Clift Seybert Kinsell was calved successful Oakland, CA and moved to Santa Barbara astatine property three. With this move, commenced a agelong and fruitful beingness afloat of travel. His main emotion was for his household and work to others.
Sey loved “all things Santa Barbara”. He archetypal attended Roosevelt School, past La Cumbre Jr. High School, Santa Barbara High School and yet Stanford University. After Stanford helium began the signifier of medicine.
Sey graduated Stanford Medical School successful 1947 and trained archetypal astatine San Francisco Children’s Hospital, and aboriginal astatine Los Angeles Children’s Hospital. He practiced medicine for 37 years astatine the Santa Barbara Children’s Medical Clinic and was good known to each arsenic “Doctor Sey”. Dr. Kinsell had a peculiar spot successful his bosom for chronically sick and disabled children. He took attraction of each patients careless of their presumption successful life. His signifier filled galore play days and nights and helium would often marque location calls aft hours. He was president of the Alpha Resource Center for six years and received a beingness accomplishment grant for his service.
He enjoyed a lifelong rank successful the Episcopal Church, archetypal attending Trinity Episcopal Church wherever helium was a subordinate of the vestry and helium taught Sunday school. Later helium was a subordinate of All Saints by the Sea Episcopal Church wherever helium was progressive each Tuesday greeting astatine communion.
He was progressive successful the Santa Barbara assemblage serving connected the Police and Fire Commission for six years and connected the Santa Barbara County Parole Board for 3 years. He was president and a Paul Harris Fellowship recipient of the Santa Barbara Rotary Club which helium joined successful 1954. He besides enjoyed the Chamber of Commerce Governmental Review Committee gathering for galore years.
He had galore heavy interests implicit the years which included satellite travel, vertebrate watching, camping with household and friends, collecting Santa Barbara memorabilia and postcards, learning of the affluent past of Santa Barbara and California.
Retirement changed his accent from caring for children to caring for the elderly. He delivered Meals connected Wheels and was a long-time bedside unpaid for Hospice/VNA helping radical who stayed astatine location successful their past days.
All his life, Sey was enthralled by learning, friendships and sharing beingness with others. He would say, “Every beingness has value”. Sey recovered large pleasance successful helping others and helium liked astir everything but asparagus, drawstring beans and snakes. His commonplace books are afloat of favourite quotes, sayings and observations. His favourite punctuation was, “The clip to instrumentality a portion of barroom is erstwhile it is passed – it whitethorn ne'er beryllium passed your mode again”. He loved penning letters to his children respective times a period which person go treasures for each of them. Sey was besides partial to the customized of the French peasant giving the dying a sip of champagne to velocity them connected their way.
Sey is survived by his woman Tamara Kinsell; his children Suzanne (Kinsell) Padrick (Steve), Jeff Kinsell (Marie) and Kirk Kinsell (Carrie); his grandchildren Scott Padrick, Natalie (Padrick) Rodrigue and Ryan Padrick, Amy Kinsell and Pam (Kinsell) Phan, and Kyle Kinsell and Catelyn (Kinsell) Potter; and fourteen great-grandchildren.
Sey was preceded successful decease by erstwhile spouses Shirlee Kinsell, Lilabeth Kinsell and siblings Beverly (Kinsell) Danielson and Henry Kinsell.
A solemnisation of beingness volition beryllium held successful the Spring. In lieu of flowers, charitable contributions whitethorn beryllium made to:
Santa Barbara High School Scholarship Fund
P.O. Box 6121
Santa Barbara, CA 93160-6121
Or to your favourite charity.
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