Leola I. McKinley was born on Monday, November 5, 1917 and passed away on Thursday, January 24, 2013, in Fort Dodge, Iowa and is now reunited with her husband Paul Foster McKinley who left us several years ago. Leola is survived by sisters Bethel Harrington and Wilma Ralston, two sons, Terry and Robert; five grandchildren, Christoper, Danita, Arron, Thomas and Kristina; and six great grandchildren: Chloe, Isaac, Bella, Caleb, Kieran and Madelyn.
Paul and Leola were devoted to each other, and to their ministry in Evangelical United Brethern and United Methodist Church churches. Paul aslo served for several yeas as Chaplin at the United methodist retirement campus, Friendship Village in Fort Dodge and later were residents and volunteers there, until Leola's passing.
We celebrated their lives on January 28, 2013 at a memorial servie at Friendship Village and on January 29, 2013 in Chariton, Iowa, where they lived for many years after they retired and where firneds and relatives reside today.
Leola will be interred next to Paul in a small cemetery outside Russell, Iowa, where Paul's father left farming to become an ordained pastor. God has surely prepared a place for them, and both have been eager to meet again.
Let us celebrate their reunion and the love of God they felt so deeply.
Visitation: 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, January 29, 2013 and Service follows at 10:30 a.m., at Fielding Funeral Homes, Chariton, IA. Interment: Russell Cemetery
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