Mr. Warren Harding Kincaid

WARREN H. KINCAID SR, 96 Warren Harding Kincaid Sr., 96, passed away Friday, July 21, 2017 at his home in St. Louis, Missouri surrounded by his family. He was born July 18, 1921 to William E. and Maude Kincaid in Litchfield, Illinois, one of three children. He graduated from Soldan High School in St. Louis, Missouri in 1940. He met his beautiful bride, Constance Kretzer, on a blind date in high school in St. Louis, Missouri and they were married in Bainbridge, Maryland on November 20, 1943, prior to his shipping out for the war. As a youngster, Kincaid loved to fly and earned a pilot’s license before he obtained a driver’s license. He attended Civilian Pilot Training in Salem, Illinois; Pre-Flight School at the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, California; and Flight School at Norman, Oklahoma. After attending Jefferson College and Washington University, he served in the U.S. Navy in WWII from January 1943 through January 1946 with active service in the Asiatic Pacific Arena and the Philippine Liberation. In 1939 Kincaid began an extensive career in a business supply enterprise. He worked for his father at the family owned business, Scharr’s Stationers located in the mid-town area of St. Louis, later known as Business Supply Centers. With an interruption for his military service, he operated the business with his brother until 1990. He was an avid outdoorsman and conservationist, with a strong lean towards hummingbirds and pollinators of all types. He led many excursions to family farms and the family cabin located on Courtois Creek in the Missouri Ozarks to study nature and passed along that passion to the rest of the family during gatherings. Kincaid is survived by his children; Pamela (James) Hoeller of Berryman, Missouri; William (Marilyn) Kincaid of Washington D.C.; Laurie (Theodore) Hellmuth of St. Louis, Missouri; Susie Williams of Fairfax, Missouri; Warren (Michelle) Kincaid Jr. of St. Louis, Missouri; 11 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Kincaid was preceded in death by his parents; his wife Constance; his son Charles; brother, William Kincaid and sister Rosalie Roehlk Decker. Funeral services will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Missouri Botanical Garden at http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/donate or to the St. Louis Zoo at https://www.stlzoo.org/give/. Those wishing to sign the guest book may do so online at http://www.valhallafunerals.net/obituaries/

Mr. Warren Harding Kincaid

July 18, 1921 - July 21, 2017