Fred Stine died November 3, 2017 in Winchester, Virginia. He was born April 21, 1934 in Winchester. He was the son of Isaac Frederick Stine, Sr. and Shirley Oakes Stine of Fort Collier Farms in Frederick County, VA.
He graduated from Handley High School in Winchester and received BS and MBA degrees from the University of Tennessee and Northeastern University in Boston, respectively. At Tennessee he was president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
He served as a lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force for three years, flying with the Strategic Air Command. His business career involved corporate management positions with General Electric, Champion International and Mead Corporation. A majority of his career was devoted to international sales and marketing. He traveled extensively in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and parts of Africa.
In 1993 he returned to Virginia where he purchased a small farm in Delaplane, Fauquier County. His latter years were spent as a private business consultant. He held an interest in a packaging business in Costa Rica until 2000.
Fred was active with Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Delaplane where he was a member of the vestry. He also participated with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He was a member of the board of the Fort Collier Civil War Center in Winchester and a member of the Preservation of Historic Winchester.
He is survived by a son, Stephen, who lives in Singapore with this wife Anne Hockett; granddaughters Madeline and Rebecca Stine; daughter Laura, who lives in Los Angeles; granddaughter Kaelerae; sister and brother-in-law Susan and Jim Williams of Greenville, SC; and Deborah Stine of Durham, NC.
A memorial service will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Shenandoah Valley Westminster-Canterbury with Pastor Michael Mullins officiating. Interment will be private.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made to either Make-A-Wish Foundation or the Fort Collier Civil War Center.