Funeral services will be held at 2PM tomorrow for Katherine Kinley, 85, member of a pioneer Santa Rosa family, who died Wednesday at a Santa Rosa rest home after a long illness. Miss Kinley was born in Zering, Iowa. As a child she settled in the county with her family receiving her schooling in Cloverdale. She graduated from Santa Rosa High School. She was the daughter of the late Barnabas and Mary Caroline Kinley, early Santa Rosa settlers. One of her grandmothers, Nancy Miller, was a cousin of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln. Her father was emplyed by Luther Burbank woking in the experimental gardens. He later pioneered as an orchardist and agriculturist. He operated Rose Mound Nursery. Miss Kinley operated her own ranch in Vine Hill until she retired in 1957. She was a charter member of the First Congregational Church of Santa Rosa. She is survived by her brothers Dr. Frederick Kinley, Healdsburg, and Newton Kinley, Sebastopol, Fielden and Basil Kinley of Richmond and Oakland; and her foster sister Ethel P. Weyhe, Sebastopol. Surviving nieces and nephrews include, Barnabas Kinley, Oakland, Lester Kinley, Castro Valley, David Kinley, El Cerrito, Rowena Gregory, Stockton, Mary Hanna, Berkley, and Evelyn Kinley, Santa Rosa. Services will be held at the First Congregational Church. The Rev. Keith Widley will officate. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Lawn Cemetery. Welti Chapel of the Roses has charge. Source: Santa Rosa Newspaper, June 1962.
Funeral services will be held at 2PM tomorrow for Katherine Kinley, 85, member of a pioneer Santa Rosa family, who died Wednesday at a Santa Rosa rest home after a long illness. Miss Kinley was born in Zering, Iowa. As a child she settled in the county with her family receiving her schooling in Cloverdale. She graduated from Santa Rosa High School. She was the daughter of the late Barnabas and Mary Caroline Kinley, early Santa Rosa settlers. One of her grandmothers, Nancy Miller, was a cousin of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln. Her father was emplyed by Luther Burbank woking in the experimental gardens. He later pioneered as an orchardist and agriculturist. He operated Rose Mound Nursery. Miss Kinley operated her own ranch in Vine Hill until she retired in 1957. She was a charter member of the First Congregational Church of Santa Rosa. She is survived by her brothers Dr. Frederick Kinley, Healdsburg, and Newton Kinley, Sebastopol, Fielden and Basil Kinley of Richmond and Oakland; and her foster sister Ethel P. Weyhe, Sebastopol. Surviving nieces and nephrews include, Barnabas Kinley, Oakland, Lester Kinley, Castro Valley, David Kinley, El Cerrito, Rowena Gregory, Stockton, Mary Hanna, Berkley, and Evelyn Kinley, Santa Rosa. Services will be held at the First Congregational Church. The Rev. Keith Widley will officate. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Lawn Cemetery. Welti Chapel of the Roses has charge. Source: Santa Rosa Newspaper, June 1962.
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