WALTER E. SINKBEIL

Walter E. Sinkbeil was born on February 5, 1912 in Zeeland, North Dakota, to Adolf and Pauline Sinkbeil, the eldest of 12 children. Walt passed away peacefully at age 99 at the Booker Rest Home in Dayton, Wash., on Sunday, November 27. He graduated from Eureka, South Dakota High School in 1930. In his early years he worked for the lumber yard in Zeeland, which helped foster his lifelong love of woodworking. He started coming, along with his brothers and friends, out West to work seasonally in the pea harvest

Walter and Ella Kilber were married on September 2, 1934 in Ada, Minnesota. They had t...