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Full Name Reginald Thomas Kirkwood
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People ID 696218
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First Name Reginald
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Nickname Joe Jr.
Middle Name Thomas
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Surname Kirkwood
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Gender Male
Full Birth Date If Known 1920-05-30
Birth Year 1920
Birth Month 5
Birth Day 30
Full Death Date If Known 2006-09-07
Death Year 2006
Death Month 9
Death Day 7

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Cemetery Grandview Cemetery
Address 9540 Lancaster New Lexington Road SE (Ohio Hwy 37)
City/Town Bremen
County/District Fairfield
State/Province Ohio
Postal/Zip Code 43107
Country/Principality USA
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Joe Kirkwood was a professional golfer on the PGA tour and a film and television actor. He stopped using Reginald in the late 1930s and switched to Joe.

In 1948 he and his father both made the cut for the U.S. Open, the first father son duo to do so, a feat which was not repeated until 2004.

He played the character Joe Palooka in 11 movies and a television series.

Find A Grave says Kirkwood is buried in Ohio but IMDB says he is in Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Apple Valley, California. There is a marker photo for the entry in Ohio but nothing to corroborate the claim he was buried in California. I'm thinking there may have been a funeral in California but that was all it was, a funeral.

Joe Kirkwood Jr. on IMDB.

Joe owned and piloted a series of airplanes. 25-year-old actor Robert Francis, whose star was rising fast in Hollywood, was piloting one of Joe's aircraft when he was killed in a fiery crash on July 31, 1955, along with Joe's golf course business partner, Irving George Meyer, 38, and aspiring actress Ann Russell, 24. The three perished shortly after take-off from the Burbank airport when the plane quickly lost power, stalled, crashed and burst into flames onto Vanowen Street. What remains a mystery is that Meyer was the veteran pilot of the three and Francis lacked formal training or experience but was at the controls. The co-pilot's seat was empty at the time of the crash.

Death Outside A Cemetery (article on the crash of the plane Robert Francis was piloting)






Death Outside A Cemetery - 1955 small plane crash in Burbank, CaliforniaOwner of the plane
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Family Search ID G8W7-4CN
Find A Grave 1 154775353
Famous per Find A Grave
Famous per Consensus Yes
Find A Grave 2
Find A Grave 3
BillionGraves Record ID
Other websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kirkwood_Jr.
Record Entry Date 2021-08-12 09:02:36
Record Last Edit Date 2021-08-12 12:29:02

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