Fred Majors

Fred Allen Majors, 97, currently living in Kamiah, Idaho, passed to his eternal rest in Heaven on Tuesday 21 January, 2025.

He was born April 4, 1927 in Danville, Illinois to Bertie and Alice (Walthall) Majors. He was the second of four boys in their family.

Until the age of 14 the family lived on a farm near Quaker, Indiana, after which they moved to a farm near Kingman, Indiana.

Fred graduated from Kingman High School in the spring of 1945 and then entered the Navy, serving in the Pacific for the last several months of WW2. He signed up for the Air Force during the Korean War. About this time he reconnected with a neighboring farm girl from the Quaker area, Dorothy Castle. The two were married in Spokane, Washington, on March 24,1952, where Fred was stationed at Fairchild Air Base.

Fred was shortly after stationed at Yakota Air Base in Japan for seven months, where he flew night reconnaissance missions over North Korea to photograph the countryside.

He returned to the states in time for the birth of his first son, Stephen, born in Topeka, Kansas.

Upon mustering out of the Air Force in 1954 Fred and Dorothy returned to Ridge Farm, Illinois, to farm the Castle farm, where they would be for the next 30 years. Two daughters were born there, Janice and Becky, and two Korean children were adopted, Allen at age 1 and Ann at age 5. They were a musical family, traveled a lot, and made friends everywhere. They were always involved in church.

After their kids were older, Fred started a second career in construction in Houston TX. This new career led Fred and Dorothy to travel and work jobs from coast to coast over a 10 year span. After Fred retired from his second career, Fred and Dorothy moved to Zavalla, Texas where they raised emus, continued to travel, stayed connected with family, made new friends, and were always involved in church activities.

In 1999 they returned to Ridge Farm, where they lived when Dorothy passed in October 2015. In late 2020 Fred moved to Kamiah, Idaho to be near family.

He is survived by his 5 children - Stephen (Bonnie) Majors of Kamiah, ID, Jan (Rick) Kvam of Rochester, MN, Becky (Tucker) Quetone of Rochester, MN, Ann (Michael) Lashansky Majors of Glen Allen, VA, and Allen Majors of Seoul, Korea, his 21 grandchildren, and 23 great grandchildren.

There will be a memorial service at the Hopewell Friends Church, Quaker, Indiana on February 8, 2025 at 2:00 pm Indiana time.