Kahl, Leone
Leone Kahl former Taos, NM
resident died in Dallas, Texas June 23, 1968. She was the first director of the Stables Galley
of The Taos Art Association. Taos News July 11, 1968 8. Contributed by Alberto Vidaurre.
Kaiser, James Henry
James Henry Kaiser, 84, of
Taos passed away on January 12, 2009. He is survived by his wife, Shirley Kaiser, children,
Anna Kaiser, Lillian Robertson, Theresa Lyons, stepchildren, Alfred, John and Robert
Armijo, Carmen DeLeon, Tommy Lee Kelly, Tim Kelly, MaryAnn Culver, Maureen Kelly,
Karen Swetnam, Kevin Kelly, their spouses; as well as 31 grandchildren; and 21
great-grandchildren. Funeral Mass will be held on Friday, January 16, 2009 at 11 a.m. at San
Francisco de Asis Church. Arrangements by Rivera Family Mortuaries. ABQ Journal
January 14, 2009
Karavas, John A.
John A. Karavas age 76,
died Dec 8,1967. Drowned while fishing at Guayamas, Mexico.
Survivors: Daughter Mary
Dolas and husband Gus Dolas; Sisters Chrisanthy Milona and Maria Agrrion; Nephew Saki Karavas and
his mother Noula Karavas. Taos News Jan 4, 1968, A 5. Contributed by Alberto
Vidaurre.
Keith, Gladys Key
Gladys Key Keith passed
away on September 26, 2004 in Taos, NM at the age of 92. She worked for the Las Vegas Public
School System as a Physical Education teacher. After retiring from the school system,
she went to work teaching Native American students. Her time with the Native
American school system was short lived, as Gladys was involved in a near fatal auto
accident. Gladys continued working with children,
babysitting for friends
and relatives in her community. She was a lovely gifted
woman who dedicated her
life to children. Special Thanks to the Taos Living Center
for the fine care give to Gladys. Arrangements by Rivera-Hanlon Funeral
Home. ABQJournal October 15, 2004
Kennon, Glen Autry
El Crepusculo, Thurs., Jan
12, 1950 Glen Autry Kennon, 13, died at Holy Cross Hospital
Thursday, January 5. The
boy, son of Mrs. and Mrs. J.J. Kennon of Taos, had been afflicted by rheumatic fever for some
time. He was born in Taos and had lived there all of his life. Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon in the Baptist Church with the Reverend Wasson officiating. The boy
was the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Conrad, also of Taos.
Kim, Byung Sik
Byung Sik Kim, 82, of Taos
passed away on December 20, 2006. He is survived by his wife, Young H. Kim, children, Kwan
Sook Kim, Hyun Sook Kim, Young Nam Kim (Maria), Woo Nam Kim (Mi Young), grandchildren,
Salomon Kim, Alex Kim, Luis Yoon, Veronica Yoon, Phillipe Kim (Vanessa Vigil),
Gabriela Kim, Natalia Kim, Arthur Kim and great grandson, Noah Kim.
King, Jimmie
Jimmie King, 63, of Red
River passed away on January 20, 2007. He was raised in Ft.
Worth, Texas. He married
Danetta Blankenship in 1964 in Ft. Worth. Jimmie and his
wife, Danetta opened
Bandana Properties, the first property management company in
Red River in 1980. He
was proud to be a working cowboy until his health declined.
He won the World
Championship of Drag Racing at the 1962 NHRA Winter
Nationals in Scottsdale, AZ
and was inducted into the Hot Rod Hall of Fame. He is
survived by his wife, Danetta King, son, Keith King of Albuquerque, parents,
James and Mattie King and sister, Carolyn Carpenter (Clayton) of Clyde, TX,
mother in law, Billie Martin of Ft. Worth, TX, niece, Christi Carpenter of Abilene, TX and
many extended family members and friends. Funeral service was held on January 26, 2007
at Red River Community House. Interment followed at the Red River Cemetery.
Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home.
Kious, Harold E.
