Partheina McKee

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

Corporation. 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. She also had worked for a bakery, a food processing plant, a

garment factory, and for the Kilgore Corporation. During her life, she enjoyed

working and loved gardening and growing flowers. Mrs. McKee was a Baptist in

belief.



Survivors include two daughters and their husbands, Patsy King (Paul) of

Middleton and Diane Smith (Randy) of Nashville; three sisters, Genele 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.