Bruce was the second of six sons born to Charles Kindig and his wife, the
  former Ellen Beishline, in Berwick, Pa. The boys grew up on a farm in Columbia
  County where they attended school. AFter graduating from Bloomsburg State
  Normal School, 1917, Bruce taught for forty years. He served one year in the
  service of his country during World War I. He trained at Camp Meade, MD. and
  served in France with the 305th Signal Battalion of the 79th Division.
     He came to Medicine Lodge in 1925 and retired in 1958. In 1952 he was
  honored with a Master Teacher's Award from the Kansas Board of Education for
  his long service to Kansas youth. For thirteen years he was part time chemist
  for Kansas Power and Light Co., he taught Science, and was Principal of the
  high school nine years and Dean of Boys eight years.
     Amoung his many hobbies were meteorology, photography, woodworking, Amateur
  Radiow (WDHR), and genealogy. After his retirement, we traveled in many states
  visiting many relatives and friends. He compiled a genealogy of his family and
  by correspondence with my relatives, we located many cousins, among them one
  who had my Revolutionary Patriot's lineage to the Magna Charta in 1216 in
  England.
     Bruce passed away in 1969 and is buried in Highland Cemetery. He was a
  member of the Methodist Church, the Amateur Radio Relay League, Syracuse
  Chapter No. 88 RAM, Syracuse, Kansas. The American Legion Barber County Post
  69, American Chemical Society, Farm Bureau, National Retired Teacher's Assn.,
  and Kansas State Teacher's Assn.
     Bruce and I were married in the OES Chapel at the Masonic Home in Wichita,
  Kansas, by E. Clarkson Atwater, Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church. My
  "sisters and brothers" prepared a sanctuary below the beautiful stained glass
  window depicting the Signet of the Order. Members of Ivy Leaf Chapter #75,
  OES had charge of the reception. We have three children, Elizabeth, Miriam,
  and Neal, and ten grandchildren.
     I was thrid of six children born to Kansas Pioneers, David Reese Matney
  and wife, the former Mary Elizabeth Bowman of Wyandotte County, Kansas. My
  father died Aptil, 1906, just two days after the youngest child was born. 
  Since he was a Mason the five older children were whisked away to the Masonic
  Home where we received loving care and were encouraged to get an education.
     I attended kindergarten at the home, McCormick Grade School, graduated
  from Wichita High School in 1919, and from Pittsburg State College, in 1921.
  I taught school in Erie and Syracruse, Kansas, before marriage. Later I
  received a BS Degree from Northwestern, Alva, Oklahoma. In the meantime I
  taught in Isabel High School, Barber County Rural Schools, and Medicine Lodge
  Grade School.
     At the present time I enjoy membership in St. Mark's Episcopal Church,
  Lorraine Auxiliary, Kansas Geneological Society, National Retired Teacher's
  Assn., National Assn. of University Women, National Society Daughters of the
  American Revolution, and the Magna Charta Dames.
     We moved into what was known as the Brady Place in 1928 at 106 East Stolp
  Ave., having bought the house from Captain Brady's widow who moved to Chicago
  after many years of teaching piano to the young people of the community.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 260 
     Submitted by: Hyacinth M. Kindig