Berlie E. McKinney
14 June 1886 - 10 November 1971
Van Alstyne Leader
Thursday,
Nov 18, 1971
Mrs.
Birlie McKinney
Services
for
Mrs. Birllie E. McKinney, 79, were held
Wednesday, November 10, at the Morning Chapel
CME Church of Van Alstyne. She died
Monday, November 8, at 4:20 a.m. in a Van
Alstyne nursing home. Rev. T.G.
Kirkpatrick officiated, with burial in the Van
Alstyne Cemetery.
Mrs.
McKinney
was born in Van Alstyne, the daughter of the
late Baker and Bycie Bowen. She married
Henry McKinney in 1910 in Van Alstyne.
She was a member of the Watts Brown Chapter,
395, Order of Eastern Star, and the Morning
Chapel CME Church.
Survivors
include
her son, Claude McKinney of Van Alstyne; three
brothers, Phillip and Rev. Cecil Bowen, both
of Sherman, and William Bowen of Portland,
Ore.; one sister, Mrs. Annie Mae Bowen of
Ballinger, Tex.; one grandson, one
great-grandson and several nieces and nephews.
Her
death certificate says her parents were Baker
Bowen and Bycie Bruce.
Claude McKinney was the informant.
She had a cardio vascular event and
arteriosclerosis
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