Debbe Lynn Kindt

Debra Lynn Kindt, who we all know by her preferred name Debbe, made her first appearance on September 7, 1954 at the Hollywood (California) Kaiser Hospital and was an immediate hit. It seemed to her parents, John and Joan Kindt, that the whole hospital came to see this beautiful newborn with her thick shock of red hair. Debbe was the firstborn of the three children John and Joan were to have (Laurie and John Jr. followed). She was also the first of seven cousins who would grow up more like siblings than cousins (Julie, Jennifer, Robin and Jamie Lynne), because of the close friendship John and Joan enjoyed with their parents who all lived in close proximity to each other in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles: John's sister Elaine and her husband Jim, and John's brother Lynn and his wife Jamie. They did practically everything together, which included Sunday dinner—every Sunday—at John's parents E. O. and Amanda Kindt, who also lived nearby.

Debbe's first caretaker, while Joan worked and John went to school and also worked, was her grandmother, Amanda Kindt, which was to forge a lifelong comradery between the two. It was during these early years that Debbe started to display an exceptional creativity. For example, she would introduce you to her invisible friend. By fourth grade she had already begun work on her first book.

Debbe attended grade school at First Lutheran, Van Nuys, and was to continue through Lutheran Junior High, Reseda, and Lutheran High, Inglewood, where she graduated in 1972. She went on to Northern Arizona University, eventually finishing her bachelor's degree at Cal State Fullerton. She studied for her masters in TV Production at Syracuse University. After graduation, Debbe returned to South Africa where she had for a time lived with her parents when her father, John, did a three-year stint building his firm's office there. She worked for an advertising firm, and lived in the Hillbrow neighborhood of Johannesburg, which was at the time the hip area for young urbanites. While there she owned a horse. Debbe had a lifelong passion for horses. Instead of Barbies, Debbe would have horses to play with as a child. In High School, she performed at events and parades with a dressage group called the Blue Shadows.

She eventually moved back to the US and lived in Seattle, Washington for a time. With a friend and a classic Rolls Royce, she started the Seattle branch of her brother's Los Angeles based Prime Time Limousine. When her brother launched Prime Time Airport Shuttle, Debbe returned to LA to run Prime Time Limousine. It was during this time that Debbe owned a classic 1973 Mustang convertible, which she lovingly referred to as "The Banana". When Prime Time Limousine was sold, Debbe continued her wanderlust and moved this time to Florida. Here she lived the beach life, biking to and from her job managing a restaurant, enjoying good friends, and indulging her love of scuba diving.

She moved once again to Incline Village, Nevada, to be close to her parents. Here she gained her real estate license, and ended up spending more than a decade there in property management. It was through this that she met and married Scott Plischke. Although this marriage eventually ended in divorce, she enjoyed a fairytale wedding sailing aboard a catamaran on Lake Tahoe, with a flyby by one of her buddies in his P-51 "Mustang" airplane.

Debbe faced many challenges in her life that would have flattened mere mortals, but endured, and eventually overcame to the admiration of her surviving mother (Joan), sister (Laurie) and brother (John Jr.). We greatly grieve her passing, but are comforted that because of her faith in Jesus Christ her Lord, we will see her again in that perfect place where there is no more pain and no more tears.

Funeral Home:
Green Hills Mortuary and Memorial Chapel
27501 S.Western Ave.
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
US 90275