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::Mill Creek Cemetery--Sulphur OK

Amarillo Globe News 28 Sep 1997

May McKinney

PORTALES - May McKinney, 92, died Friday, Sept. 26, 1997.

Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Mill Creek 
Cemetery at Sulphur, Okla., with Tom Byrd, Mrs. McKinney's nephew, 
officiating. Arrangements are by Clagg Funeral Home of Sulphur.

Mrs. McKinney was born in Norman, Okla., and grew up in Drake, Okla., 
near Sulphur. She graduated from high school in 1926 at Mill Creek, 
Okla. She married Bill McKinney in 1926. The couple moved to Fort 
Sumner in 1930. He died in 1935. Mrs. McKinney began teaching second 
grade in Taiban in 1936 and transferred to Fort Sumner the following 
year.

Mrs. McKinney earned a temporary teaching certificate by attending 
summer classes at Ada, Okla., and later at Eastern New Mexico College 
at Portales, where she later earned her college degree. She moved to 
Portales in 1948 and taught second grade at L.L. Brown Elementary 
School and R.M. James School. Mrs. McKinney retired in 1970.

She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Fort Sumner and 
the Retired Teachers Association.

Survivors include a son, Noel McKinney of Fort Worth, Texas; a 
daughter, Willine Jones of Portales; four sisters, Onie Driver, 
Estelle Chaffin and Mozell Howe, all of Sulphur, and Nell Howe of 
Monticello, Ark.; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

The body will be available for viewing at Wheeler Mortuary until 6 
p.m. today.
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