The services celebrating the life of Mr. Arlie Kinser, 91, of Seiling, Oklahoma will be held Saturday January 28, 2017 in the Bethel Friends Church in Hugoton, Kansas with Rev. Blake Durham officiating. Complete care cremation is under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.
He was born on August 4, 1925 to William Mayfield and Blanch Cook Kinser in Stevens Co. Kansas where he was raised and educated. Arlie was the 10th out of 14 children raised by this union. In April 1946, he married Harriet Wilmarth and from this union daughters Linda and Rhonda were born. Harriet predeceased him in 1959. In July 1961 Arlie married Ruby Brown and she predeceased him in December 1981. He worked as a farm laborer and with Stevens Co. Weed Department and for Panhandle Eastern, retiring in1983. In 2006 he moved to Seiling, Oklahoma to be near family.
He loved gardening and farming and raised chickens, ducks, turkeys, peacocks, rabbits, pigeons, cattle, horses, donkeys, mules, llamas, sheep and goats. He learned to sew, cook, bake pies, made quilts and mastered the world's best baked beans.
He is survived by daughters Linda (Frank) Ledford and Rhonda (Ted) Case. He leaves Grand/Great/Great Great Grandchildren Cliff and Kristi James and Dalton, Tyler and Kaden, Cindy and Jeff Reiher and Ryan, Austin, Skylar and McKenzie, Kandi and Jonathan Stewart and Chelsye and Pablo and Cami, Tessa and Micaiah, K'Lee and J.T. and Matt and Tammy Roberts and Baleigh, Johnna, Samantha, Christian and Kelby and Veronica and Blake Durham and Averi, Aspen and Knight, Michelle and Evan Houser, Tamara and Dustin Ramsey Jacob, Josh and Max, Carisa and David Worthington and Davey and Gracey, Misty and Ryan Martin and Daniel, Rene, Mikayla, Chloe, Lilly and Zoe, Cougun and Donna Ledford and Addie, Tyler, and Ashley. Two siblings Loene and Trulin, sisters-in-law Edna, Zetta and Wilma. A long list of nieces and nephews and friends.
He was preceded in death by both parents and eleven siblings, Faye, Fern, Elrie, Grace, Floyd, Loyde, Leslie, Hope, LeRoy, Robert and Stella.
Memorial donations can be made to the PowerHouse Kids of the Elm Grove Community Church in Chester, Oklahoma with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds.
Condolences may be made online at WWW.Brown-Cummings.com
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