Kenneth W. Kunkle Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Funeral services for Mr. Kenneth Wayne Kunkle, 67, of Vidalia will be 2pm Thursday, February 21, 2013 at Vidalia First Baptist Church with the Revs. Bill McCullin and Dusty Carson officiating. Interment will follow at Legions Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Comer Funeral Home, Ferriday. Mr. Kunkle was born on February 18, 1945 in Angola, IN to the union of Donald C. & Laurene Griffith Kunkle and passed from this life on February 17, 2013 at Natchez Community Hospital in Natchez. He attended Hamilton High School in Hamilton, IN and was a graduate of Tri-State University in Angola, IN with a degree in business administration and a minor in accounting in 1968. He worrked for U.S.S. Agri-Chemical in Central Indiana for 8 years. In 1976, he moved to Louisiana to farm and in 1981 Kunkle Seed Co. was built. In 1995, Mr. Kunkle sold his partnership of Kunkle Seed Co. and Kunkle Farms. He then started a commercial agriculture spraying business named K&M Spray Service, Inc. in 1996. He was a member of Vidalia First Baptist Church since 1992, and worked in the children's sunday school department since 1995. He is preceded in death by his father, Donald C. Kunkle and 1 brother, David L. Kunkle. Survivors include his wife of 23 years, Melissa; 7 children, Kendra Kunkle Slover & husband Colt, Kendrick Wayne Kunkle, Kenzie Melissa Kunkle, Makayla Maryrylen, Madison Elizabeth, all of Vidalia, Lauri Kunkle of Chandler, AZ, and Jennifer Kunkle Diagle & husband Jodi of Gonzales, La; mother, Laurene Kunkle; 2 sisters, Judy Manahan and Beverly Knox, both of Angola, IN; 3 grandchildren and a host of extended family and friends. Pallbearers will be Kendrick Kunkle, Colt Slover, Art Verdel, Johnny Martin, Lonnie Welch, Terry Mize, and Mike Stockstill. Honorary pallbearers will be Caleb Corley, Bill Roberts, and Landon Seyfarth. Visitation will be Thursday from 12 noon until time of service at Vidalia Baptist Church in Vidalia. Online guestbook at comerfh.com

Kenneth W. Kunkle

February 18, 1945 - February 21, 2013

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