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Mary Edith Gooch Birch, Monroe Co., KY (1927-2018)

Mary worked hard to raise her children and farmed with her husband for 63 years. She was a homemaker and incredible cook. She was the wife of Robert Birch, who survives.

Mary Edith Gooch Birch, of Tompkinsville, passed January 14, 2018 at the age of 90 years surrounded by her family.

Funeral services will be Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 1pmCT at the Tompkinsville Church of Christ. Burial will follow in the Skaggs Creek Cemetery. Visitation will be at Tompkinsville Church of Christ on Wednesday, January 17, 2018 from 1pm-8pmCT and on Thursday after 8amCT until time of services.



Mary Edith Gooch Birch, Monroe Co., KY (1927-2018)

Born August 8, 1927 in Kings Mountain, KY she was a daughter of the late Wallace & Elva Henry Gooch. She died January 14, 2018 in Tompkinsville, KY, at the age of 90 years, five months, and six days..

She was the wife of Robert Birch, who survives.

Mary worked hard to raise her children and farmed with her husband for 63 years. She was a homemaker and incredible cook.

Mary leaves behind:
  • Her husband, Robert Birch;

  • Four daughters, Kathy (Jason) Page, Kaye (David) Pitcock, Connie (Keith) Dubree, and Tena Birch, all of Tompkinsville;

  • Eight grandchildren, Todd (Jaime) Page, Amy (Allen) Jones, Brookie (Chris) Mullins, Christie (Kirk) Biggerstaff, Chris (Amber) Pitcock, Brian (Lolita) Dubree, Bradley (Jodi) Dubree, and Austin Birch;

  • Fifteen great grandchildren, Mason, Millie and MacClane Page, Ellie and Asa Jones, Addison, Ava, and Adlee Mullins, Clayton, Campbell, and Conner Biggerstaff, John Luke Pitcock, Joseph, Chloe, and Jase Dubree.
In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by one granddaughter Lorie Dawn Page; three great-grandchildren, Jade Dubree, Cullen Biggerstaff, and Emma Pitcock; two brothers Pollard Henry and Marvin Gooch; and three sisters, May Rigsby, Elvera Graysneck and June Williams.

McMurtrey Funeral Home, 2232 Summer Shade Rd., Summer Shade, KY, in charge of arrangements.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.


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