© Fairview Funeral Home

December 06, 1943 - August 31, 2018

Funeral services for Karen Sue McKinney, 74, of Cleo Springs, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at the Fairview Church of the Nazarene. Pastor Jim Burggraf will officiate. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery. Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home, Inc.

Karen Sue was born December 6, 1943 in Cleo Springs, Oklahoma to parents, George A. and Lola Irene (Hoskins) Frickel. Karen grew up in Major County and graduated from Cleo Springs High School with the Class of 1962. She attended Bethany Nazarene College which is now known as Southern Nazarene University and received a BA in Elementary Education.

She married the love of her life, Charles (Chuck) McKinney on August 6, 1966. The couple made their first home in Bethany, Oklahoma. Karen began teaching at Will Rogers Elementary School while Chuck finished college and worked. Karen followed Chuck to his first pastorate in Richland, Oklahoma. They pastored there until 1974 when they moved to Fairview to pastor Fairview Church of the Nazarene. They were blessed with two wonderful children, Greg and Marla. Karen was the epitome of a pastor’s wife, standing alongside her husband, ministering to the needs of the church family.

Karen taught third grade for 39 years at Cornelsen Elementary School in Fairview. Anyone who knows Karen knows that she was organized, efficient and tidy. These skills served her well as a pastor’s wife and certainly as a teacher. She made numerous friends while teaching in Fairview and they are sure to tell you of her quick wit and fun sense of humor. Through the years Karen and her teacher friends have made more Tin Can Stilts than you can count, take you through the Alabaster Caverns and give the tour better than the tour guides, melted crayons to make Christmas sand candles and made more craft projects with pine cones and glitter than you can imagine. Students remember her fondly, as a stern but loving woman who pushed them to learn at their highest potential.

Left to cherish her memory are: her beloved husband Chuck of the home, son, Greg McKinney of Cleo Springs, OK and his daughters, Taylor and Devon, daughter, Marla McKinney of Union City, OK and her daughter Krislyn, one brother, George and Donna Frickel and one sister Mona and Carl Kehn.

She was preceded in death by her parents and brother, Jerry Lee Frickel.

Memorials can be made to the Cleo Springs Church of the Nazarene (Scholarship Fund) with the funeral home acting as custodian.

To watch the funeral live on Facebook you must first contact Ashley Nicole Chance on Facebook to be placed on the list for the church.

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