Kirk Alan Dustin's Obituary
Kirk Alan Dustin
December 11, 1950 - August 5, 2022
Kirk was born in Berlin, NH, but moved with his family at age 7 in 1958 to Albemarle where his father, Charles Dustin, was an executive in Wear Knitters, a textile company. Kirk attended Albemarle schools, worked various jobs locally as a teenager, entered the US Army in the Vietnam war and returned to the Carolinas, where he worked in bricklaying, construction, nursery plant sales and lifeguard industries. Twelve step fellowships really helped pull him toward Christ. He came to know and love Jesus in the late 80’s, after several years of wayward living. In 1994 he met and married Sharon Herdman, and founded Ranger and Associates, a roofing, siding, and guttering company which enabled the couple to help support her three children living in Ohio. Many good laborers helped him be successful.
During 2020, he was diagnosed with throat cancer and entered chemotherapy and radiation treatment. With only 20% of proposed treatment completed, he decided to stop that type of intervention, firmly believing Jesus would either heal him on earth, or in the kingdom to come. He asked Sharon to help him avoid hospitals, emergency rooms, and especially nursing homes.
Early on Friday morning, his wishes came true as he moved from pain and threat of nursing homes to ultimate rest in Jesus.
“Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not afraid for I am by God. I will strengthen thee. I will help thee. I will uphold thee, with my righteous hand.” Isaiah 41:10
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