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© Enid News and Eagle
03-1989
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Thank You For Your Service!

Joseph McKinley Jr.

August 22, 1919 ~ March  21, 1989

Alva - The funeral for Joseph McKinley Jr., 69, who died Tuesday at his home in Alva, will be at 10 AM Thursday at Wharton Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Rick Stout, pastor of Alva Bible Baptist Church, officiating.

Graveside service will be at 2 PM Friday in Amity Cemetery at Milford, Illinois.

He was born August 22, 1919, in Milford, Illinois, where he attended school and worked in the canning factory and did farm work. He was a veteran of World War I I, serving with the U. S. Army at in the Alva prisoner of war camp. On February 24, 1945, he married Dorothy Icke in Alva where they lived until 1947 when they moved to Milford. He worked on a farm, returning to Alva in 1949. In 1951, they moved to Woodland, Illinois, and he worked on a dairy farm, returning to Alva in 1952. He then worked in construction.

Surviving are two daughters, Loretta Hoffman of Guthrie and Betty Fields of Perry; four sons, Clyde of Longdale, Albert, Harold and Howard, all of Alva; three sisters, Mary Hillyer of Essex, Illinois, Rose Martin of Watseka, Illinois, and Opal Baker of Florence, Colorado; two brothers, Chet of Fairbury, Illinois, and Ira of Milford; and 11 grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by two sisters and two brothers.

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