REV. KINDELL CHOSEN AS NEW PRINCIPAL
Rev. Felix R. Kindel has been selected to serve as principal of high school until the close of the present school year, according to School Superintendent M. S. Roach. The change replaces Ed Killian, who resigned to enter the Public Welfare Division of civil service and is now taking a 4-week course in case studies in Ft. Worth, preparatory to taking over his duties in Henderson.
Mr. Killian has not only served as principal during the present school year, but has also instructed in history, junior business training, the band, boys' basketball and where needed. Mrs. Killian will continue her dutiies here as teacher of home economics and English through the present term.

The Carrollton Chronicle - April 7, 1944

Services for Felix R. Kindel, a retired pastor and former schoolteacher, will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Restland Funeral Home's Wildwood Chapel of Dallas. Burial will follow at Restland Memorial Park.

Mr. Kindel died Thursday at Baylor University Medical Center. He was 82.

The native of Whitt, Texas, became a minister when he was 17 and worked throughout Texas for 61 years. He retired from Munger Place United Methodist Church in Dallas in 1987.

He attended Weatherford Junior College and Southwestern University before earning his bachelor's degree at the University of North Texas in Denton. He also attended the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. During the Great Depression, he taught school in Newport, Texas.

His daughter, Aquilla Ann Kindel Freeman, said her father was very committed.

"He was a caring and compassionate, not only to the churches he served but to his family," she said.

Mr. Kindel is also survived by three grandchildren, Michael Freeman, Kerry Freeman and Kayla Freeman; and a great-grandson, Jordon Taylor, all of Garland.

The Dallas Morning News - July 24, 1994