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Services To Be Held Friday For Jim McKay

Funeral services will be held on Friday, April 17, at 2 p.m., at First Lutheran church for James Lee McKay, 40, who died April 13, 1981, at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha.

Rev. Kurt Sortland and Rev. Robert Hansen will conduct the services. Cremation will follow the funeral service.

James Lee McKay was born May 4, 1940, at Farmington, Minnesota, to Loyd and Martha Moody McKay. He graduated from Farmington High School and attended Dana College.

On August 13, 1960, he married Ruth Brosseth in Farmington. In 1962 they moved to Blair, where he worked for the City of Blair as a lineman.

He later began work for Western Electric and worked for them for 15 years, including a two year period during which he worked for the company in the Kwajalein Islands. He was a Quality Assurance checker with the company.

He ran the softball program in Blair for many years. He had been an Umpire-in-Chief for the Omaha Softball Association for five years and had umpired in five National Softball Tournaments. He also officiated for football and basketball.

He is survived by his wife, Ruth McKay, of Blair; and two daughters, Kristine (Kristy) McKay and Kimberly (Kim) McKay, both of Blair. His mother, Martha McKay, of Farmington, Minnesota; three sisters, Jacqueline Schlauderaff, Farmington, Minnesota, Marlene Balck, Danville, California, and Judith McCool, Des Moines, Iowa; and two brothers, Robert McKay, Farmington, Minnesota, and Ronald McKay, Minneapolis, Minnesota, also survive him.

Pallbearers will be Robert Stegmeier, Roger Petersen, John Maxwell, Gary Baker, Floyd Price and Larry Anker.

Campbell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements for the services.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~