Ralph Kinnick, 84, of Kooskia, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, at Clearwater Health and Rehabilitation in Orofino, of sudden heart failure. He had been a resident at Clearwater Health and Rehabilitation since October 2009. Ralph was born Dec. 31, 1926, at Big Cedar outside Kooskia, to Charles E. and Maud Marsh Kinnick. He attended Big Cedar School through the eighth grade.
On Oct. 16, 1948, he married Violet E. Baldwin in Grangeville and they shared 62 years together.
At age 18, in 1944, Ralph went to work for the Forest Service until 1950, when he went to work on the construction of U.S. Highway 12 up the Lochsa in the Fish Creek area. In 1953, Ralph moved his family from Pete King to Tahoe Ridge, where he began working as a mechanic and bus driver for the Kooskia School District. In 1957, he began his lifelong career in the lumber industries, starting with Zelners Lumber Co. in Kooskia to retiring from Kamiah Mills in 1988.
You could always find Ralph hunting in the fall, and fishing and camping in the summer with his family. He loved the outdoors.
Ralph was preceded in death by two daughters, Nancy and Sharon; his parents, Charles and Maud Kinnick; four brothers, Stanley, Woodrow, Lewis and George; and four sisters, Ruby Rasmusson, Hazel Space, Muriel Ulmer and Alice Schlieper.
Ralph is survived by his wife, Violet of Kamiah; his five children, Lewis and Robin Kinnick of Fernly, Nev., Gary and Sherry Kinnick of Harpster, Donna and Dale Graber of Lewiston, Karen and Lonnie Smith of Kooskia, and Mikel Kinnick of Bay Minette, Ala.; 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Donations in Ralph's name may be made to donor's charity of choice.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. today at Tahoe Mountain Rest Cemetery near Kooskia. A covered-dish dinner for family and friends will follow at Kooskia Community Center. Arrangements are by Trenary Funeral Home of Kooskia.
(The Lewiston Tribune, September 17, 2011)
On Oct. 16, 1948, he married Violet E. Baldwin in Grangeville and they shared 62 years together.
At age 18, in 1944, Ralph went to work for the Forest Service until 1950, when he went to work on the construction of U.S. Highway 12 up the Lochsa in the Fish Creek area. In 1953, Ralph moved his family from Pete King to Tahoe Ridge, where he began working as a mechanic and bus driver for the Kooskia School District. In 1957, he began his lifelong career in the lumber industries, starting with Zelners Lumber Co. in Kooskia to retiring from Kamiah Mills in 1988.
You could always find Ralph hunting in the fall, and fishing and camping in the summer with his family. He loved the outdoors.
Ralph was preceded in death by two daughters, Nancy and Sharon; his parents, Charles and Maud Kinnick; four brothers, Stanley, Woodrow, Lewis and George; and four sisters, Ruby Rasmusson, Hazel Space, Muriel Ulmer and Alice Schlieper.
Ralph is survived by his wife, Violet of Kamiah; his five children, Lewis and Robin Kinnick of Fernly, Nev., Gary and Sherry Kinnick of Harpster, Donna and Dale Graber of Lewiston, Karen and Lonnie Smith of Kooskia, and Mikel Kinnick of Bay Minette, Ala.; 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Donations in Ralph's name may be made to donor's charity of choice.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. today at Tahoe Mountain Rest Cemetery near Kooskia. A covered-dish dinner for family and friends will follow at Kooskia Community Center. Arrangements are by Trenary Funeral Home of Kooskia.
(The Lewiston Tribune, September 17, 2011)
Ralph Kinnick, 84, of Kooskia, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, at Clearwater Health and Rehabilitation in Orofino, of sudden heart failure. He had been a resident at Clearwater Health and Rehabilitation since October 2009. Ralph was born Dec. 31, 1926, at Big Cedar outside Kooskia, to Charles E. and Maud Marsh Kinnick. He attended Big Cedar School through the eighth grade.
On Oct. 16, 1948, he married Violet E. Baldwin in Grangeville and they shared 62 years together.
At age 18, in 1944, Ralph went to work for the Forest Service until 1950, when he went to work on the construction of U.S. Highway 12 up the Lochsa in the Fish Creek area. In 1953, Ralph moved his family from Pete King to Tahoe Ridge, where he began working as a mechanic and bus driver for the Kooskia School District. In 1957, he began his lifelong career in the lumber industries, starting with Zelners Lumber Co. in Kooskia to retiring from Kamiah Mills in 1988.
You could always find Ralph hunting in the fall, and fishing and camping in the summer with his family. He loved the outdoors.
Ralph was preceded in death by two daughters, Nancy and Sharon; his parents, Charles and Maud Kinnick; four brothers, Stanley, Woodrow, Lewis and George; and four sisters, Ruby Rasmusson, Hazel Space, Muriel Ulmer and Alice Schlieper.
Ralph is survived by his wife, Violet of Kamiah; his five children, Lewis and Robin Kinnick of Fernly, Nev., Gary and Sherry Kinnick of Harpster, Donna and Dale Graber of Lewiston, Karen and Lonnie Smith of Kooskia, and Mikel Kinnick of Bay Minette, Ala.; 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Donations in Ralph's name may be made to donor's charity of choice.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. today at Tahoe Mountain Rest Cemetery near Kooskia. A covered-dish dinner for family and friends will follow at Kooskia Community Center. Arrangements are by Trenary Funeral Home of Kooskia.
(The Lewiston Tribune, September 17, 2011)
On Oct. 16, 1948, he married Violet E. Baldwin in Grangeville and they shared 62 years together.
At age 18, in 1944, Ralph went to work for the Forest Service until 1950, when he went to work on the construction of U.S. Highway 12 up the Lochsa in the Fish Creek area. In 1953, Ralph moved his family from Pete King to Tahoe Ridge, where he began working as a mechanic and bus driver for the Kooskia School District. In 1957, he began his lifelong career in the lumber industries, starting with Zelners Lumber Co. in Kooskia to retiring from Kamiah Mills in 1988.
You could always find Ralph hunting in the fall, and fishing and camping in the summer with his family. He loved the outdoors.
Ralph was preceded in death by two daughters, Nancy and Sharon; his parents, Charles and Maud Kinnick; four brothers, Stanley, Woodrow, Lewis and George; and four sisters, Ruby Rasmusson, Hazel Space, Muriel Ulmer and Alice Schlieper.
Ralph is survived by his wife, Violet of Kamiah; his five children, Lewis and Robin Kinnick of Fernly, Nev., Gary and Sherry Kinnick of Harpster, Donna and Dale Graber of Lewiston, Karen and Lonnie Smith of Kooskia, and Mikel Kinnick of Bay Minette, Ala.; 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Donations in Ralph's name may be made to donor's charity of choice.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. today at Tahoe Mountain Rest Cemetery near Kooskia. A covered-dish dinner for family and friends will follow at Kooskia Community Center. Arrangements are by Trenary Funeral Home of Kooskia.
(The Lewiston Tribune, September 17, 2011)
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