Joe McKee Dies in Dallas Thursday, Services Saturday Joe McKee, 84, of Celeste, died at 9:20 AM Thursday, October 14, 1965, in Baylor Hospital in Dallas. He had been in ill heath for three years. Services will be held at 2:30 PM Saturday, October 16, 1965, at the Church of Christ in Celeste. Officiating will be T. S. Teddlie of Greenville, Connie Hollis, local minister, and Bruce Prior of Boles Home. Burial will be in the Celeste Cemetery under direction of Coker-Mathew-Peters Funeral Home of Greenville. Pallbearers will be Glenn Hall, Byird Glasscoe, Ralph Evans, Frank Milton, Ernest Roach, and S. W. Myers. Honorary pallbearers have been named as Homer Wacasey, Bloom Johnson, G. C. Harris, Mickey Money, E. H. Blankenship, Tom Mulkey, S. R. Granberry, Albert Granberry, George McGee, Troy Brooks, Clarence Slayden, Burley Lanier, T. L. Brooks, and R. C. Gilliam. Mr. McKee, a retired farmer, who also managed a gin in Celeste years ago, was born January 13, 1881, in Humbolt, Tennessee, son of Robert McKee and Mary Mason McKee. Before he moved to Hunt County fifty years ago, he lived in Lamar County, near Paris. He was an active member of the Church of Christ. Mr. McKee was married to Effie Lee Williams on January 5, 1903, and she survives. He is survived also by one son, J. Wilburn McKee of Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. Lillian Pinkston of Dallas, Mr. C. E. Lewis of Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, and Miss Mary Frances McKee of Dallas; one brother, Bud McKee of Greenville; two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Nelson of Dallas and Mrs. Myrtle Skeen of Bonham; five grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Lelian McKee Bickham, also two children who died in infancy, and two grandchildren. (October 15, 1965, The Celeste Courier)