New Mexico's financial and
local government communities lost a dear friend with the passing of Harold E. Kious on March 6,
2008. He was 91 years old. He is survived by his wife Margaret. He is also survived by
his children, Dianne Turtletaub of Albuquerque; son Michael and his wife Patricia, also of
Albuquerque; grandchildren, Alisa Young and husband Jamie of Cedar Crest, and
great-granddaughter, Stella Blue Young; and Jacob Turtletaub and Ryan Kious, both of
Albuquerque. He was preceded in death by a cherished grandson, Alex Turtletaub.
He was born in Kingsburg, CA, to George V. and Esther Gwinn Kious. The family moved
to Fresno following the death of his father and the near-death of his mother from the
Spanish flu in 1919. Following WWII, Harold used the G.I. Bill to attend Fresno State
College and majored in accounting. He ran his own accounting business in Fresno until
told of a job opportunity in Albuquerque by a good friend, Lin Price, whom he had met
while both were prisoners of war in Germany. He was hired and brought his family to New
Mexico from Fresno on Memorial Day weekend 1955, whereupon he took the reins as the
city of Albuquerque's first finance director. He modernized the city's finance and
accounting systems, and was instrumental in the financing of the city's civic
auditorium, a uniquely designed building that was considered
a premier structure
throughout the southwest when it was completed in 1956. His
death came two days past
the day that marked 65 years after the B-17 he was
co-piloting was shot
down over Holland in WWII. He was returning to England after
a bombing run that became
famously known among pilots as "the Hamm Raid," of March 4,
1943. The website of the
91st Bomb Group refers to the mission as the "Hamm
Massacre," because most
of the groups had received a radio message to abort the
mission due to poor weather;
Harold's group never received the message and proceeded to
the primary target of
railroad yards near Hamm, Germany; it was one of the first
bombing missions ordered to
a target so deep within German airspace. When the weather
cleared, Harold's group discovered
that there were only 16 bombers present instead of the 64
that had set out on the
mission. They made easy targets for the more than 80 German
fighter planes that were
expecting the full contingent, and the formation was
attacked relentlessly for more than an hour. Four planes, including Harold's,
were lost, and the rest were heavily damaged and casualties were high. Harold's
shot-up aircraft, which had run out of ammunition after the long battle, had
almost reached the coast of Europe, and was just about to have clear passage back to
England when one of the last pursuing fighters made a direct hit on one of the engines
sending the plane spiraling toward earth. Harold was able to slide through a hole in the
bottom of the aircraft that had been caused by flak and parachuted into Holland's Waddenzee,
an inlet of the North Sea near the island of Texel. He was captured by German soldiers and
held as a POW until the end of the war at Stalag Luft III, the same POW camp
that was the basis for the movie "The Great Escape." In 1986 a new chapter opened in his
life when he received a call at work from Willem Bakker of Holland, who related to him
how they had been looking for him for many, many years. He was calling on behalf of the
very men who watched his B-17 crash into the Waddenzee on that fateful March day.
