James Arthur McKee (1942)

MCKEE

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 4/22/2007 at 15:47:54

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
May 6, 1942

JAMES MCKEE, AGED 5, DIES IN CALIFORNIA

Boy Was Son of Mr. and Mrs. Clive McKee, Recently of Macksburg

Mr. and Mrs. Frank McKee of Madison township have received word of the death of their grandson, James Arthur, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clive McKee of Richmond, Cal. The little boy had been ill with the measles, and pneumonia developed, causing his death. Funeral and burial services were held there Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. McKee had lived on a farm near Macksburg until January 1942, when they moved to California, where Mr. McKee is employed in a ship yard. James Artur is survived by his parents and two sisters, Janet and Joan McKee, his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank McKee and other distant relatives.

(Note: Headline & obituary disagree on the age)