Born and raised in Fisher,
Champaign County, Illinois, the Rev David Kidd moved with his family to
Gainesville, Florida in 1953. He graduated from PK Yonge Lab School in
1954 and from the University of Florida in 1959, receiving a BS in
Forestry with honors. Commissioned at Second Lieutenant, Regular Army
Artillery, he reported for duty with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort
Bragg, NC, a week after graduation.
In April 1960, then-Lt Kidd
and Margaret Clark Bache were married at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church,
Gainesville. After a week's honeymoon in Sarasota, where Margaret was
intern teaching, he returned to duty at Ft. Bragg in preparation for
deployment to Okinawa, while she returned to Florida State University
to graduate in August, joining him on Okinawa in October 1960. Fr. Dave
and Margaret have two daughters; Robin, born in Okinawa in 1961, and
Karen, born at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, in 1963. They have three grandsons.
Fr.
Dave resigned his commission in October 1954 and went to work as a
professional forester with Hudson Pulp and Paper Corp in Palatka,
Florida. In August of 1973, Fr. Dave and Margaret packed up the family
and moved to Evanston, IL, where he attended Seabury-Western
Theological Seminary, graduating in May 1976 and returning to Florida
to serve as Curate at St. Catherine's, Jacksonville and
Deacon/Priest-in-Charge at St. James, Macclenny. In December1978, Fr.
Dave accepted a call to serve newly-formed St. Alban's, Chiefland and
historic Christ Church, Cedar Key, and later, St. Barnabas, Williston.
From August 1987 through October 1996, Fr. Dave served at Church of
Nativity, Jacksonville.
Twenty years of service as a priest in
the Diocese of Florida came to an end when Fr. Dave accepted a call to
Church of the Transfiguration, Rome, and St. James Church, Cedartown in
the Diocese of Atlanta. The move also marked the end of Margaret's 22
years as an elementary school teacher in the State of Florida. Fr. Dave
joined Margaret in retirement on July 1, 2002, and they returned to
Florida, living as neighbors to the North Florida Council Boy Scouts of
America's Baden Powell Scout Reservation south of Melrose.
Fr.
Dave served, on call, as a supply priest for a number of congregations
in the Diocese prior to accepting the call to be Interim Vicar for St.
Bartholomew's beginning February 1, 2005.