{"id":95,"date":"2003-12-13T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-13T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2012-06-04T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T16:38:59","slug":"courier-electronic-edition-obits-for-081502","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/courier-electronic-edition-obits-for-081502\/","title":{"rendered":"Courier Electronic Edition: Obits for 081502"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecourier.com\/issues\/2002\/Aug\/obits081502.htm#story5\">Courier Electronic Edition: Obits for 081502<\/a>: &#8220;Harold Hobkirk [son of Ross Tait Hobkirk]<\/p>\n<p>BLUFFTON &#8212; Private graveside services for Harold R. Hobkirk, 84, of Bluffton, will be held at Maple Grove Cemetery, Bluffton.<\/p>\n<p>No visitation will be held.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hobkirk died at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2002, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.<\/p>\n<p>He was born May 30, 1918, in Marlboro, Mass. to Ross T. and Helen (Lee) Hobkirk. He married Julianna Kardos on Aug. 18, 1951, and she died April 14, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hobkirk retired as a mechanical engineer in the steel industry.<\/p>\n<p>He graduated from Marlboro (Mass.) High School, and earned a bachelor&#8217;s degree in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1940.<\/p>\n<p>He was a former member of Elks Lodge 75, Findlay; and Thomas Lodge of Masons, Palmer, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Memorials may be made to Mennonite Memorial Home.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courier Electronic Edition: Obits for 081502: &#8220;Harold Hobkirk [son of Ross Tait Hobkirk] BLUFFTON &#8212; Private graveside services for Harold R. Hobkirk, 84, of Bluffton, will be held at Maple Grove Cemetery, Bluffton. No visitation will be held. Mr. Hobkirk died at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2002, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. He was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/courier-electronic-edition-obits-for-081502\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Courier Electronic Edition: Obits for 081502&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[3,47],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","tag-genealogy","tag-hobkirk","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kermitmurray.com\/genealogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}