Davis C. Kirby Jr.

Davis Clark Kirby, Jr. died early in the morning of September 21, 2006 at Memorial Hospital at Easton. He was 91. Born November 29, 1914 in Trappe, MD, he was the son of the late Davis Clark and Ada Naylor Kirby. In 1935 he received a degree in electrical engineering from Duke University. He was an engineer with E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company until joining the U.S. Navy. He served as Public Works Officer from 1942-1946 in Eagle Mountain Lakes, Texas, Plattsburgh Barracks, New York, and Pensacola, FL. At the time of separation from the Navy he held the rank of Lieutenant, U.S.N. On February 14, 1942, he married the former Katherine Augustus Jordan of Ft. Defiance, VA. From 1946 until 1958, he was involved in farming in the Trappe area and was associated with the U.S. Post Office. In 1958 he started his own land surveying business, offering specialized engineering services through an affiliate company, J.R. McCrone, Jr., Inc. of Annapolis. In 1979 this company purchased the land surveying business, opening an Easton office which Mr. Kirby managed until his retirement in 1981. After the death of his wife Katherine Jordan Kirby, Mr. Kirby married Mary Montagu Walke of Easton in 2001. Mr. Kirby served many terms on the vestry of St. Paul’s Church in Trappe of which he was a member until 1985. He later served as a member of the vestry of Holy Trinity Church in Oxford of which he was a member. He also served as a member of the board of directors of the Oxford Museum, was an early member of the Tred Avon Yacht Club, and was a member of the Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club of Easton. Mr. Kirby is survived by his wife, Mary Montagu Kirby; two daughters, Emily Kirby Featherstone and her husband Raymond M., Jr. of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Katherine Kirby Gilson and her husband Christopher T. of Oxford, MD; two brothers, James Thornton Kirby and William Naylor Kirby, both of Easton; four grandchildren, Amy Gilson Twomey of Dallas, TX, Susanna Kirby Gilson of San Francisco, CA, Cynthia Ann Jackey of Greenfield, Indiana, and Raymond McKay Featherstone III of Tipp City, Ohio; and five great-grandchildren, Parker Shaye Twomey, Mia Elizabeth Twomey, and Brooklyn Ray Twomey of Dallas, TX, and Davis Charles Featherstone and Madison Patricia Featherstone of Tipp City, Ohio. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 11:00 AM at the Church of The Holy Trinity Oxford, MD. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations to the Talbot County Historical Society, 25 S. Washington St., Easton, MD 21601. Arrangements are by Fellows, Helfenbein and Newnam Funeral Home, P.A., Easton, MD.