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Visitation:
Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 10 - 11 a.m. at
the Atlanta Methodist Church
Service:
Saturday, September 20, 2025 at 11 a.m. at the
church.
Funeral home:
Quiram-Peasley Funeral Home, Atlanta
Obituary
Surrounded by her Earthly family,
Patricia Gail Payne Kirkpatrick, 60, of New London,
Iowa, joined her Heavenly family on Sunday,
September 14, 2025.
Services for Gail will be held on Saturday,
September 20, 2025, at the Atlanta United Methodist
Church. Visitation will begin at 10:00 a.m., to be
followed by a Memorial Service at 11:00 a.m. with
Rev. Deborah J. Johnston officiating. Graveside
services at Hartsburg Union Cemetery will be held at
1:30 p.m. Cremation Rites have been accorded.
Patricia Gail Payne was born February 8, 1965, in
Lincoln, the daughter of Les and Peggy Westen Payne.
She was united in marriage to Douglas Kirkpatrick on
April 2, 1998. He preceded Gail in death on December
23, 2023.
Gail is survived by her parents, Les and Peggy
Payne; three step-children: Stacy (Joe) Jarvis,
Nichole (Micah) Peterson, and Spike Kirkpatrick; six
step-grandchildren; and aunts and uncles: Ann
(Steve) Siltman, Shirley Kavanaugh, Brian (Cindy)
Westen, and John (Ronette) Payne; along with many
cousins.
She was preceded in death by her husband and
grandparents.
Gail was a 1983 graduate of Hartsburg-Emden High
School. She then graduated from Lincoln College,
Mennonite College of Nursing, and Clarkson College,
completing a Family Nurse Practitioner (Master of
Science in Nursing) degree. |
Gail felt a special calling for
caring for the elderly. She had worked as a
traveling nurse, director of nursing at DeWitt
County Nursing Home, an ICU nurse in both Illinois
and Iowa, and completed her career as a Nurse
Practitioner at River Hills Nursing Home in Keokuk,
Iowa.
She was a member of Hartsburg
Methodist church and enjoyed spending time with her
husband, camping, riding motorcycles, and attending
St. Louis Cardinals baseball games. She also loved
dogs and cats and owned many throughout the years.
Memorials may be made to her family or P.A.W.S.,
2031 48th Street, Ft. Madison, Iowa 52627.
Final arrangements are entrusted with Quiram-Peasley
Funeral Home of Atlanta.
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