Omer “Skip” Kindig, 92, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024, at Brethren Retirement Community in Greenville, Ohio. He moved there from Rochester within the last year to live closer to his daughter and family.
Skip was born in Rochester on Oct. 22, 1932, to Oral B. “Hap” and Eva Severns Kindig. He graduated from Rochester High School with the class of 1951.
He enlisted into the U.S. Air Force in 1952 and served as staff sargeant until his honorable discharge in 1956. Skip was on a B-36 Peacemaker flight crew as the tail gunner. The B-36 was the largest mass-produced piston-engine aircraft ever built. After serving, he would come back home and attend ACME Technical Institute in South Bend, graduating in 1958. He was the chief engineer for Da-Light Screen Company for 33 years until his retirement.
Skip married a Rochester girl, Annette M. Sharpe, on July 6, 1958, and the couple would soon make Warsaw their home. The couple had one daughter, Karen Kindig Smith.
He was a member of the Masonic Lodge in Rochester and of the American Legion Post #49 in Warsaw and a member of the Tail Gunner’s Association for the Air Force.
Skip is dearly missed by his daughter, Karen and Tim Smith and family, of Greenville, Ohio; and his nieces, nephews, grandchildren and great-grandchildren from Indiana.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Annette, in 2022; and his parents.
A visitation will be held at McHatton-Sadler Funeral Chapel, Warsaw, on Friday, Dec. 13 from 10 to 11 a.m. A funeral service will follow the visitation at 11 a.m. Pastor Josh Walker will be officiating. Burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. Cemetery, 620 N. 3rd St., Rochester.
To sign the guestbook or send a condolence to the family, please visit www.mchattonsadlerfuneralchapels.com.