Make us your homepage | Subscriptions

The Northern Valley's most up-to-date site.

Published February 13, 2012, 12:00 AM

Jill Kinmont Boothe (2011)


Jill Kinmont Boothe is photographed in her home in Bishop, Calif., on May 13, 2011. Boothe, the skiing champion who became a painter and a teacher after being paralyzed during a race in 1955, has died. She was 75. The Los Angeles Times quotes a coroner’s official who says Kinmont Booth died Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012 at a hospital in Carson City, Nev. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Ricardo DeAratanha)
Read the article: OBIT: Jill Kinmont Boothe, 75, paralyzed ski champ, subject of book, 2 films