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John Foster Kindle

4 May 1887 – 24 Dec 1961

Birth	4 May 1887
Death	24 Dec 1961
Cemetery	Olympus Cemetery Childress , Childress County , Texas , USA
Added by	Fred Kindle on 15 Jun 2004
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6333575

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John Foster Kindle, 74, died at 3:45 p.m. Sunday at the family home, 1810 I N.W. after a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Calvary Baptist Church by Rev. Gordon Highfill, pastor, and Jimmy Smith, pastor of Cee Vee Baptist Church. Pallbearers will be Lowell and Thurman Dement. Troy and Roy Rogers, Will H. Smith and Frank Mitchell. Interment will be in the Olympus Community Cemetery by Newberry Funeral Home. Mr. Kindle was born May 4, 1887 at Mineola, Texas and retired from farming about nine years ago because of health. He had farmed in the Olympus Community since 1906 when he came here from Mineola and served three terms at Olympus as County Commissioner in the 1920's. He also served as Sunday School Superintendent of the rural Baptist Church of that community for many years. He was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church. Survivors are his wife, Effie of the home; one daughter, Mrs. Grace Seal of Childress: five sons, Clifford of Amarillo, Robert of Muleshoe, Harold of Pampa, Louis of Mercedes, California; brothers, Elzy and Walter Kindle, both of Childress, Delmas Kindle of Lefors and Syl Kindle of Gladewater; three sisters, Mrs. Ella King of Pampa, Mrs. Mary Hall of Odessa, Mrs. Icy Lankford of Cress, California; 27 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. The Childress Index December 26, 1961 Submitted by Angie Mitchell Martin

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Parents

• Lewis Frank Kindle 1862–1927
• Margaret Elizabeth Fisher Kindle 1866–1954

Spouse

• Effie Stone Kindle 1891–1967

Siblings

• Lucy E. Kindle Peters 1881–1946
• Tabitha Ann Kindle Huggins 1885–1935
• Mary Perdie Kindle Hall 1890–1976
• Walter Henry Kindle 1892–1964
• Alvy Arnold Kindle 1895–1961
• Ella Lou Kindle King 1898–1992
• Sylvester "Ken" Kindle 1900–2001
• Elzy Frank Kindle 1907–1992
• Icy Evelyn Kindle Lankford 1909–1995
• Delmas Leon Kindle 1911–1975

Children

• Alma Jewel Kindle 1910–1919
• Louis Edward Kindle 1911–1989
• John Marvin Kindle 1913–1914
• Clifford Paul Kindle 1915–1988
• Robert Rector Kindle 1917–1995
• Grace Bell Kindle Seal 1919–1992
• Jim Harold Kindle 1922–2008
• Otis D Kindle 1924–2001
• Ruth Kindle 1928–1928

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