Robert Toler Kimmick, 85, a Silver City resident, passed away peacefully at his home Friday, January 16, 2015.

Graveside service will be held Friday, January 23, 2015 at 11 o'clock in the morning at Ft. Bayard National Cemetery where he will be laid to rest with his loving wife.

He was born October 12, 1929 in Deming to Robert L. and Elizabeth (Bennett) Kimmick, the youngest of 5 children. He was raised on the family homestead on the lower Mimbres until the family moved to Silver City in the mid 1940's. He graduated from Western High School in 1947. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War where he was a part of a tank crew. After his discharge, he attended WNMU during the day and worked evenings as a laborer at Kennecott Copper Co. He married Lane Gale April 17, 1959. After graduating from WNMU he was hired as an accountant at Kennecott where he worked for 41 years. He enjoyed a simple, unhurried life. He liked to tend to his cattle and his small apple orchard, which he had an affection for from his time on the homestead. He will be remembered as a man of few words and a dry sense of humor. Most all he was a man who always kept his word, worked hard all his life and treated people fairly.

He is survived by his sons Dwaine (Pat), Brad (Shelley) and Galen (Deborah), eight grandchildren, Robert, Raelyn, Heather, Ryan, Chelsea, Cheyenne, Stephenie and Raymond, one great-granddaughter Vanissa and a very special person in his life Leann Robinson. She was the light when he was lost and showed him the path back.

He is preceded in death by his parents, his loving wife Lane, a brothers William and Edward, sisters; Mary Lynch and Betty Putnam, brother-in-law Larry Lynch and sister-in-law Freda Kimmick.