Don D. McKean
Don D. McKean, 78, of Pilot Rock, died Saturday at the Johnathan M. Wainwright Memorial Veterans Administration Medical Center in Walla Walla.
Graveside funeral services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Skyview Memorial Park, Highway 395 south of Pendleton.
Mr. McKean was born Dec. 28, 1921, at Cainsville, Mo., to Guy Newton and I. Grace Alexander McKean. He was raised at Cainsville, and attended schools there.
During World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving in the Medical Corps. After the war he moved to Yakima, Wash., where he met Maxine L. Taylor. They were married Nov. 14, 1947, at Yakima, and in 1951, moved to Pilot Rock, where Mr. McKean worked for Kerns Company and U.S. Gypsum. He then went to work at Umatilla Army Ordnance Depot in 1963 and retired from Ordnance in 1977.
He loved deep sea fishing, hunting, and he and Dennis Jobes enjoyed playing Santa Claus for the children in Pilot Rock for years.
He was a member of Pendleton Post 922 Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a life member of Pendleton Elks Lodge 288.
Survivors include his wife, Maxine of Pilot Rock; sons, Don Jr., in Tennessee and Gary of Pilot Rock; daughters, Marylynn Elliott of Pilot Rock, Brenda Lieuallen and Theresa Linnebur, both of Pendleton; brothers, N.V. #Jack,# in Virginia, Ernest in Florida, and Robert in Mexico; sisters, Vera Henry in Missouri and Gladys Bougher in Florida; nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Burns Mortuary of Pendleton is in charge of arrangements.
East Oregonian 9/25/00