Evelyn Bird McKinley, Obituary, 9 November, 2001, Coke County, TX

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The Observer/Enterprise, 30 Nov 2001, Robert Lee, TX

McKINLEY

Evelyn Bird McKinley, 96, died November 2, 2001, at her residence in 
Robert Lee. Funeral services were held at Robert Lee Baptist church on 
Monday, November 5, 2001.  Reverend Roy Lane, pastor of First 
Evangelical Methodist Church officiated.  Burial followed in Sanco 
Cemetery with arrangements by Shaffer Funeral Home.  Mrs. McKinley was 
born at Sanco, Texas, January 27, 1905, to Ira A. and Mary Maud
Cosby Bird.  She attended Sanco school, graduated from San Angelo High 
School and Hardin Simmons University.  She taught school at Union, 
Friendship and Silver in Coke County.

She married Aubrey F. McKinley December 6, 1930, at Sanco, Texas.  She 
and her husband farmed and ranched on the Colorado River 12 miles 
northwest of Robert Lee.  She was a board member of the First 
Evangelical Methodist Church in San Angelo. She was preceded in death 
by her husband, Aubrey and one sone, Robert Bird McKinley; her parents; 
and one sister, Mary Jo Pentecost.

She is ssurvived by one daughter, June McKinley Gulley and husband 
Bob of Robert Lee, one grandson, Lynn Gulley of San Angelo.  also 
surviving are one hephew, James B. Pentecost and wife, Kathy, two 
grandnieces Janet Tinsley and husband, Ron, and Rachel Frost and 
Husband, Jason; and two grandnephews, Mike and Travis Pentecost.
Pallbearers were Mike Pentecost, Travis Pentecost, Jason Frost, Ron 
Tinsley, Curtis Walker and Lonnies Bloodworth.

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