rodney was born August 12, 1956, in Muscatine, the son of William H. and
Lenora Vargus Kirk. He married Mary Tobias on August 16, 2003, in Muscatine.
He worked for Daufeldt Transport as a commercial driver. He enjoyed bowling,
playing pool and darts, fishing, hunting and running. Rodney loved animals.
He will be deeply missed by his wife, Mary Kirk of Muscatine; two sons,
Rodney Kirk Jr. and his wife, Missy, and Nathan Kirk, all of Muscatine; his
daughter, Heather Gafeller and husband, Gary, of Muscatine; three grandchildren,
Damian Kirk and Korie and Aarin Gafeller; his mother, Lenora Kirk of Muscatine;
two brothers, Leslie Kirk and his wife, Teresa, and Gary Martin and wife, Karen,
all of Muscatine; a sister, Julie Bargar and husband, Jason, of Houston, Texas.
He was preceded in death by his father and maternal and paternal
grandparents