Ernest & Luther Zirkle

Ernest & Luther Zirkle

Zirkle, Ernest William (1936-2021)

Zirkle, Luther Amos (1938-2017)

Photograph of brothers Ernest W. and Luther A. Zirkle as young children. They were the sons of Clarence Ernest and Bertie Ellen (Bowman) Zirkle, a farming couple from New Market, Virginia. Ernest William Zirkle played baseball for New Market High School and is mentioned in the 1954 yearbook. He married Sylvia Burnette in 1958 while both of them lived in Blacksburg, Virginia. Ernest married a second time more than a quarter century later, in 1984, to Cynthia “Cindy” A. Bretnall. When his brother died in 2017, Ernest was living near Bridgeton, New Jersey, and was a veterinarian. Luther Amos graduated from New Market High School in 1957 and Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1962. He worked as an extension agent for the VPI Cooperative Extension Service. In 1963, he married Carolyn Lee Peters (1941-2018) and spent much of his married life in Cumberland, Cumberland County, Virginia, where he raised a son, Ernest Bruce Zirkle, and a daughter, Amy (Zirkle) Warlitner. He moved back to New Market in 1991 to assist his parents in their final years. Unfortunately, he suffered a stroke in 1994 and was never able to return to Cumberland.

Morrison Studio

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Shenandoah County Library

ca mid 1940's per the identifier.

Identified in March 2003 by their cousin, Betty B. Phillips.

Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.

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