Beckham County, OK - Obits: Jennie F. McKean, 1918
23 August 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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MC KEAN, JENNIE F.
(12 Feb 1918, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
IN MEMORY MRS. W. H. McKEAN
Born April 27, 1852
Died February 10, 1918.
Miss Jennie McBurney was born at Mercer, Pennsylvania, April 27th, 1852,
where she lived until she was fifteen years of age, when her parents moved
to Iowa, where she was united in marriage to W. H. McKean on November
26th, 1873.  To this union was born four children, three of whom survive: 
Mrs. Mabel Biglow, of St. Hiliare, Minn., C. W. McKean, Forgan, Okla., and
Mrs. Ralph Lauderdale, Elk City, Okla.  There are three grandsons and a
number of relatives to mourn her death.
Mrs. McKean was converted to Christ at the age of fourteen years and
united with the Presbyterian Church, and had always been an active member
and consecrated Christian.
Mr. McKean and family moved to Oklahoma and located at Elk City, May 5,
1905, where they have resided ever since, and where she has made many
friends, who testify that to know her was to appreciate her worth that
they never met a more spiritual person, and that she never lost an
opportunity to speak a word for Christ.  She was a great sufferer for
years, but was ever patient through her sickness.  Her friends and
neighbors said a visit with her was always an inspiration, and they could
not be with her without being helped.  She knew so many passages of the
bible and when unable to read, she said she was glad she had the word of
God in her heart and mind, for it was a great comfort to her to think of
all the precious promises, and she relied implicity on them.
She was ever willing and ready to help those about her who were in
trouble, and friends had often called, and found her fixing things for
those in need.  Truly the world was made better by her having lived in it.
 Her life was one her loved ones might adopt, her friends might follow
with consistency and strangers might with profit emulate.  She leaves a
rich legacy for her children in her pure, upright life.
The funeral services held at the Presbyterian Church on Tuesday afternoon,
February 12th, were attended by a large assembly, and Rev. Posey made a
very appropriate address, after which the body was tenderly laid to rest
in the Fairlawn cemetery.

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