Ellouise McKinney
Dr. T.E. & E.E. McKinney

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Van Alstyne Leader

Ellouise McKinney
Miss Ellouise McKinney, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. T.E. McKinney, of Gordonville, died in a hospital at Wichita Falls, Saturday, October 29, after an illness of several months.  The body was brought to Van Alstyne Sunday, and funeral services, conducted by the Rev. J.W. Slagle, pastor of the Methodist church and the Rev. E.D. Henson, pastor of the Christian church here, were held at the Methodist church at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.  Burial was made in the Van Alstyne cemetery.
Miss McKinney was graduated from the Whitesboro high school and attended a business school at Sherman.  Immediately following her completion of the business course, she entered the business world, and at the time she was stricken with the fatal illness she was an employee of a bank at Iowa Park.
Fifty or sixty people from Gordonville and many other friends and relatives attended the funeral service.
She was a niece of colonel Turner Leslie of this city, and had a number of other relatives here.
Besides her father and mother, she is survived by her grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. J.N. 
McKinney of Collinsville.

Van Alstyne Leader
25 November 1926

ELLOUISE McKINNEY

Miss Ellouise McKinney, granddaughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. N. McKinney of Collinsville and daughter of Dr. T. E. McKinney of Gordonville departed from this world into the hands of her maker Saturday, Oct. 28, at twelve o'clock.  She was twenty-two years of age, just in the bloom of womanhood and fully prepared for a successful future.  The reason for the untimely going of this beautiful, Christian girl is not known to this world but that part of it matters not because from every indication she was anxious and ready to meet her God.  In the latter days, while upon the bed of affliction she stated that she was just as sure of Heaven as there is a certainty and that she had rather go than stay.

She was a true, life time Methodist who was baptized in infancy and thereafter joined the church and lived the remainder of her life in faithful service for the Maker.

We loved ones lack the words to express our infinite love for Ellouise and for this reason we mourn her going because we will miss her on earth but we have the scriptural consolation that if we live the Christly life that she did, we will verily and surely meet her in that eternal city whose builder and maker is God and where there is no parting of those who love him and rejoice upon his calling.

Won't that be a happy meeting?

This live is sweet but Ellouise has gone on to a life that is far more sweeter and precious and eternal in a happy inexpressible in words.

The funeral service was held at the Methodist church of Van Alstyne where practically a generation of McKinneys, together with hordes of loved ones assembled to pay the last tribute of respect to Ellouise on this earth and to receive as reassured consolation that she was gone to that beautiful home of the soul where time has no limits.  Two Methodist ministers, a Christian minister and J. D. L. McKinney had charge of the funeral service after which the body was laid to rest in the Van Alstyne cemetery.

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