Kenneth Allen Jinks Sr.

Decatur

Funeral for Kenneth Allen Jinks Sr., 70, of Decatur will be Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008, at 2 p.m. at Liberty United Meth-odist Church in Moulton with Dr. Carl M. Evans officiating and Parkway Funeral Home directing.
Burial will be in East Lawrence Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be tonight from 6 to 9 at the funeral home.
Mr. Jinks, who died Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008, in Birmingham, was born March 18, 1938, in Morgan County to Alvis Jinks and Christine Jones. He was a mechanical engineer at Decatur Iron and Steel from 1956 until 1972, when he and his family moved to Selma, where he was employed as senior vicepresident at DISCO Aluminum Products.
He and his wife later returned to Lawrence County, where he opened and ran his own business until retiring in 2000. After his retirement, he enjoyed working as an adjunct teacher in the Decatur City School System. He was a member of Liberty United Methodist Church in Moulton.
He was preceded in death by his parents, stepfather, Leonard P. Jones, stepmother, Ethel Jinks, and sister, Edie Jones.
Survivors include his wife, Peggye Wallace Jinks; two sons, Kenneth Jinks Jr. and wife, Sharon, and Mark Jinks and wife, Kim, both of Decatur; brothers, Col. James R. Jinks, Ret., of Tuscon and Donald Jones of Moulton; sisters, Barbara Lingle of Rogers, Ark., Joy Jones of Hillsboro, Marsha Vaughn of Fayetteville, Ark., and Kathy Graham of Courtland; and grandchildren, Andrew Rutherford, Justin Jinks, Haley Rutherford, Meagan Jinks and Taylor Rutherford.
Pallbearers will be Andrew Rutherford, Justin Jinks, Waymon Wallace, Jerius Wallace, Leonard Ingram and Jimmy Wallace.
Memorial donations may be made to Liberty United Methodist Church or American Diabetes Association.
This obituary was originally published in the Decatur Daily.