Mount Pleasant – Merida (née: Price) Kirk-Griffie, age 94, passed away peacefully at home early Friday morning, June 16, 2023.

Merida was born in Enterprise, Mississippi on February 14, 1929 to the late Alphonzo and Merida (née: Cole) Price. She married David Kirk in 1947 and he passed away in 1972. Later, she married William Charles Griffie, who passed away in 2006.

Merida was a Mother Board Member of Searching Together Missionary Baptist Church. Merida worked in environmental services for the Danish Home, St. Luke's Hospital, Rainfair and JI Case Corp., from where she retired. Among her interests, she enjoyed cooking, sewing, exercising, shooting pool & darts, dancing and family gatherings.

Surviving are her daughters, Dianna Hines and Evelyn Kirk; and sister Lillie Louella Price; daughter in-law Rose Kirk, son in-law Claude B. (Mary) Hamilton,  seven grand -children, and four great- grand- children.

In addition to her parents & husbands-, Mother Kirk-Griffie was preceded in death by her daughter Lottie Bell Price, her son's; Zenith Kirk, David Kirk, Jr., and Willie Kirk, and five brothers and six sisters.

Special friends; Mary Lacy, Donald Gillispie, David Landry, Archie Monroe, and Rickey Moore.

A Homegoing Celebration will be held at Searching Together Missionary Baptist Church, 825  21 ^st Street in Racine, on Saturday, June 24th, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. with Chaplain Evelyn Kirk officiating. Viewing will be in the church on Saturday from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Private family committal will take place on Wednesday June 28 ^th , 2023, at 9:00 am in Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery.

Service Details

A Homegoing Celebration will be held at Searching Together Missionary Baptist Church, 825  21 ^st Street in Racine, on Saturday, June 24th, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. with Chaplain Evelyn Kirk officiating. Viewing will be in the church on Saturday from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Private family committal will take place on Wednesday June 28 ^th , 2023, at 9:00 am in Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery.

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