On Thursday, March 25, 2010, Loren Cline passed on to be with the Lord.
Loren was a week short of his eighty-third birthday. He was born in Little River, Kansas in 1927 and he died here in Newton, Kansas.
I met Loren when I moved to Newton in 2002, but we made an immediate connection on two very strong points. He was born and raised on a farm and still loved the land. He loved horses, too, especially the big draft horses. What connections weren’t made by our common farming background, our mutual love of horses certainly made up for.
But Loren was like a Dad to me, too. He came to some of the horse shows Neal and I attended as art exhibitors. He was always on the look out for horse pictures in the many magazines and calendars he received and he passed many of them on to me. He was careful to remind us every year to attend the Missouri State Fair because they had the best draft horse and mule classes in this part of the country. He encouraged us in our interest with the Mustang training program at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility in Hutchinson, Kansas and was always interested in whatever new painting I was working on.
Loren’s presence made losing my own Dad in 2007 a little bit easier.
Now he’s gone on ahead, too.
My condolences to his many family members and friends.
On Thursday, March 25, 2010, Loren Cline passed on to be with the Lord.