Box 1

Contains the contents of two wallets used by Earle Kirkbride including membership cards to organizations like the Franklin Society and the Zoological Society of Philadelphia alongside his driver’s license, a discharge charge from a VA hospital in Wisconsin from 1951 among other things.

This folder contains material related to Earle Kirkbride's stay at Friends Hospital from the end of the April to mid-June of 1967. Most of the documents relate to payment of bills and the Kirkbride's insurance. A prescription form indicates that at some point a doctor prescribed medicine for chest pain.

Includes materials related to Earle's stay at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. Much of it relates to visiting protocols (including slips for when Beatrice paid to stay overnight). At the end of the folder is a letter dated August 16, 1968 from Frank F. Merker, the Hospital Director, informing Beatrice that Earle died on August 15.

This folder consists of an obituary for Earle Kirkbride and correspondence between Beatrice Kirkbride, the Oliver H. Bair Co., and the Veteran's Administratin regarding his funeral arrangements (and payment thereof).

Miscellaneous sketches and drawings attributed to Earle Kirkbride