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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/17/2025)

THE PARIS NEWS, Monday, 21 Mar 1988, p. 2: "(picture) Funeral services for James N. (Kirk) Bivens, 503 Brown, will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 23, at Gene Roden's Sons Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. To 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Mr. Bivens died Sunday, March 20, at St. Joseph's Hospital. He was born Dec. 30, 1919, in Atlas, a son of Johnny and Mattie Robinson Bivens. He married Delia Bramlett on Feb. 11, 1941. Surviving are his wife; three sons, James W. Bivens, Sammy Bivens and Eddie Bivens, all of Paris; two daughters, Mrs. Leonard (Sylvia) Hutchings of Paris and Mrs. Jack (Denise) Browning of Detroit; two brothers, Carl Bivens of Paris and Howard Bivens of Dallas; 11 grandchildren; and one great grandchild."

THE LAMAR COUNTY ECHO, 24 Mar 1988: "Funeral services for James N. (Kirk) Bivens, 503 Brown, were held Wednesday, 23 Mar, at Gene Roden's Sons Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Bivens died Sunday, 20 Mar 1988, at St. Joseph's Hospital. He was born 30 Dec 1919, in Atlas, a son of Johnny and Mattie Robinson Bivens. He married Delia Bramlett on Feb 11, 1941. Surviving are his wife; three sons, James W. Bivens, Sammy Bivens and Eddie Bivens, all of Paris; two daughters, Mrs. Leonard (Sylvia) Hutchings of Paris and Mrs. Jack (Denise) Browning of Detroit; two brothers, Carl Bivens of Paris and Howard Bivens of Dallas; 11 grandchildren; and one great grandchild."

Sexton record had "James Kirk Bivens" as name. Tombstone is inscribed, "TEC5, US Army WWII."