Day 6 - Things About my Dad

Ok so I am a day behind right now but my pc is really unstable, it was acting weird and I thought it was going to crash (always paranoid about that having had it happen once) so I was afraid to get on it until I could go get a flash drive to at least save all my digital pictures too before anything happened. Lost all the pics of Jace's 1st year when it crashed before.

So, anyway Day 6's list was going to be in honor of my dad who would have been 75 on the 6th of March.

1). Name - Forest Wynne Kinnison

2). Born - March 6, 1933

3). Birthplace - Princeton, MO (also happens to be the birthplace of Calamity Jane)

4). Died - August 10, 1987 at the age of 54 after a 2 year battle with cancer

5). Parents - Grace Venita Gibson Kinnison and Forrest Avon Kinnison

6). Siblings - Sisters, Vesta and Veda; brother, Lyle

7). Was the light of their lives as evidenced by the many, many, many stories told about him on every trip we made to Missouri

8). Childhood/young adult nickname - Spud

9). Adult nickname - Blinkie (obviously not after one of the ghosts from Pac Man. I never really knew why 'cept I did observe that sometimes when he blinked it was repetively and he also made this gulping sound so maybe that was why.)

10). Was a great singer and songwriter. We recently found out that he sold some songs, giving up the writing rights, to either Hank Snow or Cal Smith (can't remember which) to pay for his oldest son to go to college.

11). Children - (2) boys and (1) girl in each of his two marriages. Danny, Mike, Sherry (from 1st marriage), Roger, Lyle and Lori (me) (from 2nd marriage).

12). Was a HUGE practical joker. Was known to put camping buddy's vehicle and camper up for sale while they were sleeping or put all their camper belongings out for a yard sale while they were at church.

13). Hated Kenny Rogers.

14). Occupation - truck driver and construction worker.

15). Went by his middle name, Wynne, which was passed down to two of his sons and three of this grandson - all first borns. Danny Wynne, Roger Wynne, Justin Wynne, Colten Wynne and Brendon Wynne. We are hoping the grandsons keep the tradition going.

16). Cherished and missed husband and father.