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Amarillo Globe News 9 Jun 1997

Robert McKinley Sr.

Robert McKinley Sr., 63, of Amarillo, died Sunday, June 8, 1997.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in St. Stephen United Methodist Church 
with the Rev. Jim Smith, pastor, and the Rev. Dean Wynn, associate pastor, 
officiating. Burial will be at 10:30 a.m. in Llano Cemetery. Arrangements 
are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2820 Virginia Circle.

Mr. McKinley was born in St. John, Kan. He graduated from Hooker High 
School in Hooker. He received his bachelor of science degree from Panhandle 
State University in Goodwell. He received his master's degree from the 
University of Oklahoma and completed graduate work at the University of 
Arkansas, West Texas State University and the University of Oklahoma 
Biological Station at Lake Texhoma.

He was a professor of biology at Amarillo College for 30 years. He served 
with the Army from 1953 until 1956. He was a member of the Southwest 
Association of Naturalists, Oklahoma Academy of Science, Texas Community 
College Association and the Hooker Masonic Lodge.

He was also a member of St. Stephen United Methodist Church, where he was 
active in the Covenant Sunday school class and served on the 
administrative board.

He married Glenda Stevens in 1962 at Hooker.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Robert McKinley Jr. of Hampton, Va., 
and Kristopher McKinley of Owasso, Okla.; three daughters, Sandra Burdis 
and Donna Cleere, both of Amarillo, and Connie Dreher of El Dorado, Kan.; 
his mother, Gretchen Linnenkamp of Hooker, two brothers, Bill McKinley of 
Hooker and Bill Nuttle of Canoga Park, Calif.; two sisters, Evelyn Joy 
Denney of Tujunga, Calif., and Kay Howard of Columbus, Kan.; and nine 
grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice and Life 
Enrichment Center, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, Texas 79176-0001, or to Robert 
E. McKinley Sr. Scholarship, care of Amarillo College Foundation, P.O. Box 
447, Amarillo, Texas 79105-9973.
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