Officials with MSU-West Plains’ Ozarks Heritage Research Center will host a presentation on “From Archives to Ancestry: Navigating Genealogical Resources” presented by Texas County native Blanche McKinney at 6 p.m. Oct. 14 at Garnett Library.
Refreshments will be provided.
For 50 years, McKinney taught in various high schools, including Houston, and colleges in the Ozarks. She was also a library director, sold World Books and assisted her late husband, Ed, in running a music and antique store at Yukon.
McKinney is a genealogy enthusiast and along with Ed she published a book in 1985, “Five Generations of Henry McKinney’s Descendants in Texas County, Missouri.” They revised and updated the book over the last 30 years, and shortly after Ed’s death, she published the new edition, “Five Generations of Descendants of Henry McKinney” in late 2021.
She is an active member of the Ozark Spring Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution. She is also an active member of Xi Chapter, Delta Kappa Gamma.
Hi! I’m wondering if Blanche has a sister named Opal and if they were my teachers in Raymondville in the 70s