JIM CLINKENBEARD 1959 - 1986 AIRCRAFT MECHANIC, INSPECTION FOREMAN DEN You may already have this, Jim was an inspection foreman. -Don Cecil (7/19/09) Former Frontier Airlines employee Jim Clinkenbeard age 83, passed away Thursday July 16, 2009, due to health problems at his home in Bend, Oregon. He will be cremated. This information was given to me by Bill and Lee Gee. With all our sympathy and prayers, -Juanita Barajas, Secretary, Frontier Airlines Maintenance & Engineering Retirement Club (7/18/09) Posted at the FL Club Passing of Jim Clinkenbeard You may already have this, Jim was an Inspection foreman. -Don Cecil Former Frontier Airlines employee Jim Clinkenbeard age 83, passed away Thursday July 16, 2009, due to health problems at his home in Bend, Oregon. He will be cremated. This information was given to me by Bill and Lee Gee. With all our sympathy and prayers, Juanita Barajas, Secretary, Frontier Airlines Maintenance & Engineering Retirement Club -Jake Lamkins (7/19/09) Could not find anything at Bend or Jeff City newspaper or Intelius.com. Not on the 7/1/52 FL/IAM seniority list. J. Clinkenbeard, Inspector, on 7/1/67 Maintenance Personnel Roster. J. Clinkenbeard, Foreman of Inspection, per Jan1, 1970 FL Telephone Directory. J. Clinkenbeard shown with retained seniority of 7 yrs 10 mo 30 days on both the 11/1/74 and 11/1/76 lists. J. Clinkenbeard, DENQC, Inspection, no title per Nov 1977, Nov 1978, Dec 1979, Dec 1980, Jan 1982 and Jan 1983 FL Quick Reference Directories. Need more info such as dates of employment, obituary, photo, etc. -Jake Lamkins (7/19/09) "Clink" or somtimes "Colonel Clink" as he was affectionately known died here at his home July 14 or 15 in Bend, Oregon after a 3 month battle with cancer. I am awaiting the local posting of his obit and will send to you. A long time maint inspection foreman in Denver he retired here in Bend in 1987. A native Oregonian - St Helens, Or on the Columbia river Northeast of Portland. He spent his time here working for "Fuel Safe Mfg Corp" inspecting fuel tanks built for NASCAR and INDY cars. An incredible man of many talents, he could quell any dispute and diffuse any situation that arose. He is survived by his wife Doris and a son near Denver. -Jim Taylor (7/21/09) The obit posting for Clink will be done by his son in the Denver Post. As of today it has not been done (Wed's July 22) There will not be a posting in the Bend paper per Doris. -Jim Taylor (7/22/09) I was not aware of Clink passing, it was a sad day when I learned. Clink was a special person in which I have nothing but fond memories of. His eye was always on u even if it wasn't. I think all will understand who knew Clink. He and Cornstubble helped me cut my eye teeth in aviation and was one of many mentors I had at the old Frontier and one of the main reasons for where I am at in my career. The Ol Frontier numbers are dwindling but the memories never fade on what we all took for granted back in the good ol days. We all had a lot of fun. -Kevin Pape (7/22/09) OBITUARY James Clinkinbeard Oct. 1, 1926 - July 16, 2009 Age 82 Residence: Bend, Ore., died Thursday, July 16, at St. Charles Hospital in Bend, Ore. He was born Oct. 1, 1926, in St. Helens, Ore., to Eugene and Margaret (LeMay) Clinkinbeard. On Dec. 18, 1944, he married Nellie Louise Vanderford. She died in 1994. He served in the Navy during World War II. He loved traveling, elk hunting and horses. Survivors: A son, James Jerry Clinkinbeard and wife Arlene of Platteville; sisters Mary Blackburn of Washington, Sally Stuart of Beaverton, Ore., and Violet Lehner of Battle Ground, Wash.; five grandchildren; and a step-grandaughter. Preceded in death by his parents and two children, Marnell Coon and Richard Clinkinbeard. Cremation was in Bend, Ore. No Colorado services. -Greeley Tribune, July 21, 2009 He started to work for Frontier in Denver as a mechanic August 17, 1959. He was an Inspector in 1967, and in March 1968 a Foreman in the Quality Control Department up thru the August 1986 Frontier shutdown. "Clink" worked for Pacific Airlines in San Francisco prior to joining Frontier in 1959. In the preparations for Frontier starting B-727-100 service in 1966, Frontier sent many of the mechanics to San Francisco to a United Airlines B-727 Maintenance Training Class at United's facility on the airport. One weekend Clink took several of us over to Pacific's Hangar where he talked to many of his old buddies. He then took us up to the second floor where the Airlines' offices were located, and showed us the office door with a sign that read, (C.A. "Mac" Myhre, Vice President and General Manager. "Mac" Myhre was President of Frontier April-1953 to Jan-1959). -Ken Schultz (7/28/09)