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John Dexter McKinley

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John Dexter McKinley

Birth
Louisa County, Iowa, USA
Death
7 Jan 1937 (aged 76)
Louisa County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Cairo, Louisa County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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JOHN DEXTER MCKINLEY, A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF CAIRO, PASSED AWAY IN HIS HOME, JANUARY 7TH, AT 5 O’CLOCK A.M. AFTER A PROLONGED ILLNESS. HE WAS BORN IN LOUISA COUNTY ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1960, AND WAS 77 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AND 17 DAYS OF AGE. HE WAS A SON OF STEPHEN AND HANNAH (REILEY) MCKINLEY. THERE WERE TWELVE CHILDREN IN THIS FAMILY, NINE DIED IN INFANCY. AUSBURN DIED A THE FIFTEEN. ONE SISTER MRS. FLORENCE (PARDY) HOWE WHOSE HOME IS IN TOPEKA, KANSAS IS ALL THAT IS LEFT. MRS. HOWE IS IN CALIFORNIA THIS WINTER WITH A DAUGHTER. SHE IS 80 YEARS OF AGE. ROY REILEY A COUSIN WHO LIVES IN DES MOINES IS THE NEAREST RELATIVE. BERT MCKINLEY OF MORNING SUN IS A DISTANT RELATIVE.
ALTHOUGH THE DECEASE WAS QUIET AND UNASSUMING, HE HAD A PERSONALITY THAT MADE HIM MANY FRIENDS. ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT LAVISH AFFECTIONS ON CHILDREN THERE WAS SOMETHING DECK’S EYES THAT TOLD THEM THAT HE REALLY LOVED THEM, AND ALL LIKED TO BE WITH HIME, EVEN TO THE SMALLEST. AS YEARS WENT ON THE CHILDREN BECAME MEN AND WOMEN AND THEY STILL ADMIRED THE TRUE FRIEND OF THEIR CHILDHOOD DAYS.
THE FUNERAL SERVCIES WRE HELD IN THE CAIRO EVANGELICAL CHURCH SATURDAY AT 10:30 REV. L.B. DEEDRICK PREACHED A VERY APPROPRAITE SERMON. THE CHOIR COMPOSED OF MR. AND MRS. ALBERT HALL, MRS. LESTER GIPPLE AND MRS. GEORGE GIPPLE SAND SEVERAL SONGS. THEY WERE ACCOMPANIED BY MRS. THOMAS WYKERT AT THE PAINO. THE PALLBEARERS WERE ALVINS SELLERS, HOMER WINDER, LYMAN OGIER. T.A. BERSHIRE, GEORGE MARSHALL AND RAY WHISTLER. HE WAS LAID TO REST IN THE CAIRO CEMETERY.
JOHN DEXTER MCKINLEY, A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF CAIRO, PASSED AWAY IN HIS HOME, JANUARY 7TH, AT 5 O’CLOCK A.M. AFTER A PROLONGED ILLNESS. HE WAS BORN IN LOUISA COUNTY ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1960, AND WAS 77 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AND 17 DAYS OF AGE. HE WAS A SON OF STEPHEN AND HANNAH (REILEY) MCKINLEY. THERE WERE TWELVE CHILDREN IN THIS FAMILY, NINE DIED IN INFANCY. AUSBURN DIED A THE FIFTEEN. ONE SISTER MRS. FLORENCE (PARDY) HOWE WHOSE HOME IS IN TOPEKA, KANSAS IS ALL THAT IS LEFT. MRS. HOWE IS IN CALIFORNIA THIS WINTER WITH A DAUGHTER. SHE IS 80 YEARS OF AGE. ROY REILEY A COUSIN WHO LIVES IN DES MOINES IS THE NEAREST RELATIVE. BERT MCKINLEY OF MORNING SUN IS A DISTANT RELATIVE.
ALTHOUGH THE DECEASE WAS QUIET AND UNASSUMING, HE HAD A PERSONALITY THAT MADE HIM MANY FRIENDS. ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT LAVISH AFFECTIONS ON CHILDREN THERE WAS SOMETHING DECK’S EYES THAT TOLD THEM THAT HE REALLY LOVED THEM, AND ALL LIKED TO BE WITH HIME, EVEN TO THE SMALLEST. AS YEARS WENT ON THE CHILDREN BECAME MEN AND WOMEN AND THEY STILL ADMIRED THE TRUE FRIEND OF THEIR CHILDHOOD DAYS.
THE FUNERAL SERVCIES WRE HELD IN THE CAIRO EVANGELICAL CHURCH SATURDAY AT 10:30 REV. L.B. DEEDRICK PREACHED A VERY APPROPRAITE SERMON. THE CHOIR COMPOSED OF MR. AND MRS. ALBERT HALL, MRS. LESTER GIPPLE AND MRS. GEORGE GIPPLE SAND SEVERAL SONGS. THEY WERE ACCOMPANIED BY MRS. THOMAS WYKERT AT THE PAINO. THE PALLBEARERS WERE ALVINS SELLERS, HOMER WINDER, LYMAN OGIER. T.A. BERSHIRE, GEORGE MARSHALL AND RAY WHISTLER. HE WAS LAID TO REST IN THE CAIRO CEMETERY.


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