Obit of Kindblade, Harry Joe - Caddo County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 30 Jan 2005 Return to Caddo County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/caddo/caddo.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Lawton Constitution 6 Jan 2005 Harry Joe Kindblade CARNEGIE Funeral for Harry Joe Kindblade, 73, Carnegie, will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Anadarko, with Mel Sullivan and Joe Bailey officiating. Mr. Kindblade died Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005, at his home. Burial will be at Carnegie Cemetery under direction of Steverson Funeral Home, Anadarko. He was born March 7, 1931, south of Carnegie to John and Malinda Base Kindblade. He attended West Spring Valley School from first through eighth grades. He attended Carnegie High School and raised Hampshire hogs and Hereford cattle. He showed his hogs in FFA and was named Star Farmer of Oklahoma in 1949. He attended Oklahoma State University for two years and was involved in Alpha Gamma Rho, the agriculture fraternity. He moved to the family ranch and started a sheep herd with 1,000 head. He was drafted into the Army in 1952 and sold his sheep herd. He was in the 43rd Engineers Construction Battalion and was stationed in Japan during the Korean War. He was released from the Army in 1954 at Fort Carson, Colo. He returned to the Kindblade Ranch and began farming and ranching with sheep and cattle. He also drew a homestead in Idaho. He married Carolyn Joyce Willis on Jan. 13, 1957, and they lived at the Kindblade Ranch. They went to Idaho in the summer of 1957 and selected their homestead, where he began a sheep operation. He was a photographer, a whitewater rafting guide in the 1970s and worked several years in one of the placer gold mines in Alaska. He returned to the Oklahoma ranch in 1996 and had mules for trail riding during the past several years. He married Linda Steed Bunn on Nov. 23, 1998, and they lived at the ranch. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Survivors include his wife, of the home; a son, Stanley Joe Kindblade, Carnegie; two daughters: Joe Lynn McKelvey, Rockwall, Texas; and Mary Luann Kindblade, Anadarko; two granddaughters: Katelyn Ashton and Nikita Jefferson; an uncle, James Kindblade, Lawton; other relatives; and many friends. He was preceded in death by his parents and his grandparents: Harry and Amelia Kindblade and Joseph Peter and Susanna Base. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. Friends may call from 9 a.m to 9 p.m. today and from 9-1 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. The family will visit with friends from 7-9 p.m. today. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Caddo County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/caddo/caddo.html