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J. Hie McKinney
1877 - 1933

Lola N. McKinney
1881 - 1973

Van Alstyne - Funeral services for J. Hie McKinney, 56, who died at his home in Quanah Thursday morning are to be held at the First Christian church in Van Alstyne at 2 p.m. Friday. Burial will follow in Van Alstyne cemetery. The local pastor, the Rev. Lloyd Mottley, and the Rev. Leo Johnstone of Dallas,
a former pastor, will officiate.
Mr. McKinney was born in Van Alstyne in January, 1877, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe A. McKinney. His father was a descendant of the North Texas pioneer, Collin McKinney, and his mother a member of the Kepler family who were also pioneers. He received his education in Van Alstyne, graduating at Old Columbia college and later attending a business college in Dallas. He was associated with his father in the ginning and milling business here for many years, assuming entire control upon the death of his father. He kept the business until 1923 when he disposed of his interests and became connected with the West Texas Oil and Gin Company. Later he was promoted to the managership of the company's plants, being stationed successively at Colorado, Midland, Lubbock and Quanah which was his home at the time of his death.
He was prominent in Masonry, affiliated with the Mantua lodge at Van Alstyne.
While living in Van Alstyne Mr. McKinney served as superintendent of the Christian Sunday school for a number of years, he was a member of the school board and president of the Van Alstyne cemetery association.
In 1899 he was married to Miss Lola Neathery, who with their son James, two sisters, Misses Gresham and Margie Dell McKinney of McKinney and a number of other relatives survive him.

Van Alstyne Leader
February 15, 1973

Services were held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. in Dannel Funeral Chapel in Sherman for Mrs. Lola Neathery McKinney, 91, who died Saturday night in a Sherman hospital. Rev. Fred T. Hall of the Central Christian Church officiated and burial was in Van Alstyne Cemetery.
Born July 25, 1881, at Pilot Grove, she was the daughter of the late James E. and Georgia Hayes Neathery. She was married to J. Hie McKinney in 1901 at Van Alstyne. She was a resident of this area most of her life but had moved here in 1960 from Quanah. She was a member of Central Christian Church.
Her only survivors are a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Edith McKinney of Quanah; and a granddaughter, Mrs. Phillip Reimer of Sherman.