Obituaries for May 8, 2008

May 08, 2008 05:17 pm

— Jason Brown
TYLER — Jason E. Brown completed his earthly journey the evening of April 27, 2008, in East Texas Medical Center in Tyler at the age of 36.
Jason began this journey Aug. 19, 1971, in Seguin. He grew up in Seguin and was a graduate of Seguin High School. His higher education was completed at East Texas State University in Commerce where he trained to be a teacher.
His art teaching career began in Arlington and he taught a one-year term at the Dawson Center in Dallas before coming to Dixie Elementary School in Tyler on Aug. 20, 2001.
As voiced by his colleagues, his art students considered him a hero, and his talents extended past his art class as he was always available to tutor students for TAKS, listen to them read and was always an encourager. His peers at Dixie nominated him for Teacher of the Year.
His family and many friends enjoyed his personal talents expressed as portraits, sketches and drawings in pastels; and he especially liked to do pictures with hundreds of dots making the picture.
Jason was a member of Green Acres Baptist Church and Oasis Sunday School Class. His funeral service was at 4 p.m., May 1, in the Green Acres Chapel, 1607 Troup Highway. Burial followed in Tyler Memorial Park on Highway 64 under the direction of Lloyd James Funeral Home of Tyler.
Pallbearers were Wayne Burt, Jack Anderson, Michael Anderson, Peter Kao, Chad Atchley and Roger Gardener. Honorary pallbearers were Cecil Taylor, Scott Bostik, Eric Cargel, Trey Paris, Frank Krauer and Clinton Sawyer. Dixie Elementary staff were seated in a special place of honor.
Jason is survived by his mother, Lou Brown of Tyler; a sister, Kim Brown of Flint, Texas; aunts Linda Anderson of Lindale and Carolyn Brown Burt of Commerce; loving cousins Peter, Sherie and Alec Kao of Richardson, Wayne, Shawn, Nathan and Jesse Burt of Commerce, Jack, Mary, Haylee, Kristen and Aubrey Anderson of Caddo Mills and Michael, Leeann, Blake, McKenna and Isabella Anderson of Royse City; a neighborhood of friends and especially his dear friend Chad Atchley.
He was preceded in death by his father, Charlie W. Brown Jr., and grandparents Mr. and Mrs. F.P. Rowe and Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Brown.
Memorials may be made to the Jason E. Brown Memorial Fund, 213 Patton Lane, Tyler, Texas 75704.
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Robert McKinney Jr.
Robert Edgar McKinney Jr., 55, of Lone Oak died in the mid morning hours of May 1, 2008, at the Presbyterian Hospital of Greenville. Mr. McKinney left this world to be with his Lord following a lengthy illness.
Robert was born in Dallas on July 25, 1952, son of Robert Edgar Sr. and Norris Jean McKinney; they both survive. Mr. McKinney was a veteran of the United States Air Force. In his later years, he spent his time serving people as a charter bus driver.
Mr. McKinney is survived by three children, DeAnn Nicole McKinney-Enis, Robert Edgar McKinney III and wife Dawn, all of Ocala, Fla., and Richard Thomas McKinney of Commerce; two brothers, James Thomas McKinney of Vallejo, Calif., and Richard Wayne McKinney of Bonham; three sisters, Elizabeth Ann Hedaria and husband Michael, of Pensacola, Fla., Virginia Lynn Jackson, and husband Rex of Greenville, and Charlotte Marie Van Ettinger, and husband Louie, of Salisbury Center, N.Y.; grandmother Jesse D. Wilson; four grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews, and other relatives.
Cremation services were under the arrangements of Peters Funeral Home. The family held a graveside service at DFW National Cemetery at 11 a.m. Monday.
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