KIRKLAND

Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Sunday, August 17, 2008 at 06:03:07 :

Independent Journal
Monday, February 28, 1977
Page 4

THOMAS J. KIRKLAND

Graveside service for Thomas J. Kirkland, lifelong Bloomfield rancher, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Tomales Catholic Cemetery.

Kirkland, 80, died Saturday at his ranch after a short illness. Although born on the Warren Bailey Ranch at Tomales, he had lived in the Bloomfield area since infancy.

Kirkland had been a dairyman until 1923 and has since raised potatoes and sheep. He and his wife, Lois, had been married 53 years.

During the 1930s Kirkland was a catcher on area baseball teams and during the 1930s and 1940s was a member of skeet and trap shoot teams and won many awards. During World War I, he served in the Navy on a submarine chaser in Panama.

Kirkland was a member of the Veterans of World War I, American Legion post of Petaluma and the California Wool Growers.

He also is survived by a son, Thomas C. Kirkland of the family ranch, and four grandchildren.

Recitation of the Rosary will be at 8 p.m. today at the Sorensen Funeral Home, Petaluma.