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==Background==
==Background==
Kilpatrick was born in Farmerville in Union Parish, to Edgar Noel Kilpatrick and the former Effie Mae Hicks. Edgar Kilpatrick began a small funeral business in Farmerville in 1927 and also worked as a letter carrier. In 1935, the company opened another funeral home in Bernice, also in Union Parish. On [[Thanksgiving Day]] 1944, E. N. Kilpatrick was felled by a [[stroke]] and left paralyzed for the last decade of his life. K. D. and his younger brother, Tex R. Kilpatrick, thereafter worked with their mother in the family business.<ref name=history>{{cite web|url=http://www.rustonfunerals.com/history.php|title=History of Kilpatrick Funeral Homes|publisher=rustonfunerals.com|accessdate=March 21, 2010; no longer on-line}}</ref> K. D. recalls that the stroke "left my father an invalid, although he was to live for ten more years. [Because of] his paralysis, I was forced to become a man overnight. It was during [[World War II]], and there were no adult men to help us. So, as a teenager, I joined my mother in rearing my sister and brother and in keeping our business together."<ref name=history/>
Kilpatrick was born in Farmerville in Union Parish, to Edgar Noel Kilpatrick and the former Effie Mae Hicks. Edgar Kilpatrick began a small funeral business in Farmerville in 1927 and also worked as a letter carrier. In 1935, the company opened another funeral home in Bernice, also in Union Parish. On [[Thanksgiving Day]] 1944, E. N. Kilpatrick was felled by a [[stroke]] and left paralyzed for the last decade of his life. K. D. and his younger brother, Tex R. Kilpatrick, thereafter worked with their mother in the family business.<ref name=history>{{cite web|url=http://www.rustonfunerals.com/history.php|title=History of Kilpatrick Funeral Homes|publisher=rustonfunerals.com|accessdate=March 21, 2010; no longer on-line}}</ref>
K. D. Kilpatrick recalls that the stroke "left my father an invalid, although he was to live for ten more years. [Because of] his paralysis, I was forced to become a man overnight. It was during [[World War II]], and there were no adult men to help us. So, as a teenager, I joined my mother in rearing my sister and brother and in keeping our business together."<ref name=history/>
==Leader in the funeral industry==
==Leader in the funeral industry==