Keith David McGuire, Sr.

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Keith grew up in Trail, Oklahoma, across the river from Camargo. His family moved often while he was growing up He worked as a blacksmith and welder.

At the time of the 1930 Federal census, he was a Lodger in the home of Eulalie Fayard in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi. He was shown as Male, Single, born in Oklahoma with his parents born in Alabama and Kansas. Occupation was that of a Telephone Lineman.
(Source Citation: Bay Saint Louis, Hancock, Mississippi; Roll: 1146; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 0005; Image: 125.0; FHL microfilm: 2340881.)

Keith owned a 1940 Aeronca TL Trainer two place tandem seat air plane, in which he died after a crash on January 4, 1948. He had been assisting some local ranchers who were eradicating coyotes in the area. His son, Keith McGuire, Jr. recalls that his father "occasionally, and not for hire, would fly in areas where local farmers/ranchers that he knew were hunting Coyotes, and would serve as a spotter for those on the ground." Keith Jr was riding with hi s Dad in the plane that day until shortly before his Dad's death, which was just after noon, 12 PM.

Coyote Hunting using airplanes were accomplished by two means at that time. One was where a second person riding with the pilot would shoot coyotes while in the air from the airplane. The other was where Ranchers on horses using Greyhound Dogs to corner the coyotes would sometimes be assisted by a pilot in a plane serving as a spotter to designate where coyotes were by a maneuver , usually wagging the planes wings in flight when they flew over an area where they saw coyotes. Keith reported that his father did this strictly for the sport, and not for hire.

There was not enough room in the church for all the mourners at his funeral , which was typical for all funerals in small towns in that time era. Kenneth Carpenter was one the eight honorary pallbearers at Keith's funeral, there being six active pallbearers. Josephine and Kenneth were married some eight years after the funeral.

The funeral director was Mr. Shaw of Vici, Oklahoma.

Keith married Josephine Marguerite Morlas on 16 Jul 1930 in Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi. Josephine (daughter of John Dominic Morlas and Lucine Roquevert) was born on 13 Apr 1905 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana; died on 6 Sep 1983 in McAlester, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma; was buried in Camargo (Westside) Cemetery, Camargo, Dewey County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Keith David McGuire was born on January 30, 1932 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Josephine Marguerite Morlas and Keith David McGuire, Sr. His parents were residents of Camargo, Oklahoma, but Josephine returned to her hometown, to be with her mother and sisters, for the birth of her first child.

Growing up in Camargo, he worked with his father, who was a welder and blacksmith. Keith was just 16 when his father-an experienced pilot-died in a plane crash in 1948. That summer, Keith, his mother and sister Pat moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. They stayed there for the summer with the family of his Uncle, Elvis McGuire. While there, his mother took typing and shorthand classes to gain skills to help support her family. They later moved back to Camargo.

In May 1950, Keith graduated from Camargo High School. His graduating class included only 21 students, including his former high school girlfriend, Pearl Stephenson, senior class secretary, who was listed on the photo as Pearl Stephenson-Miller. Another classmate was Bob Moore, who Keith recalled that he met on their first day of first grade, was one of his closest friends throughout school, and one of only 4 classmates that attended school in Camargo with Keith for all 12 years. Bob later married a younger classmate, Mary Ann Hunt. Mary Ann was a lifelong friend of Keith's younger sister Pat, she and Pat were also in classes together for 12 years, and remained close friends throughout their adult lifes.

After graduating High School, Keith enlisted in the United States Air Force, in part to help support his mother and sister, as well as to build up funds for his own college education. He served at various bases in four states and was also stationed in Japan. After he completed his military service, he enrolled at the University of Oklahoma. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering.

He married Daisy Marie Newnam on September 14, 1957, in Chandler, Oklahoma, a year prior to his graduation. The first home he and Daisy shared was a four room apartment that she had been living in prior to their marriage, the lower unit of a garage apartment located at 2324 1/2 NW 33rd in Oklahoma City.

Keith was a lifelong fan of the Oklahoma Sooner football team. He spent his working career in the U.S. Civil Service as a Mechanical Engineer, moving his family throughout the southwest in service of his country.

