Memorial Services Planned For Kimberly Amber Stine

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. The family of Kimberly Amber Stine has announced memorial services to be held in Austin, Texas on Thursday and Friday. Miss Stine, formerly of Pflugerville, Texas, was a graduate student at the University of Arkansas.She passed away Saturday, March 18 as a result of injuries sustained in a vehicular/pedestrian accident on the UA campus on Friday, March 17.

There will be viewing for friends and family on Thursday, March 23 at Harrell's Funeral Home and a memorial service at 3 p.m. Friday, March 24 at University Baptist Church on Friday.Both are located at 2130 Guadalupe St. in Austin, Texas. A memorial service will be scheduled for a later date in Fayetteville. A memorial gifts fund will also be established.

The University community extends its condolences to the family and friends of Miss Stine for this tragic loss.

Kimberly Amber Stine
1976 - 2000
"She was a bright star who fell from the sky too soon."

Kimberly was born July 29, 1976 in Waco, Texas to parents, David and Joan Stine. As a member of a military family, Kimberly attended many schools including Pflugerville Middle School. She graduated from the nationally recognized honors program LAMP, at Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery, Alabama.

After graduation, she entered the University of Arkansas where she completed work for her bachelorÕs degree in December of 1998. She was a Student Ambassador, and a member and officer in both the Pre-Vet Club and Alpha Zeta Honor Society in the School of Agriculture. She then began a program as a graduate assistant toward a Masters Degree in Poultry Science. She also served as treasurer of the Poultry Science Graduate Students Association.

She was wise and witty and lived life with style and grace. She loved all the finer things of life - the art of Monet and Georgia OÕKeefe, the Music of B.B. King and Eric Clapton, the poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson, a good mystery novel and the writings of Jane Austen. She will be sorely missed by friends and family.

She is survived by her parents, Reverend David and Joan Stine of Pflugerville, two sisters, Kristin Stine and Kendra Stine of Austin, grandmother, Marguerite Stine of Austin, grandparents, George and Evelyn Royce, Overton, Texas, and her family at the United States Department of Agriculture, Poultry Production and Product Safety Research Unit, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.