Ector Co. TX - Obits from the Odessa American Online 11 Feb 2000 Submitted by Charlene Beatty Beauchamp cbodessa@classicnet.net Thanks to the Odessa American Online http://www.oaoa.com/ ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OA Online Obituaries. February 11, 2000 Permian Basin Obituaries _________________________________________________________________ ODESSA — Francis McKee was born Nov. 30, 1925, in Boone County, Iowa, to Carroll and Grace Karnes McKee. He passed away Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2000, in Odessa. Services are scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, 2000, at St. John’s Episcopal Church with Rev. Laura Deaderick officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Mr. McKee served in the Army Air Force during World War II. He served as a B-17 aircrew member in the 8th Air Force, 748th Bomber Squadron and the 457th Bomb Group. He was honorably discharged as a staff sergeant. After the war, he married Jacque Driscoll on June 1, 1955, in Gallipolis, Ohio. They came to Odessa in 1960. He worked as vice president for a division of Refchem from 1960 to 1973. In 1973 he moved to Houston and worked for Universal Maintenance Construction Co. as its accounting manager. His sister preceded him in death. Survivors include his daughters, Julie McKee and Laura Doenz and her husband, Monte, all of Odessa; brother, William Carroll McKee of Denver; and one granddaughter, Casey Michelle Mohler of Odessa. Services are under the care of Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. _________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 2000 Odessa American. All rights reserved.