Enumclaw resident Alfred Rex Kinkade died Oct. 6, 2015.

He was born Feb. 11, 1942, in Seattle to Beulah Agnes (Murphy) and Robert Wilson Kinkade. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corp. He was a teamster for many years, worked as a truck driver and owned his own firewood business. He was a skilled woodworker who loved to make things for people. Most of all he loved his family, especially his children, tho whom he taught many things, including how to fish.

He is survived by wife Claire of Enumclaw; daughters Kathleen Twede and husband Kyle of North Bend, Wash., and Debra Soroe and husband Mark of Poulsbo, Wash.; sister Sandra Hill of Moses Lake, Wash.; and three grandchildren.