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Arthur McKay

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Arthur McKay

Birth
Ironwood Township, Gogebic County, Michigan, USA
Death
1968 (aged 43–44)
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
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Funeral services for Arthur Mc Kay, 44, of 555 E. Surf St., Chicago, formerly of Manitowoc, who died Sunday at Veterans Administration Research Hospital, Chicago, will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Pfeffer Funeral Home and at 10 a.m. at St. Paul Catholic Church, Manitowoc. The Very Rev. Clement P. Kern will officiate and burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Manitowoc.
Mr. Mc Kay was born March 2, 1924, at Ironwood, Mich., son of the late Sherman Mc Kay and Mrs. Ruth Ritchay Mc Kay. He was graduated from Lincoln High School, Manitowoc, in 1943 and had been residing in Chicago since 1964.He was a veteran of World War II and the Ko rean Conflict. He entered the U.S. Air Force June 9, 1943, and was discharged March 5, 1946. He served in the Korean War from May 6, 1948, until May 5, 1952. Mc Kay had been awarded the presidential distinguished unit citation and the Oak Leaf cluster to the Air Medal for outstanding performance of duty as radio operator on a flying box car. He also had the Asiatic
Pacific theater ribbon with three battle stars and the Air Medal with Oak Leaf cluster and the Japanese occupation ribbon.
Survivors include his mother, a brother, Sherman Jr., of Manitowoc and two sisters, Mrs. S. C. (Lucille) Shand and Mrs. B. W. (Ruth) Nies, of Crystal Lake, Ill. A brother preceded him in death.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 o’clock this Tuesday evening where at 8 o’clock the Rosary will be recited.
Manitowoc Herald Times, October 22, 1968 P. 16
Contributor: Keri (49116696) •

Funeral services for Arthur Mc Kay, 44, of 555 E. Surf St., Chicago, formerly of Manitowoc, who died Sunday at Veterans Administration Research Hospital, Chicago, will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Pfeffer Funeral Home and at 10 a.m. at St. Paul Catholic Church, Manitowoc. The Very Rev. Clement P. Kern will officiate and burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Manitowoc.
Mr. Mc Kay was born March 2, 1924, at Ironwood, Mich., son of the late Sherman Mc Kay and Mrs. Ruth Ritchay Mc Kay.
Funeral services for Arthur Mc Kay, 44, of 555 E. Surf St., Chicago, formerly of Manitowoc, who died Sunday at Veterans Administration Research Hospital, Chicago, will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Pfeffer Funeral Home and at 10 a.m. at St. Paul Catholic Church, Manitowoc. The Very Rev. Clement P. Kern will officiate and burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Manitowoc.
Mr. Mc Kay was born March 2, 1924, at Ironwood, Mich., son of the late Sherman Mc Kay and Mrs. Ruth Ritchay Mc Kay. He was graduated from Lincoln High School, Manitowoc, in 1943 and had been residing in Chicago since 1964.He was a veteran of World War II and the Ko rean Conflict. He entered the U.S. Air Force June 9, 1943, and was discharged March 5, 1946. He served in the Korean War from May 6, 1948, until May 5, 1952. Mc Kay had been awarded the presidential distinguished unit citation and the Oak Leaf cluster to the Air Medal for outstanding performance of duty as radio operator on a flying box car. He also had the Asiatic
Pacific theater ribbon with three battle stars and the Air Medal with Oak Leaf cluster and the Japanese occupation ribbon.
Survivors include his mother, a brother, Sherman Jr., of Manitowoc and two sisters, Mrs. S. C. (Lucille) Shand and Mrs. B. W. (Ruth) Nies, of Crystal Lake, Ill. A brother preceded him in death.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 o’clock this Tuesday evening where at 8 o’clock the Rosary will be recited.
Manitowoc Herald Times, October 22, 1968 P. 16
Contributor: Keri (49116696) •

Funeral services for Arthur Mc Kay, 44, of 555 E. Surf St., Chicago, formerly of Manitowoc, who died Sunday at Veterans Administration Research Hospital, Chicago, will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Pfeffer Funeral Home and at 10 a.m. at St. Paul Catholic Church, Manitowoc. The Very Rev. Clement P. Kern will officiate and burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Manitowoc.
Mr. Mc Kay was born March 2, 1924, at Ironwood, Mich., son of the late Sherman Mc Kay and Mrs. Ruth Ritchay Mc Kay.


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