Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....MCGEHEE, THOMAS HARRY April 14, 2016
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News Star World - April 17, 2016
THOMAS HARRY MCGEHEE

Thomas Harry McGehee, 82, of Monroe, died the morning of April 14, 2016. The 
family will receive friends Tuesday, April 19 at twelve o'clock in the morning 
in the nave of St. Alban's Episcopal Church, 2816 Deborah Drive. Visitation 
will be followed by the memorial service at two o'clock in the afternoon, 
officiated by The Reverend T. Whitfield Stodghill III, Rector of St. Alban's 
Episcopal Church, assisted by The Reverend Edward M. Head, Jr., former Rector 
of the parish, Archdeacon Bette Jo Kauffman, and The Reverend Polly Anderson, 
Deacon. Memorial services are under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Homes 
Monroe.

Born at his grandparent's home in The Plains, Louisiana, to Edward Lionel 
McGehee and Margaret Mills McGehee, Mr. McGehee was a devoted member of the 
Mills and McKowen families of north East Baton Rouge parish and the Feliciana 
parishes. A graduate of Zachary High School and Northeast Louisiana State 
College, School of Pharmacy, class of 1962, Mr. McGehee was employed in 
hospitals and pharmacies in north Louisiana and Baton Rouge during his career, 
and was recognized in 2012 for fifty years of dedicated work as a Registered 
Pharmacist. A proud veteran of the United States Army, Mr. McGehee served his 
country during the Korean Conflict in the Military Police.

Mr. McGehee was married to Lynda Jane Eby of Monroe on November 10, 1962 at 
Grace Episcopal Church. He was a former member of The Plains Presbyterian 
Church in The Plains and a member of St. Alban's Episcopal Church, active in 
the choirs of both, and was a soloist at many weddings and family occasions 
through the years. Mr. McGehee spent happy years on the Golson place near 
Cadeville in west Ouachita Parish, and with his wife, reared their children 
there and enjoyed the pleasures of country life. Since 1998, Mr. and Mrs. 
McGehee lived life along the levee of the Ouachita River at their home in 
Monroe, most notably with Heidi, his ever loyal Schnauzer companion.

Mr. McGehee was preceded in death by his parents, Edward Lionel McGehee and 
Margaret Mills McGehee, beloved grandparents, Dr. Thomas Lilley Mills and Mary 
Virginia McKowen Mills, and siblings, Margaret Ann McGehee Samuel and Wilmer 
Mills McGehee, and father-in-law, John Christian Eby, Sr.

Surviving are his wife of fifty-three years, Lynda Eby McGehee; his four 
children, The Reverend Lionel Eby Smith-McGehee and partner The Reverend Thomas 
Smith-McGehee of Maitland, Florida, Elizabeth Mills McGehee and husband Donald 
Straka of Dodgeville, Wisconsin, Amy McGehee FitzGerald and husband The 
Reverend Todd FitzGerald of Austin, Texas, and June Crosley McGehee of Monroe; 
his five granddaughters, Grace Elizabeth Coyne, Napa Valley, California, Hannah 
Rose Coyne, of Dodgeville, Wisconsin, Kate Crosley Smith-McGehee of Maitland, 
Florida, Stella Eby FitzGerald and Florine Kendrick FitzGerald of Austin, 
Texas.

Mr. McGehee is also survived by his siblings, Edward Lionel McGehee and wife 
Ann, Baton Rouge, Mary Elizabeth McGehee and Mabel McGehee Lilley, Jackson, 
John Stark McGehee and wife Lisa of Zachary; his mother-in-law, June Golson 
Eby; and Lynda's siblings, John Christian Eby, Jr., Leah Eby Stewart and 
husband Glenn, all of Monroe; Jane Golson Cutler of Delhi, and by dear and 
cherished members of the McGehee, Mills, McKowen, Eby and Cutler families.

Serving as honorary pallbearers will be John Golson Cutler, Janet Durden, John 
Christian Eby III, Wesley Eby Johnson, Judy Hilton, Pat Regan, Garland Thomas 
Shipp, Grover Webb Stewart, Sarah Stevens and Clyde Morgan Webb.

The family is particularly indebted to the excellent attention and care of Mr. 
McGehee from the nurses, aides and staff of the Northeast Louisiana War 
Veterans Home in Monroe.

The family kindly requests memorials be made to St. Alban's Episcopal Church, 
Monroe, Louisiana.

Online condolence messages may be sent to the family at 
www.kilpatrickfuneralhomes.com.

Kilpatrick Funeral Home

Monroe, LA

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