Joan Delores McKinney's Obituary
Joan McKinney of Boonville surrendered her soul to Christ on Thursday, June 17, 2010 at Boone Hospital Center. Graveside services will be held at Tuesday , June 22, 2010 at Bethel Memorial Gardens at 10:00 am. Visitation will be held from 6-7 pm Monday at the H.T. May and Son Funeral Home in Boonville.
She was born in Bunceton Missouri on January 2, 1948 the daughter of Leon and Gladys Wright who preceded her in death.
She graduated from Bunceton High School in 1965 where she was extremely active in band, choir and sports. After high school; she attended Key punch school. She was a member of Bethel A.M.E. Church in Speed, Mo., where she played the piano for many years and various organizations.
She worked for McDonald Douglas Aviation in Columbia, Mo and later moved to Kansas City, Mo where she met and married the love of her life Milton McKinney for 40 years. She was employed at T.W.A. and they later moved to Colorado and then they returned to their new home in Boonville, Mo.
TO their union four children were born, Toyika McKinney-Sloan , Tonya McKinney(Toby Calloway), Tonette McKinney, Milton McKinney Jr. and one adopted daughter Kirsten Conson, five grandchildren Tyra and Tailyn McKinney-Callaway, Trinity and Tre’viana Sloan , Milton Jace McKinney and one step-granddaughter Alycia Felgar, two sisters Nellie Ann Ross who preceded her in death, and Brenda Wright of Colorado, three nieces Diedra and Denise Ross of Aurora , CO., and Kistina McZeak(Andrea McZeak, of Lubbock, TX., and one nephew Michael Falls of Westminister, CO.
She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, auntie, best friend who’s home was open to any child that needed a meal or a bed. She treated all children as if they were her own.
She enjoyed working with Bethel Memorial Garden Cemetery Committee and being a mother to all.
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