Property history:
Kinker's Jewelry

Kinker's Jewelry
Downtown Minford

Owner:  Lowell Edward Kinker
Year started:  1958
Year ended:  1970

The Portsmouth Times, 1958
The only certified watchmaker in Scioto County

The Portsmouth Times, September 17, 1970 - Lowell Kinker's Jewelry
Minford is going out of business.  Please pick up watches by the 26th of September.  All remaining jewelry drastically reduced. 

Class of 1956

Lowell Edward Kinker

Lowell Edward Kinker, 59, of Kinker Road, Minford, died Monday, December 29, 1997 at his residence.

He was born April 15, 1938, in Minford , the son of the late Alva "Todd" R. and Lorene Cole Kinker.

He was self-employed, owned and operated Goldfinger Watch and Jewelry Repair in Portsmouth from 1985 to present, had worked for Carr's Jewlers and Roberts Jewelers in Portsmouth, and operated Kinker's Jewelry in Minford from 1958 - 1970.

He was a member of Harrison Free Will Baptist Church near Minford.

He is survived by one son and daughter in-law: Lisa and Andy Bennett of Columbus: one granddaughter: Leeanna Jean Kinker of Minford; one brother Forrest Kinker of Schererville, IN, and his former wife Carol Kinker of Minford.

He was also preceded in death by one daughter: Karon Kinker.

Services will be held Friday, January 2, 1998 at 8 p.m. at the Erwin-Dodson-Allen Funeral Home with Pastor Ralph Frazie officiating. Burial in Kinker Family Cemetery on Kinker Road.