Service: Oct. 10, All Faith Chapel, Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home. Visitation: Oct. 9, funeral home. Burial: Fairmount Cemetery, Davenport. Online condolences: www.hmdfuneralhome.com

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DAVENPORT, Iowa —  Bernice Kirkpatrick, 83, Davenport, formerly of Muscatine, died Oct. 6, at Genesis Medical Center, East Campus in Davenport following a brief illness.

Mrs. Kirkpatrick was born April 18, 1926, Davenport, a daughter of Ernest and Aurelia (Friday) Meyer.  She married Jay E. Kirkpatrick June 28, 1941,  in Lancaster, Mo.  He preceded her in death March 8, 2003. 

She was very proud of her heritage being a direct descendent from one of the first families to farm in Scott County. She was primarily a housewife and homemaker, lovingly raising her children. She enjoyed spending time with her family, crocheting, doing crossword puzzles, watching the “Golden Girls” and enjoying her new friends at Luther Crest.

Memorials can be made to Q.C. Paws, (Rock Island County Animal Shelter), Scott Co. Humane Society or a favorite charity of choice.

Survivors include her daughters and their spouses, Sandra Kendoll, Muscatine, Linda and Donald Sawvell, of Davenport, Patricia and Stephen Mapley, Marilyn and Jim Swinburn, all of Coal Valley, Ill., Dede Turner, and Susan and Don Speer, all of Davenport; 13 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren; her sisters-in-law, always thought more of as sisters, Marge Kirkpatrick, Sophia, N.C. and Betty Kirkpatrick, Phoenix, Ariz. 

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents;  a son, Ronald Kirkpatrick; a granddaughter, Sarah Holder; a son-in-law, Richard Kendoll and sisters-in-law, Gloria Dannon and June Kirkpatrick.