The Dutchmen were the captain and crew of a ferry boat that was crossing the
Waddenzee; they watched Harold parachute into the sea and ordered a lifeboat to his rescue,
defying the orders of a German soldier who was present. The icy-cold water had
already caused Harold to slip into unconsciousness, and he wasn't aware of the circumstances
of his rescue. When he regained consciousness he was in German custody and would not
find out about his Dutch rescuers until the call at his office 44 years later. He was
overwhelmed upon learning of all this, and in the summer of 1987 he visited them in Holland and
did so every summer until just three years ago. He even took Dutch lessons starting at
age 71 and became quite conversant, much to the pleasure of his new friends. He also
arranged for them to visit the USA, and they were greeted in Washington, D.C. by Senator
Domenici; they later visited New Mexico. Harold helped set up a community scholarship
fund in Texel, Holland. Upon the opening of the New Mexico Veteran's Memorial in
southeast Albuquerque, Harold had plaques made in honor of his B-17 crew as well as for
his Dutch rescuers; they were among the first plaques fastened to a wall of honor at
the Memorial. While working for the city of Albuquerque, Harold became familiar
with the procedures related to issuing municipal bonds, and fell in love with the
business. When he left his position as finance director he joined a Kansas City-based investment
banking firm with an office in Albuquerque as a municipal finance specialist. He later
worked for Goodbody Co., then the nation's third-largest brokerage firm, before
deciding to form his own business, Kious and Co. in 1971. He devoted all his energy to
helping his many municipal finance clients in every corner of New Mexico, achieving many
firsts along the way. His guidance for more than twenty-three years to the Gila
Regional Medical Center in Grant County brought that institution from junk-bond status in
the early 1980s to an A rating from Standard Poor's, the first such S rating ever granted
to a hospital with under 100 beds. He was also working as financial consultant to
Albuquerque when the city received the first A rating for an airport revenue bond. In 1975 he
completed a complicated refinancing for the city of Albuquerque for more than $45,000,000
of general obligation bonds, the largest bond issue in state history up to that
time. He also served as financial advisor to Santa Fe Public Schools for more than 30 years.
His early knowledge of a complicated financing technique called advance refunding
resulted in his being well known by bond dealers around the country. He loved golf and
had a beautiful, smooth swing. He could have easily been a scratch golfer had he sought
that as a personal goal; at age 86 he bought a new set of clubs and played up to the time
that chemotherapy and radiation treatments at age 89 finally took their toll on his
incredible physical stamina. He also enjoyed skiing at Taos,
and did so up until the age
of about 78. But Harold never liked setting goals for
athletic achievements;
his first love and passion was the public finance business
and the relationships he
created with public officials all around New Mexico. He
established a scholarship,
sponsored by the N.M. Municipal League, to assist aspiring
public administration
students around New Mexico. Nothing pleased him more than to
visit a city or county
and talk with someone who had benefited from the
scholarship. He retired from the Air Force Reserve as a Lt. Colonel. He was
very amused a few years ago, when he found out via the internet that he still
appears on a list of Air Force pilots involved in a mishap. "Hmm," he said, smiling,
"Under the circumstances mishaps tended to occur." He found fulfillment in his work and
loved helping his clients in achieving their goals; they, in
turn, were grateful for his
many years of helping them learn the ins and outs of local government finances. He worked
tirelessly, usually seven days a week. But like so many of the Greatest Generation, he would
never allow any talk of his being a hero, or of having done anything out of the ordinary
while defending his country. He credits his sister, the late Raymah Henderson, who was only 15
when she had to quit high school in order to take care of the family, with being
the real hero. It was she who had to get a job, become mother, father, brother, and sister to
Harold, who was only two years old, and his brother, Carl, who was just an infant. "Who
knows what would have happened to us if she hadn't been there," he said recently, while
thinking back on his early years. He also felt the real heroes were the Dutchmen who saved him
from drowning. Mostly though, he always felt the real heroes were those seven
young, wonderful guys, his comrades-in-arms, who weren't able to get out of that B17 on
that cold March day in 1943. It surely must be that he quietly kept their memory in this
heart each and every day, and lived in a way that would forever honor them. A Memorial
Service will be held Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 3:00 P.M. at Daniels Family Funeral
Services, 1100 Coal Avenue SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106, (505) 842-8800. Memorial
contributions may be made to Presbyterian Hospital of Albuquerque. ABQ Journal March
16, 2008
Kittredge, William A.
William A. Kittredge, 92,
of Arroyo Hondo passed away on December 6, 2006. He is preceded in death by his parents,
Julian and Lucia Kittredge, brothers and sisters, Lillian Montoya, Alice Rochine, Julian and Joe
Kittredge and son in law, Eduardo Martinelli. He is survived by his wife, Cornelia
Kittredge, children, Mary Ann L. Hall-Peche (Dale) of Santa
Fe, Marlene B. Martinelli
of El Granada, CA, Deacon Michael Kittredge of Arroyo Hondo
and Joan B. Chinn (Brian)
of San Francisco, CA. He is also survived by nine grandchildren, seven great
grandchildren and brother, Tom Kittredge. Rosary was recited
on December 12, 2006.
