Susan Katherine Rehm Kirkpatrick

Susan Katherine Rehm Kirkpatrick, 51, of Pearisburg, Va., went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, August 4, 2009, at Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital in Pearisburg. Mrs. Kirkpatrick was born on April 26, 1958, in Queens, N.Y. and was a daughter of the late Edward Rehm and Christine Suess Rehm. Mrs. Kirkpatrick taught for 20 years at Bayside Lutheran School in Flushing, N.Y. before coming to Virginia and had been teaching third grade at Macy McClaugherty School in Pearisburg for the last six years. She is survived by her husband, Michael N. Kirkpatrick, of Pearisburg; one son and daughter-in-law, Brian W. and Emily Kirkpatrick, of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and two sisters, Linda and her husband, Michael Corsetti, of Maspeth, N.Y. and Veronica and Robert Meyer, of Whiting, N.J. A Funeral Mass will be held Saturday, August 8, 2009, at 2 p.m. at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Pearisburg with Father John Prinelli officiating with burial following in the Birchlawn Burial Park in Pearisburg. The family will receive friends at the Givens Funeral Home in Pearisburg Friday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. Online condolences can be sent to the family at givensfuneralhome.com.