Submitted by: Dan Rich

Dorothy V. Kinner

Aug. 15, 1925 - March 26, 1995

South Bend Tribune 3/28/1995

MISHAWAKA - Services for Dorothy V. Kinner, 69, of 100 Center High-Rise, formerly of 1602 Burnham Drive, who died Sunday in her home, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Guisinger Colonial Chapel Funeral Home. Burial will be in Southlawn Cemetery, South Bend. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Diabetes Association.

Mrs. Kinner was employed by the Master Belt Co. for 20 years as a machinist. She was born Aug. 15, 1925, in South Bend.

On Sept. 1, 1943, in South Bend, as Dorothy V. Hess, she married Carol L. Kinner. He died Jan. 27, 1959. Surviving are a daughter, Patricia Houser of North Liberty; two sons, John A. of Granger and Lon D. of Mishawaka; eight grandchildren; one great-grandson; her stepmother, Maxine Hess of Kalamazoo; a half-sister, Gayle Hess of Kalamazoo; and two half-brothers, Glen N. Hess of Kalamazoo, and Jim Hess of Angleton, Texas.