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In Loving Memory Of JOHN E. KIMBLE, SR. John
E. Kimble Sr., 85, of Brown’s Run, New Freeport, PA died peacefully in his
sleep Dec. 30 after a long illness. Mr. Kimble was a retired master sergeant and
aircraft mechanic in the U.S Air Force, serving with distinction from 1944 to
1967, with active duty in WWII and the Korean Conflict and combat duty in the
Vietnam War. After his military retirement, he became a plant engineer for Blue
Bird Body Co. building assembly lines at factories in Georgia, Virginia, Iowa
and Quebec. He retired to his family home on Brown’s Run in 1995, about a mile
from the home where he was born to Edward R. and Norine Fordyce Kimble. Mr. Kimble is
survived by a son, Edward, of Cleveland, OH; a sister, Mary Lou Pelley of
LaSalle, CO; two brothers, George, of Huntington, WV, and Donald, of
Moundsville, WV; step-brother, Dr. Vaun Newill of Oxford, PA, numerous neices
and nephews, as well as his beloved dog, Skittles. He was predeceased by
brothers Melvin and Wayne. A memorial service is
planned in the spring at Sand Hill Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to
the American Diabetes Association. The Tennant Funeral Home in Hundred, WV is in charge of
arrangements.
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