Funeral mass was held on December 13, 2006. Both services were held at Our Lady of Sorrows
Catholic Church in Arroyo Hondo. Interment was held at Rael Cemetery in Arroyo Hondo.
Klebanoff, M. Robert
M. Robert (Bob) Klebanoff,
MD, passed away peacefully and quickly on May 24, 2005. He was preceded in death by his
daughter, Donna Jo Klebanoff in 1990 and his wife, Elizabeth (Betty) Kasarda Klebanoff in
2003. He is survived by his daughter, Nina A. Klebanoff, Ph.D., and Mellis Schmidt,
PhD of Taos Country and Santa Fe, NM, son David M. Klebanoff, M.D. in Mesa, AZ, John
L. Klebanoff in New York City, NY, and granddaughters Amanda C. Klebanoff and
Lindsay D. Klebanoff of Mesa, AZ. Graveside Services will be held at 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, June 1, 2005 at Fairview Memorial Park. Strong-Thorne Mortuary 1100 Coal
Avenue, SE 842-8800 ABQ Journal May 30, 2005
Kohler, Dolores
March 02, 2001, The Santa
Fe New Mexican, page B-2 DOLORES KOHLER, Age 45, of Santa Fe died peacefully at her
beloved country homestead last Friday evening. A native of Switzerland and 23 year
resident of New Mexico, she had resided in both Taos and Santa Fe. Artist, silversmith,
homemaker, nurturer, and lover of life, Dolores is survived by her parents, Louise and
Alban Kohler, of Basel, Switzerland; and siblings: Louise, Silvia Bianca, Sonja, Rolf,
Claudia, Sandra Angela, Manuela, and their husbands, wives, and children. Dolores will also
be dearly missed by her many friends and loving pets. Santa Fe Funeral Options 417 E.
Rodeo Rd. 989-7032
Kohler-Rausch, Zora
Zora Kohler-Rausch, 81, of
Red River passed away on November 18, 2006. She owned K-R Business Services in Red River.
She is survived by her son, Mario Kohler-Rausch (Diane), grandsons, Paul and Michael.
Memorial service will be held at a later date.
Kowclczyk, Kenny J.
Kenny J. Kowclczyk, 32,
passed away on September 9, 2005. He is survived by his mother, Bunni Toohey, father, Rudy
Kowalczyk, sister, Bethlehem Toohey, brothers Ethan Allen Hitchcock and grandmother
Dorothy Krause. A celebration of his life was held on September 17, 2005 at the Western
Sky Cafe in Taos. Please send memorial contributions to the Four Corners
Animal League, P.O. Box 1163, Taos, NM 87571.
Krone, James Lambert
James Lambert Krone March
13, 1936 - May 23, 2007 Jim passed away in his cabin at Taos East on Wednesday, May 23, 2007.
He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Karen Pond Krone; three sons: Jim B. of Los
Alamos, NM; John of Denver, CO; and Mark of Sherman Oaks, CA; three step-children:
Kersti of Seattle, WA; Briget of Cedar City, UT; and Jono of Albuquerque, NM; five
grandchildren: Kristina, Kevin, Mark, Michael, and Stella; two step-grandchildren:
Elizabeth and Lily; and his brother, Jack of Streetman, TX.
