Mrs. McKee departed this life, Sunday, January 6, 2013 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.
The widow of Pete McKee, who died on December 3, 1992, after forty years of marriage, she was a retired production worker with Harman International. She was born February 14, 1927, in McNairy County, daughter of the late Floyd and Allie King Thearp and lived all of her life in Bolivar and Hardeman County. Mrs. McKee enjoyed working and had also worked at a bakery, a food processing plant, a garment factory and for the Kilgore Corporation. She loved gardening and growing flowers and was a Baptist in belief.
Survivors include two daughters and their husbands, Patsy and Paul King of Middleton, Diane and Randy Smith of Nashville; three sisters, Geneial Ervin of Bolivar, Jeanette Wiloughby of Toone and Bryndal Sipes of Jackson; two brothers, Gene and Robert Thearp, both of Bolivar; 5 grandchildren, 8 great grandchildren and 7 great great grandchildren. In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Jimmy Thearp.