Rogers Co. Obit for: Ralph Howard McKay
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Date: 2/01/2003 by: Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com
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1/21/2003

Ralph McKay

Services for Ralph McKay will be 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23 at the Blue Starr 
Church of Christ in Claremore, with Robert Padgett officiating. 

Interment will follow in the Chelsea Cemetery, under the direction of 
Seaman-Blanke Funeral Service of Chelsea.

Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Ralph died Monday, Jan. 20, 2003 at the Veterans Center in Claremore. 
He was 92.

Ralph Howard McKay was born Oct. 25, 1910 in Alluwe to Alvin and Nancy 
Rebecca (Baker) McKay. 

He served in the Army from April 1943 until December of 1945. 

On Feb. 21, 1953, he married Doris McDonald in Newton County, Ark.

He retired from American Airlines, where he worked as a welder. He was a member 
of the Central Christian Church, where he served as a Deacon and was a member of 
the American Airlines Transportation Workers Union.

He is preceded in death by his parents; daughter, Marsha McKay Jones on Aug. 12, 
1992; sister, Coletta Pannell on Jan. 14, 2003; and two grandchildren, Talena 
and Katrina.

Ralph is survived by his wife, Doris Pauline McKay of the home in Claremore; 
grandson, Flinten Jones of Pryor; granddaughters, Shaylin Williams and Kristen 
Roach, both of Claremore; great-grandson, Hudson Williams of Claremore; and 
sisters, Waunita Fair of Mustang and JoAnn Fluke and husband, Oran of Miami, 
Okla.


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