Shirley Ann Kimble

Shirley Kimble

Funeral services for Mrs. Shirley Ann Jackson Kimble, of Miami, Florida, will be held on Thursday, July 9, 2015,at 3 PM at the C. D. Dudley Memorial Chapel at the Dudley Funeral Home. Reverend Andrew Bethea will officiate. Interment will follow in the Dudley Memorial Cemetery.

Mrs. Kimble was born on September 2, 1946, to the late Fred Jackson and Sarah Jackson, and passed away on Tuesday, June 30, 2015. She was the fourth of five children and was preceded in death by her siblings, Lillie, Toby, Doris, and Harold. She graduated from Carver High School and Booker T. Washington Community College in Cottageville, Alabama. In 1963, she was part of the civil rights movement with the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr., and was arrested for these activities. Her name is in the history books in Birmingham, Alabama, in association with the civil rights movement. After moving to New Jersey, she graduated from Kean College in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Shirley was employed at the ARC and D.C.R. in Raritan, New Jersey. She retired due to her declining health.

In 1964, she married James Edward Kimble, and to this union two children, Donna and Rodney, were born and later preceded her in death. Later she was blessed with another daughter, Keisha. She is survived by her husband, James Edward Kimble, her daughters, Keisha (Antonio) Willis, Donna Marie Allen, her loving and devoted grandchildren, Jazman Allen, Keenan Shota Kimble, Richeera and Richard Thomas, Da' Lia Fowler, and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives, and friends.

The family is receiving friends at the home of Keisha Willis, 1325 North Franklin Street, Lot 87, and at 101 Mocking Bird Drive, Dublin.

Services by Dudley Funeral Home of Dublin
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