Donald Ramsay Kline
of Yellville, AR
June 17, 1933 - November 29, 2025
Donald Ramsay Kline died on November 29, 2025. He was born in South Saint Louis, Missouri on 17 June 1933, the eldest son of Cecil Ramsay Kline and Florence Kubaugh Kline.
He received his higher education at Princeton University where he graduated in 1955, magna cum laude, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi, and with a second lieutenant's commission in the U.S. Air Force. He was stationed at Marianna, Fl., Chanute Field at Rantoul, Ill., and Greenville Air Force Base, Greenville, Miss.
He met and married his wife, Evalyn Jeanette McClure, in 1959. They had two children, Donald Ross Kline, born in 1960 and Teresa Ramsay Kline, born in 1962.
He worked for Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., later Bridgestone/Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., for thirty-nine years, retiring in 1994. In 1967 the family moved to Bangkok Thailand for three years. The family moved, again, in 1970, to Buenos Aires Argentina. He returned to Plant 1 in Akron, OH to work in energy conservation, performing energy audits across the world during the energy crisis of the 1970s.
In 1985 he accepted another overseas assignment to Sao Paulo, Brazil, until 1988. Upon his return to the United States, he worked on the design and specifications for two potential new plants, retiring to Yellville, Arkansas in 1994.
He is predeceased by his wife and his younger brother, Leroy ''Bud'' Kline. He is survived by his son, Ross Kline, daughter-in-law Maureen, and grandson Chris, all of Irmo, South Carolina, and daughter, Teresa, of Yellville, Arkansas.
A Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, at 11am at the First Presbyterian Church of Yellville, followed by lunch. The interment of Donald and Evalyn will occur at a later date in West Point, Mississippi.
Arrangements in the Care of Roller-Burns Funeral Home in Yellville, Arkansas.
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Roller-Burns Funeral Home
725 North Panther Ave.
Yellville, AR 72687
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