Title	Mr.
Last Name	Kinney
First Name	Fay
Middle Name	Delancey
Maiden Name
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Dexter, ME
Date of Birth	1886?
Place of Death	Boston, MA
Date of Death	1939-04-16
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 5-18-1939, p.3
Obituary	Fay Delancey Kinney Fay Delancey Kinney, 53, died suddenly at the Corey Hill Hospital, Boston, on Sunday, April 16. Funeral services were held in Southbridge, Mass., where he was a resident, on April 19. Mr. Kinney was born in Dexter, Maine, and was graduated from the University of Maine with the Class of 1910. He was a member of the Signa Nu Fraternity and was one of the designers of the new fraternity house on the campus. In 1915 he married Miss Maud Morgan of Boston. After graduation he became assistant mechanical engineer of the Revere Rubber Company of Chelsea, Mass. where he remained until 1916 at which time he accepted the position of assistant superintendent of the Foster Machine Company of Westfield, Mass. In 1919 he was made superintendent of the Tyer Rubber Company of Andover, Mass., and in 1920 became associated with the United Shoe Machinery Corporation of Beverly, Mass., and was the inventor of rubber shoe machinery. He went with the American Optical Company of Southbridge in 1929, and was at the head of the engineering department of research and construction of special machinery. He was a member of the Universalist church of Southbridge, and of the Southbrdige Technical Society. He is survived by his wife, and daughter Mavis, a pupil of the Vesper George School of Art, his father, Charles Kinney, an uncle, the Rev. Theodore Kinney, an aunt Miss Charlotte Kinney of Middleton, and a brother, Laurence of Arlington, Mass. The body was taken to Middleton for burial in the family plot at Oakdale Cemetery. Mr. Kinney was a man of strong personality, of genial disposition and was much beloved by all who knew him. His friends and acquaintances regard his passing as a personal loss.