Kienow Family History and Heritage

Arline Bertha Mills (I315)
Given Names: Arline Bertha
Surname: Mills
Married Name: Arline Bertha Kenow

Sex: Female Female
      

Birth 28 December 1925 -- St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, USA
Death 10 August 2023 -- Oakdale, Washington, Minnesota, USA

Personal Facts and Details
Birth 28 December 1925 Father22Mother21 St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, USA

Marriage 30 June 1946 (Age 20) Raymond Kenneth Kenow
Death 10 August 2023 (Age 97) Oakdale, Washington, Minnesota, USA
Address:
The Waters of Oakdale


Note: Arline “Spike” Kenow, age 97, formerly of Faribault, entered heaven on Thursday, August 10, 2023.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, August 16, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. at Woodbury Lutheran Church. Interment will be at Meadow Ridge Memorial Park, Faribault.

Visitation will be held for one and one half hour prior to service at church.

Arline was born December 28, 1925, in St. Paul, the only child of Armsted and Erna Mills. Arline’s father gave her the nickname “Spike” when she was young, and she has been Spike to family and friends ever since. Her parents owned a nightclub in Cannon City called “Mills Night Club” where she would wait on tables and enjoyed talking with the patrons.

She attended grade school in Cannon City and met her husband, Ray, at Faribault High School. They were married on June 30, 1946, after Ray was discharged from serving in the Pacific with the United States Navy. Ray and Spike moved to St. Paul in 1962 where she worked for Burlington Northern Railroad as a cost accounting clerk until she retired at the age of 60.

Spike loved to dance, from the age of 5 when she started tap dancing. She was a very social person and had a passion for listening to music, dancing, gardening, and hosting gatherings for family and friends. She thoroughly enjoyed spending time with her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

In their retirement, Arline and Ray bought acreage in Welch and were one of the first people to cultivate a vineyard in Minnesota. They became charter members of Northern Vineyards Winery in Stillwater.

She was a woman of strong faith in God and she and Ray were members of Woodbury Lutheran church for many years.

Known as G.G. by her grandkids, she missed being a great great grandmother by eight hours with the birth of Hudson to Hannah and Andrew Glowacki - the circle of life continues. Spike was loved by so many people and will be greatly missed.

She is survived by her children, Charles (Renee) Kenow, Anne (Dave) Tynan and Rebecca Kenow; grandchildren, Kelly (David) Hendricks, Nicole (Chad) Whiterabbit, Cortney (Brett) Heerwald, Danielle (Grant) Hoel and Sarah Tynan; great grandchildren, Nick, Hannah, Peyton, and Blair Hendricks, Lauren, Ryan and Colton Whiterabbit, Micah, Levi, Sophia Heerwald, Eden and Hope Hoel.

https://www.boldtfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Arline-Spike-Kenow?obId=28681842
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Family with Parents
Father
Male Armstead Jacob Mills ‎(I1074)‎
Birth 30 March 1903 Father31Mother32 -- Brittany, Oklahoma
Death 10 May 1987 (Age 84) -- Faribault, Rice, Minnesota, USA
Mother
Female Erna E. Schultz ‎(I1073)‎
Birth 26 August 1904
Death 16 May 1996 (Age 91)
Family with Raymond Kenneth Kenow ‎(F117)‎]
Father
Male Raymond Kenneth Kenow ‎(I138)‎
Birth 19 February 1926 Father48Mother43 -- Faribault, Rice, Minnesota, USA
Death 5 April 2008 (Age 82) -- Cottage Grove, Washington, Minnesota, USA
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