1998
SENATE MEMORIAL 98-001
BY SENATORS Ament, Norton, Alexander, Arnold, Bishop,
Blickensderfer, Chlouber, Coffman, Congrove, Dennis, Feeley, Hernandez,
Hopper, Johnson, Lacy, Lamborn, Linkhart, Martinez, Matsunaka,
Mutzebaugh, Pascoe, Perlmutter, Phillips, Powers, Reeves, Rizzuto,
Rupert, Schroeder, Tanner, Tebedo, Thiebaut, Wattenberg, Weddig,
Wells, and Wham
WHEREAS, By the will of Divine Providence, our beloved
former member, the Honorable Kenneth I. Kinnie, departed this
life on August 14, 1997, at the age of 74; and
WHEREAS, Senator Kinnie was born in Julesburg, Colorado,
on April 28, 1923; and
WHEREAS, Senator Kinnie graduated from Sedgwick schools
in 1942; and
WHEREAS, Senator Kinnie attended the University of
Colorado in Boulder, where he studied engineering; and
WHEREAS, Senator Kinnie served in Pacific operations
with the U.S. Navy as an electrician=s
mate third class from 1944 to 1946; and
WHEREAS, Senator Kinnie served the counties of Cheyenne,
Kiowa, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington,
Yuma, Crowley, Elbert, and Lincoln for eight years as a member
of the Colorado Senate; and
WHEREAS, Senator Kinnie served on the Appropriations,
State Affairs, Transportation, and Agriculture, Natural Resources,
and Energy committees, the 1977 Fixed Utilities and School Finance
interim committees, and as Vice-Chairman of the 1977 Agriculture
and Wildlife and the 1978 Water and Coal Slurry interim committees;
and
WHEREAS, Senator Kinnie was a valued member of the Julesburg community where he was a charter member and president of the Julesburg Booster Club, chairman of the Sedgwick County Republican Central Committee for 16 years, and a member of the Julesburg Jaycees and the United Methodist Church of Julesburg; and
WHEREAS, Senator Kinnie also served for eight years
on the state ASCS Committee; and
WHEREAS, Senator Kinnie was a long-time farmer and
businessman in Julesburg where he founded the Hodges-Kinnie Grain
Company; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-first
General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
That, in the death of Kenneth I. Kinnie, the people
of the State of Colorado have lost an outstanding citizen and
public servant and that we, the members of the Senate of the state
of Colorado, hereby extend our deep and heartfelt sympathy to
the members of his family and pay tribute to a man who served
his state well and faithfully.
Be It Further Resolved, That
copies of this Memorial be sent to Senator Kinnie=s
wife Lucille; his three sons, K. Joe Kinnie of Julesburg, Colorado,
Craig Kinnie of Hillsboro, Oregon, and Ernest Kinnie of Thornton,
Colorado; his three sisters, Phyllis Brune, Doris Kraemer, and
Mary Zielger, all of Denver; and his two brothers, Leland Kinnie
of Denver and Lynn Kinnie of Estes Park.
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Tom Norton Patricia K. Dicks
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ASSISTANT SECRETARY
OF THE SENATE