Born March 13, 1936 in
South Bend, IN, Jim grew up in Springfield, MO. Jim attended
Notre Dame on scholarship
and earned a BS in Electrical Engineering. After graduating
in 1958, Jim came to New
Mexico to work for Sandia National Laboratories. While
working for Sandia, Jim
earned an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University
of New Mexico. Jim fell
in love with the mountains of New Mexico and made northern
New Mexico his home. Jim
worked at Sandia National Laboratories for 38 years. His
work supported US treaty
monitoring and nonproliferation efforts. Jim contributed to
these efforts as an electrical
and computer engineer, designing hardware and software for
satellites. A great deal
of his work is still in use today. He was known for his
incredible hard work, trouble shooting abilities and sheer brilliance. In
1985, he achieved one of Sandia's highest titles by being named a Distinguished Member
of the Technical Staff. An avid skier and ski-team "Dad," Jim spent much of his
leisure time skiing, traveling with his sons to ski competitions, and in later years
volunteering during the holidays at Taos Ski Valley as an ambassador and parking lot attendant
-- positions he enjoyed because of the people he worked with and met. Jim was at his
best at his cabin that he built from a kit in the 1970s with help from his family and friends.
He enjoyed reading, hiking, following the adventures of his children and grandchildren, and
experiencing the passing of seasons at the cabin. In lieu of flowers, please send
contributions to Taos Community Foundation at PO Box 1925, Taos, NM 87571. The family is planning
a memorial celebration of Jim's life in early August at Taos Ski Valley.
Arrangements by Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home.
ABQJournal June 08, 2007
Kunesh, John George
John George Kunesh, age 67
and Denise Hancock Kunesh, age 63 died on Saturday July 29, 2006 due to injuries
sustained in an automobile accident. John and Denise had been happily married for 20 years and
during their marriage they enjoyed many adventures including trips to Hawaii,
Florida, Europe, the Far East and anywhere that the wind took them. On one of these
vacations, they traveled to Red River, NM and fell in love with the town and the community. They
returned to Red River each year on vacation and then eight years later, they built
their dream home in 2002 and became permanent residents of the Community. In Red
River Denise and John enjoyed hiking, snow shoeing, and cross country skiing and through
these activities made several good friends who became a part of their family. They
had a strong love for all animals and owned several dogs throughout their marriage. They
also had a tendency to take in stray cats, and, at one point their home was the home for
all homeless cats as Denise had set up heat lamps on timers and beds and fed all that
came by for feeding. They loved each and every one of their animals with all of their
hearts and treated them like the valued children they were.
John and Denise were also
active in community activities and were known to spend Thanksgiving morning working in soup
kitchens for the needy. John was planning on teaching math at the University this
Fall and was working as an independent contractor on projects for the Department of Energy.
Denise was employed as a director of nurse certification and traveled throughout
New Mexico administering certification tests and managing nursing programs. They
enjoyed hiking with their dog Diego and were known to bring him all over town and on many of
their journeys. They also loved traveling back East to visit with their family and
grandchildren and made the trip two to three times each
year. Denise never
missed a baby or bridal shower and really made a strong
effort to not let the distance
interfere with family relations. Prior to living in New
Mexico John and Denise lived in New Jersey where they met and fell in love
and then were relocated to Burbank, California. While in Burbank they took up
mountain biking and cycled nearly every weekend. Eventually John's job brought
them to Stillwater, Oklahoma where Denise continued her work in home health care
and earned her PH.D. They made several life long friends and joined a cycling club
and participated in regular weekend rides and Oklahoma FreeWheel, an annual
week-long cross-state bicycle ride. Denise is survived by her two daughters, sons-in-law and
grand children: Diane, Tom and Thomas Oborne of Hamilton, NJ; Linda, John and Julia
Ahrens of Clarksburg, MD and her sisters Beth Jablonski of Manahawkin, NJ, Eileen
Brown of Surf City, NJ and Sister-In-Law Colleen Hancock of Hamilton, NJ as well as
many aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews. John is survived by his three children and a
son-in-law and daughter-in-law and 4 grandchildren: Susan, Christopher Sean, Megan Burke
of Phoenix, Arizona; Jan Kunesh of Los Angeles, California; and John, Lisa, Jacqueline
and Katy Kunesh of Manhattan Beach, California. John and Denise touched the lives of
many people and have many friends across the Country. A service was held at
Rivera-Hanlon Funeral Home, on August 05, 2006. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to
the ASPCA or the Red River Volunteer Fire Department, P.O. Box 1020, Red River,
NM 87558
