Frederick E. Rev. Kinzie

Rev. Frederick E. Kinzie, age 95, of Oakleaf Village on Holland-Sylvania, passed away peacefully at Lake Park Rehabilitation Center on Sunday, February 8, 2009 after a month long respiratory illness. Born February 4, 1914 in Breman, IN, Rev. Kinzie was the youngest child of William and Minnie Kinzie. As pastor of First Apostolic Church, 5701 Sylvania for thirty years, from 1953-1983, he brought the church from a small group on Detroit Avenue to the large congregation that is now located on Sylvania Avenue. Rev. Kinzie was well known and loved in the United Pentecostal Church, International. He was a member of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Pentecostal organization. He also served a term of the UPCI Executive Board and was an enthusiastic supporter of the Sunday School arm of the church. He served as presbyter of Section Seven, the northwest section of the Ohio District, UPCI for twenty-five years. Rev. Kinzie attended school in LaPaz, Indiana and graduated from LaPaz High School in 1931. In 1935, he married his childhood sweetheart, Vera Berger and they enjoyed a rich and rewarding marriage until she passed away in 2006. They spent their first several years farming in the Marshall County area, and then after their conversions to the Pentecostal faith, he felt his call into the ministry. They formed the Kinzie Evangelistic Party with neighboring girls, Pat and Pam McQueen, early in the 1940s and traveled across the country in music and evangelist ministry for ten years. Their travels took them to all lower forty-eight states and they pioneered as recording artists in the Pentecostal denomination. In 1953, they left the evangelistic field to assume the pastorate of the First Apostolic Church. During his tenure here, Rev. Kinzie began the Platter Parson program on WSPD. After his retirement in 1983, he began his next career as an author. He learned how to use a computer at age seventy and wrote five books, all of which were published by the Pentecostal Publishing House, Hazelwood, MO. In addition to his ministerial activities, he was an avid fisherman. He took twenty-four trips to the Lac Seul region of Western Ontario, plus a number of trips to Lake Consecon, east of Toronto. He owned a lake home in Chelsea, MI where he spent countless hours fly fishing and trolling for bass. Rev. Kinzie was the loving father of one daughter, Cassandra, who participated in his care throughout his retirement years. Rev. Kinzie was preceded in death by his parents; brother; three sisters; and his beloved wife, Vera. He is survived by his daughter, Cassandra Mark Jordan; three grandchildren, Jonathan Ryan Megan, Jeremy Ross Melissa and Janelle Rene; and great-granddaughter, MaKinzie Jordan. Friends may visit the family on Tuesday from 2-8 PM and Wednesday from 10:00-11:00 AM at the First Apostolic Church 5701 Sylvania Ave. where services will be held Wednesday at 11:00 AM. Interment will follow at Toledo Memorial Park. Contributions in Rev. Kinzies memory may be made to UPCI General Mission Division 8855 Dunn Rd. Hazelwood, MO 63042 or First Apostolic Church.