Paul Adam Lind, 79, a retired millwright and builder at Kendrick, Idaho, much of his life, died at his home there at 10:45, May 9. Death was attributed to the infirmities of age. He had been ill for about a year.
Lind was employed for many years as a millwright for the Kendrick Bean Growers Assn. and for George Brocke and Sons. He retired in 1966.
Paul joined the Church of the Brethren as a young man and was ordained as a minister in 1920. He remained active in church and Sunday School work all his life. He was affiliated with the Kendrick Community Methodist Church during his years in Kendrick.
Paul was born Nov. 13, 1895 at Astoria, the son of John and Ida (Henry) Lind. He moved with his parents to the Teakean, Ida. area when he was 12 and there completed his schooling.
During World War I he worked at a defense plant at Portland, Ore. and returned to Kendrick, Ia. In 1919 where he married Edith G. Raby. She survives at the family home.
Lind and his bride returned to the Teakean area, where he worked at lumber mills and as a builder until 1929. Since then he and his family have lived at Longview, Wash. and Grants Pass, Oregon. They returned to Kendrick in 1931 where they have made their permanent home.
In addition to his widow, Paul is survived by three sons, Leon of Moscow, Milton of Lewistown and Robert of Springfield, Ore.; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and one son, Oscar Wayne Lind who was killed in action Nov. 14, 1944 in France at the age of 22.
The body laid in state at Brower-Wann Chapel at Lewistown, Ida. from Friday until 7:00 p.m. Monday. Funeral services were held 10:00 a.m. Tuesday at the Little Chapel of Flowers with Rev. Dana Hussey, pastor of Kendrick United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in Lewis Clark Memorial Gardens at Lewistown, Ida.
Paul is also survived by three Aunts, Mrs. Martha Harlacher of Kalona, Iowa, Mrs. Mabel Harman of Industry, Ill., and Mrs. Clara Miller of Panora, Iowa.
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