LAGRANGE and SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Phyllis Mae Kalnin, wife of the late Charles Henry Kalnin Jr., died Feb. 5, 2006, at a Riverside, Calif. healthcare facility. She was born Dec. 7, 1919, in LaGrange, the daughter of Claude I. and Theresa (Babkirk) Brown. Phyllis worked as a licensed vocational nurse in Loma Linda University Hospital throughout the late 1960’s to the early 1980’s and later as a sales assistant at the Costume Shop in San Bernardino, Calif. She enjoyed Civic Light Opera, playing cards, camping, golfing, baking, fund-raising for various charities, (such as the Heart Fund, the March of Dimes, Cystic Fibrosis, the Cancer Society, UNICEF, Habitat for Humanity, Disabled Veterans, Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Ronald MacDonald House), extensive traveling and vacationing at the summer house on Frenchman’s Bay in Sullivan. She was a member of First Congregationalist Church in San Bernardino, Calif., as well as the American Business Women’s Association of San Bernardino, Calif. and the Order of the Eastern Star. She was predeceased by her husband, Charles Henry Kalnin Jr. to whom she was married for 53 years. She is survived by her sister, Eunice (Brown) Cushing of Maine; a daughter, Mary (Kalnin) Redmond of Longmont, Colo.; two sons, Charles H. Kalnin III and Peter Kalnin of Riverside, Calif.; as well as four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and many dear friends in California and Maine. Services will be in Riverside, Calif.
PHYLLIS M. KALNIN
