Obituary of Phillip Kinyon Shields

Phillip Kinyon Shields, "Kin," 75, died after a courageous battle with squamous cell cancer on December 27, 2015. He was born in Durango, Colorado to Mary and Paul Shields, and while growing up with a dad in construction, lived in WA, UT, MN, AZ and NV, where as a 5th grader in Beatty, his class was taken to the Atomic Testing Site to watch an A-Bomb explosion. He graduated from Horace Mann H.S. in Biwabik, MN, from Mesa College in Grand Junction, CO, and earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering at NMSU in Las Cruces. He served in the National Guard and went through training at Ft. Ord, CA. Kin had a pioneering spirit, brilliant mind, artistic talent, and was able to fix or create just about anything. He held a patent on a wave energy device, and built a rammed earth home in Tubac (with family slave labor) that he designed. He had an insatiable love of the Bible, was a born again Christian and attended Calvary Chapel. After college, Kin moved his family to engineering jobs in NM, CO, VA, WY, TX and to both shores of Saudi Arabia. The family lived in Saudi for 12 yrs (Jeddah, Tabuk, Yanbu, Abqaiq), seven of them with Aramco, the rest with Parsons, made seven around the world trips visiting 25 countries. He was an outstanding prankster, his victims mainly being his immediate family, but anyone was vulnerable. He was preceded in death by his indomitable son, Joe, and is survived by his wife, Corky (Marcia), and daughters Jessica (Tate) Lofgreen, Rebecca (Pete) Basznianyn, and grandchildren Brayden, Bailey, Peter and Audrey. He was a wonderful husband, father, grandfather and human being, and is deeply missed by his family. A private service will be held at a later date; contributions in his memory can be sent to the Community Food Bank. Thanks for everyone's prayers, and for the incredible support from Casa de la Luz Hospice. Arrangements by ADAIR FUNERAL HOME, Dodge Chapel