Kline Osborn Pugh, age 92, a resident of Gainesville, Georgia, passed away on November 2, 2022, in the comfort of his home.
A native of Alabama he was President of his high school senior class, where he excelled in basketball and baseball. After graduation, he briefly played with a professional baseball team before enlisting in the United States Air Force shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War. He worked 50 years in the printing industry, retiring as a vice-president of a subsidiary company of AT&T. He was an authority in printing techniques and printing machinery engineering. In this capacity, he traveled over 20 times to Europe, Australia and Japan.
He was a noted amateur genealogist and identified 15 ancestors who participated in the Revolutionary War. He was a member of The Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) serving 12 years as State Secretary of the Georgia Society. He was a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Oakwood.
He was preceded in death by his son, David Kline Pugh.
Survivors are his wife of 69 years, Patricia Knight Pugh; daughters Lisa Messina and Gina Bell; six grandchildren Corey Pugh, David Butler, Anthony Messina, Alicia Pugh, Erica Upchurch and Sarah Greene and seven great-grandchildren.
Mr. Pugh’s ashes will be interred in Alabama.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the Whitfield Funeral Home & Crematory, South Chapel at 1370 Industrial Boulevard, Baldwin, Georgia. Telephone 706-778-7123.
