Lillian McKinney Obituary

McKinney
LILLIAN A. MCKINNEY
February 18, 1931 March 23, 2021
Lil passed away peacefully; at the home she shared with her husband Jack at her side. She was born February 18, 1931 in Mount Morris, Michigan to her Swiss immigrant parents Gustav & Elise Richner. She grew up in Flint & Port Austin Michigan where she graduated from Port Austin High School. Lil married her husband Jack in Port Austin on June 5, 1954, and spent 66 years together. She is survived by Jack, her three sons, Dennis (Cornelia), Douglas (Karen), and Robert (Brenda). Her five grandchildren Corinne Powers (Loren), Jaclyn McKinney (Joe), Jayme Broadnax (Matt), Kelsey McKinney, and Trevor McKinney, 3 great grandchildren, Precious, Aria, and Cassius Broadnax, as well as many nieces and nephews. She was proceeded in death by her parents, her sister Ruth, her brother Walt, and 2 daughters Debra and Donna.
As an Air Force spouse, she lived in West Virginia, Fairbanks and Anchorage Alaska, Grand Forks, North Dakota, Battle Creek, Michigan and Colorado Springs. Jack and Lil also lived in Norfolk Virginia, Manhattan Kansas and Lake of the Ozarks Missouri, finally settling in Colorado Springs for the last 27 years.
Lil was a homemaker, who loved to bake and worked part-time for AAFES in Alaska, and Widefield School District 3 in Colorado Springs.
She was a loving wife, mother, grandma, Mema, great grandmother and aunt who will be missed by friends and family.
A memorial service is being planned for sometime in the summer with inurnment at Pikes Peak National Cemetery. Donations may be made in her name to https://www.diabetes.org/donate/donate-memorial