Maxine Marie (Turk) KINDLEY

TURK, KINDLEY, PACATTE, INGRAM

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/18/2015 at 20:14:08

April 25, 1916 ---- November 25, 2004

FORT WORTH, TX -- Maxine Marie Turk Kindley, 88, a retired restaurant owner, died Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004, in Fort Worth. Memorial service: 4 p.m. Monday at Genesis United Methodist Church. Visitation: 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Laurel Land Funeral Home. Memorials: Contributions may be made to the Methodist Children's Home in Waco, Children's Ministries of First United Methodist Church of Colleyville or Genesis United Methodist Church of Fort Worth.

Mrs. Kindley was born April 25, 1916, in Clarion, Iowa, to a farming family. Maxine was the oldest daughter of seven children. Her family moved to East Texas when she was 19, and established Herm's Cafe, a popular restaurant and banquet hall on Highway 80 in Mineola. In 1948, she married Eldon Kindley of Graham. During their engagement, he was blinded in an explosion, and they married two months later. Over the next 27 years she helped him operate four businesses, the last being Eldon's Coffee Shop in the Tarrant County Criminal Courts Building. They were familiar faces to many employees of the district attorney and sheriff, from 1962, until their retirement in 1975. In 1992, Eldon's sight was restored after 44 years of blindness, making their retirement all the more joyous.

Survivors: Her loving husband of 56 years, Eldon Kindley of Fort Worth; daughter, Judy Pacatte of Fort Worth; son, Dr. Gary Kindley of Hurst; grandchildren, Jeffery Ingram and wife, Melissa, of Fort Worth, Kristen Arnold and husband, Alex, of Fort Worth, David Kindley and John Kindley, both of Granbury; great-grandchildren, Aubrey Ingram and J.T. Ingram, both of Fort Worth; and sister, Freida Turk of Lufkin.