Jimmy J. Kinlaw

WHITE OAK - Retired U.S. Army Maj. Jimmy Johnson Kinlaw, 72, of 11295 N.C. 53 West, passed away from this earth into eternal rest on Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. Mr. Kinlaw served honorably and with distinction, both statewide and in the Vietnam War. He proudly served in the Air Force before retiring from the Army in 1972. He was preceded in death by his much loved son, Robert Cecil "Big Rob" Kinlaw; grandparents, Wade and Ruby Johnson; parents, Cecil and Mary Claire Kinlaw; grandparents, Charlie and Lillie Kinlaw; brothers, Thomas Cecil Kinlaw and Charles Wade Kinlaw. The family will receive friends today, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009, at Bladen-Gaskins Funeral Home & Cremations Services in Elizabethtown from 6 to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Bladen-Gaskins Funeral Home & Cremation Services with Stephen Meinhardt officiating. Burial will follow in Kinlaw family cemetery. He is survived by his devoted wife, Geneva Hester Kinlaw of the home; sons, Harold Johnson Kinlaw and wife Mary Ann of Orlando, Fla., and Charles William Ross II and wife Patricia of Fayetteville; daughters, Julie Claire Kinlaw Humphries of Metairie, La., and MaryKay Kinlaw Colantuono and husband Michael of Hope Mills. He is also survived by the joys of his life, his grandchildren, Anthony Harold Kinlaw of Manchester, Tenn., William Christopher Kinlaw of Italy, Amy Marie Pulcer-Burkhardt of Fort Campbell, Ky., Stephen Alexander Kinlaw of Cherry Point, Lora Nicole Kinlaw of Dublin, Jillian Brooke Kinlaw Rice and husband Travis of Dublin, Jessica Ross Bartley and husband Jeremy of Gray, Tenn., Charles William "Chad" Ross III of Fayetteville, and Blake "Cameron" Raynor of Metairie; a brother, William "Billy" Kinlaw of Dublin; and a stepmother, Geraldine Kinlaw of Little River, S.C.