They had children living in Lawrenceville, GA and Elk Grove, California and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Van Kirk's late wife, Imogene, had passed two years prior at age 90, and she had resided at a different senior living community nearby, Sunrise at Five Forks.
A few years ago I wrote about another retirement community, The View, that was being built at the time near the mountain in the Shermantown district of Stone Mountain Village. The shadow of Stone Mountain actually falls on Parks Springs in the evenings, full moons often rise above it, and it's in a perfect position at sunrise. It really blew my mind a little when I first learned back in 2014 that Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, the last surviving member of the crew of the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (and three days later a different crew bombed Nagasaki), had been living so close to the mountain in a retirement community called Park Springs in Stone Mountain, GA, when he died at the age of 93 in 2014. Sunrise August 2017, with Park Springs in the foreground on the right.