Leona (Brown) McKee (1920-2008)
MCKEE, BROWN, GILLISON, PETRONE, HALL, BEST, WEIGEL, JOHNSON, BUCK, BISKNER, BELL, REINSCH
Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 4/26/2008 at 07:28:35
THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Saturday, April 26, 2008.
Leona (Brown) McKee, 87, of Ames, died Friday, April 25. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 29, at Stevens Memorial Chapel in Ames. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, April 28, also at Stevens Memorial Chapel.
THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Sunday, April 27, 2008.
Nov. 13, 1920-April 25, 2008
Leona (Brown) McKee, 87, of Ames, entered into eternal rest Friday, April 25, at Israel Family Hospice House. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 29, at Stevens Memorial Chapel in Ames, with Pastor David Staff officiating. Burial will follow in Ames Municipal Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, April 28, at Stevens Memorial Chapel.
Leona was born Nov. 13, 1920, at home in Fairfield, Ill., to Mary Edna (Gillison) and Joseph Milton Brown. She moved to Gilbert at the age of 9 and attended Gilbert Community School. She married Walter (Ray) McKee Dec. 3, 1940. During World War II, she was employed at Collegiate Manufacturing in Ames sewing raincoats for the soldiers.
In addition to being a farm wife, when her brother Jim opened Brown's DX Service Station at the corner of Gilbert and U.S. Highway 69, she was the cook at the restaurant, and later when Jim opened Jim's Skelly Station in Story City, she cooked there for many years. In 1971, she became head cook at Maple-Willow-Larch residence association at Iowa State University, retiring in 1992. She taught Sunday school at Gilbert Congregational Church for 10 years, started the first Brownie Scout Troop in Gilbert, was an avid seamstress and was best known for her wonderful chocolate chip cookies. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
She is survived by one son, Robert (Karen) McKee, of Owasso, Okla.; three daughters, Sharon (Ken) Petrone, of Wellman, Connie (Kells) Hall, of Ames, and Peggy (Bill) Best, of Ames; one sister, Rachel (Roger) Weigel, of Laurie, Mo.; four sisters-in-law, Pauline (Jim) Brown, of Macon, Mo., Helen (Dale) Brown, of Ames, Elaine (Earl) Brown, of Ames, and Alice (Mel) Johnson, of Sibley; four grandchildren, Sherry (Jack) Buck, of Garland, Texas, Brian McKee, of Chicago, Beau Biskner, of Denver, Colo., and Ali (Larry) Bell, of Lynchburg, Va.; four great-grandchildren, Lukas, Lynzee and Jake Buck, of Garland, Texas, and Josiah Bell, of Lynchburg, Va.; and a multitude of nieces and nephews who loved her very much.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ray, in 2002; five brothers, James Brown, Eldon Brown, Glen Brown, Dale Brown and Earl Brown; one sister, Alice (Dale) Reinsch; and an infant grandson, Stephen McKee.
Memorials may be directed to the Gilbert Education Foundation.
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