The Patricia A. Hines Minner Memorial

The Rt. Rev. Christopher Epting dedicated the Memorial on June 22, 2000. It commemorates the life of Patricia (Tricia) Ann Hines Minner. She was born in Creston on December 29, 1944 to Katherine Roland Hines and Ted Hines. She graduated from the Creston High School in 1963 and received her R.N. at the Methodist Hospital in St. Joseph, MO. She served in the U.S. Air Force as a nurse and flight nurse and had reached the rank of 2nd Lt. when she was honorably discharged in 1968. She married Dale E. Minner, MD in January 1970 in Seattle where they attended St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral. She studied photography and business at the Evergreen State College near Olympia, Washington. She served her photography internship at the Photo Print Works in Seattle where she bought out one of the partners. She and Steve Meltzer started a stock photo agency, West Stock that has since became part of ImageState. She became a noted magazine and stock photographer before she sold the agency. She leaves one daughter, Jenni S. Minner, one grand daughter, Julia Amos, born after her death and was survived briefly by her mother Katherine Hines.

She had wide ranging interests that included Iowa Master Gardening and she trained to be and practiced as a hospital chaplain. She was an intensive care nurse, and administered chemotherapy for an oncologist in Idaho. She was a candidate for ordination to the permanent deaconate of the Episcopal Church. She taught piano and played the tuba at the Creston High School. She sang bass in the Sweet Adelines. She was a sailor who raced Coronado 25 sloops and who owned and operated her own Fisher 25 motor sailor. She lived with Jenni and Dale aboard the 42-foot ketch Pou Sto in the waters around Seattle from 1974 through 1978. She served as the web-master for the Iowa Nurses Association, taught HTML at the University of Iowa where she received the BSN degree on May 15, 1998. She was a graduate student who was scheduled to receive her M.S. in Nursing Informatics at the time of her untimely death from heart disease on September 16, 1999.

She represented and was friends with more than ninety northwest artists during her time at West Stock. One of these was Richard Beyer, the sculptor of the memorial. For more information about Rich try a Google Search using the keywords “Richard Beyer sculpture”.

Tricia circa 1997

The Memorial Tricia in the San Juan Islands, 1973

12-year-old Tricia (right) with her sisters, Susan and Jennifer