Graveside services will take place Saturday at Fairfield Cemetery for Joe Lee Kirgan, Jr., former owner, editor, and publisher of The Fairfield Recorder, who died Friday, Jan. 29.
Joe Jr. was born March 6, 1930 in Sweetwater to parents Joe Lee Kirgan Sr. and Vaudiene Wilson Kirgan. The family moved to Fairfield in 1945 when his grandfather, LC Kirgan, “Papa”, needed help running the Fairfield…