Roger L. Chief Kilpatrick

Roger L. Chief Kilpatrick, 67, a long time resident of Ozark passed away Saturday November 29, 2014 at his home.

Funeral services will be held 11 am Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at Sunset Funeral Home Chapel with Bishop Scott Hannen officiating.  Burial with military honors will follow in Newton Cemetery with Sunset Funeral Home directing.  The family will receive friends at the funeral home Tuesday from 10 am until 11 am. Flowers are being accepted or memorials may be made to Covenant Hospice, 104 Rock Bridge Road, Dothan, Alabama 36303.

Mr. Kilpatrick was born January 19, 1947 in Opp, Alabama and he was a 1965 graduate of Carroll High School. He joined the United States Air Force in 1966 and served until he was honorably discharged in 1972. Following his military service he was employed with Hayes, Sikorsky, DynCorp, and at the time of his retirement in 2009 he was working with AFS as a sheet metal aircraft mechanic. Mr. Kilpatrick was of the Ma-Chis Lower Creek Indian Tribe of Alabama and he has done extensive genealogical research on his family heritage. He was preceded in death by his father, Ora Lee Kilpatrick, and his sister, Virginia Smith.

Survivors include his wife Linda Kilpatrick; his sons, Wesley Shan Kilpatrick, Donovan Donna Kilpatrick, Marvin L. Shanell Bell, Roger Lennon Kilpatrick and Keith Audrey Kilpatrick; his mother, Sallie Mae Kilpatrick; his grandchildren, April Davis McDaniel, Joshua Gray, Mary Kilpatrick, Brandy Bell, Emily Ann Williams, Madison Bell, Grayson Williams, Savannah Roessel, Kaden Kilpatrick, Konnor Kilpatrick, Karson Kilpatrick and Sebastian Kilpatrick; great-grandchildren, Blayne McDaniel, Taylor Grace McDaniel and Rylan McDaniel; two brothers, Johnny Kilpatrick and Donnie Kilpatrick; two sisters, Catherine Doran and Barbara Stanford; several nieces and nephews.