W. S. "Billy" Kinard, Jr. Services for W.S. "Billy" Kinard, Jr., will be held Friday, February 3, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. at Robert Barham Family Funeral Home Chapel, with Dr. Reid Whittington officiating. Burial will be in Prospect Presbyterian Church Cemetery with Robert Barham Family Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Mr. Kinard, 83, of Meridian died Thursday, February 1, 2012 at his residence. He was retired after twenty six years of civil service from the Meridian Naval Air Station. He was a Mason and a Hamasa Shriner. Mr. Kinard was an avid horseman and he also volunteered with the Jimmie Rogers Festival for over twenty years. He was a member of Prospect Presbyterian Church. Survivors include his wife Mary Alice Kinard of Meridian, his sons Richard Kinard and wife Darlene of Rosehill, Bruce Kinard of Meridian; daughter Cathy Kinard Miles of Meridian; son Greg Kinard and wife Connie of Meridian; daughter Kathy DeFranco of Wisconsin; stepdaughter Andrea Kathryn Downing of Meridian; grandchildren Jennifer Kinard, Billy Mack Kinard and wife Mollie, Fallon Kinard, and Justin Myers, Justin Kinard, and Holly, Jonathan Miles and fiancé Celeste, Lora DeFranco; ten great-grandchildren; brothers Durwood Kinard and Buddy Kinard and wife Kathleen; sisters-in-law Lilybel Bounds, Thelma Gunn Thompson, Carolyn Shelton; brothers-in-law Jimmy Gunn and William "Bill" Gunn and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his first wife Beatrice Gunn Kinard; parents Bessie and Willie Kinard and grandchild Natasha Dee Graves. In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials be made to the Shriner's Hospital for Children, c/o Hamasa Shrine, Dale Drive, Marion, MS 39342. Family and friends may sign the online guest book at www.robertbarhamffh.com Visitation will be held Thursday from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home and one Friday 12:00 p.m. until 1:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
