Eva Kirby
March 19, 2021

After one-hundred years of having lived an extraordinary life, Eva Kirby, a brilliant educator and visionary, passed away peacefully on March 19, just two days after her 100^th birthday celebration. She was preceded in death by William Paul Kirby, her beloved husband of 45 years, a dedicated educator and elementary school principal in Los Angeles Unified School District, and her brother, Dr. David Adkisson, and his wife Beverly.

After graduating from UCLA, Mrs. Kirby began her career serving the students of LAUSD as a science teacher at Dorsey High School while a training teacher at USC and a night school counselor at Huntington Park High School. She was also assistant principal of Van Nuys and William Howard Taft high schools, and principal of Verdugo Hills High School, Millikan Junior High School, and North Hollywood High School from which she retired in 1979 after 32 years in education. Throughout all of her accomplishments, perhaps her most important was the training of young men and women to become effective school administrators and at the time of her retirement these administrators stood to show their appreciation for her leadership and guidance.

Mrs. Kirby served the District on numerous committees, was active in professional organizations, and served two terms as president of the North Hollywood Chamber of Commerce while administering the North Hollywood satellite campus of California Lutheran College and teaching graduate courses in education.

Mrs. Kirby and her husband Bill traveled the world on vacations and sabbaticals and after retirement lived an active life in Olympia, Washington. Her activities included teaching a Bible study for legislators on the Capitol campus, and she had a daily radio program leading the county in prayer for our nation. She also worked in jail ministry and gave seminars for the North West Christian Education Conference.

Her brother and his wife Beverly later urged her to move with them to Covenant Village in Turlock, California where she taught Bible studies to large groups and trained others to continue her work. She was chosen Woman of the Year for her teaching and mentoring. She has had many honors bestowed on her during her life’s journey, but considered her greatest honor to be a bearer of the name “Christian” and to serve her Lord.