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ObituaryIda Corine Forrey Lofton Kirby, 91, of LaBelle passed away with her loving family at her side early Tuesday morning, March 24, 2009. She was born in LaBelle on Feb. 3, 1918 to Melville E. Forrey (Chairman of the 1st Board of Hendy County Commissioners) and Corine Poole Forrey. The...
Read MoreApril 2, 2009
Miss Ida will always be remembered as such a sweet, special lady. She was a legend in her time and will be truly missed.
Martha Cribbs-Ratliff & Terry Duke
April 02, 2009 | LaBelle, FL
Ida was a wonderful, thoughtful lady. One special memory I have of her is returning to La Belle and having her give me tomatoes to bring home with me. She had a way a making you feel very special. I feel blessed to have known her.
Karen Peers Amundrud
March 30, 2009 | St. Petersburg, FL
Ida touched so many lives with her vivacious personality and warm smile. She had a wonderful gift of making everyone she came in contact with feel very special. My deepest sympathy, thoughts, and prayers to all the family. She was a warm and caring person and we will all miss her very much.
Lana Murphy
March 28, 2009
Please accept our heartfelt sympathy on the passing of one of LaBelle's great pioneers.
~The families of Mattie E. Thomas, Sybil Sirmans, Edith Magill and Inez Magill
March 28, 2009
Ida will be greatly missed. She always loved to see Kacie my daughter. Her eyes would swell with tears and I would know she was thinking of Frankie. What a sweet and wonderful person.
Joseph E Thomas
March 27, 2009 | LaBelle, FL
MJ,
I'm glad that I was able to talk to you today. Your mother was quite the lady. It seems she was always everywhere, organizing and of course taking pictures of everything. I know Kodak is going to miss her a great deal!
We're all going to miss Ida. There's now a hole in LaBelle that will never quite be filled....
Duncan Fields
March 26, 2009 | Bonita Springs, FL
Ida was a wonderful loving person and always had a smile and hug for me. She will be greatly missed.
Catherine Helms--Williams
March 26, 2009 | Lutz, FL
Ida touched many of us; her touch helped make me a better person. She is gone but will not be soon forgotten.
Joe Thomas
March 26, 2009 | LaBelle, FL
If reading an obituary four decades later can cast a sadness upon me, I can only hope that the pleasant memories of a more gracious time sustain the families most closely related to this loss.
I extend my sympathies, but mostly hope those remembrances serve to lighten the load. Anyone that lived in LaBelle, even for a short time, defined LaBelle in terms of the leading ladies of the town.
Such are the legacies that families leave.
Ida was a mainstay in what made...
John Dew
March 26, 2009 | Tampa, FL