An article published in the "Prarie Pilot" Big Spring, Texas (Vol. X-No.38, Friday, January 16, 1970), noted "The establishment of a new position within Civil Engineering Division has resulted in one promotion, and has brought a new face to Webb. Stepping into the new post of associate base civil engineer is Bill G. Mims, lifetime resident of Big Spring and formerly chief of CE's engineering and construction branch. Replacing Mr. Mims in that job is Keith McGuire, formerly of Clinton-Sherman AFB, Okla.........(the) new Engineer, Mr. McGuire, a native of Oklahoma, looks forward to liking this area and the friendly people Having come from a similar position at Clinton-Sherman, he sees no particular problem in adjusting to the job at Webb. In his position, he is responsible for development of engineering data to support the base military construction and maintenance programs, design work, master planning, construction inspection, and contract development. The only problem he anticipates would be in the transation from Strategy Air Command to ATC. Also a professional engineer, Mr. McGuire is registered in Oklahoma, having earned the bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma. He and his wife, Daisy have three children, Keith, 10, Scott, 8, and Julia, 6" (photo of Bill Mims and Keith McGuire was provided by A1C Bob Fainter, Air Force Photo).

Seven years later, an article in the "The McANAD News," McAlester Oklahoma, Vol. 31, No. 16, dated 26 August 1977 (published by the U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot) noted that Keith recently replaced Mr. Tom Stark as Engineering Resources Management Division Chief, coming from Webb AFB, Big Spring, Texas, where he had held the position of Engineering and Construction Management Branch Chief. The article noted that Keith and Daisy had one son enrolled at the University of Texas, majoring in Music, and two children enrolled in McAlester High School in McAlester.

Keith was also an enthusiastic family genealogist and corresponded with cousins about family for many years, and spent much time researching their mutual ancestors.

Keith spent his retirement years in Bailey, Colorado, where he loved spending time outdoors with his dogs.

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BAILEY, COLORADO - Keith D. McGuire, Jr. a long time resident of Bailey, Colorado passed away Friday, November 27, 2020 in Fort Worth, Texas at the age of 88.

Keith was born January 30, 1932 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Keith David McGuire, Sr. and Josephine Marguerite Morlas McGuire. Keith married Daisy Marie Newnam on September 14, 1957, and they were married 28 years until her death.

He graduated from Camargo Oklahoma High School in 1950 and in July of that same year he enlisted in the United States Air Force. He faithfully served his country during the Korean War and completed his military service in July 1954. After his military service he attended The University of Oklahoma and in 1958 he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering.

He was a lifelong fan of the Oklahoma Sooner football team. He worked in numerous states as a mechanical engineer for the United States Civil Service. He enjoyed flying small aircraft. He not only had his commercial pilot license, but was also a pilot instructor. After retiring to Colorado, he enjoyed snow skiing with his kids, the outdoors and walking his dogs. He was an enthusiastic family genealogist and corresponded with cousins about family for many years.

He was preceded in death by his wife Daisy McGuire, parents and a sister, Patricia McGuire Strong.

SURVIVORS: Son, Keith D. McGuire, III and wife, Cindy Coleman; son, Clayton Scott McGuire; daughter, Julia L. Phillips and husband, Todd and numerous grandkids, nephews, nieces and cousins.

Downloaded from the Brown, Owens & Brumley Family Funeral Home & Crematory.

Keith married Daisy Marie Newnam on 14 Sep 1957 in Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma. Daisy was born on 21 Sep 1934 in Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma; died on 2 Oct 1985 in McAlester, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma; was buried in New Zion Cemetery, Chandler, Lincoln County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Pat grew up in the small town of Camargo, Oklahoma. Even though her mother was Catholic, she and her brother attended Sunday school at the First Christian Church since there was no Catholic Church in town. She remembers spending some time one summer, along with her brother, living with a priest and his mother in a nearby town learning enough catechism to receive her first communion.

Pat and Charles raised their children in the Catholic church, and most attended parochial schools, at least in elementary school. They respected their childrens views, however, and allowed those who did not want to go through confirmation to make that choice. After their children were grown, they grew disenchanted with religion, and embraced a humanist philosophy.

She was called Patsy by her parents when she was young. and Pat as an adult. When her eldest grandson, Charles Joseph, was first beginning to talk, in 1983, he had trouble saying the word "Grandma".....instead calling Pat by the name "Munga." All her grandchildren and the rest of her family began to use that name as well, and she was known as Munga to her family and loved ones for the next 35 years.

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Patricia "Pat" Marion McGuire Strong, a resident of Edinburg, Texas for over 40 years, was born on October 30, 1933 in Camargo, Oklahoma, a small farming and ranching community near the Oklahoma panhandle. She was an excellent student with many friends, active in 4-H, and played on her high school basketball team. She died March 16, 2018 in her home, surrounded by people she loved.

When Pat was 14, her beloved father, Keith David McGuire, Sr., an experienced pilot, died when the two-seat airplane he was piloting crashed.

Pat was very proud of her mother, Josephine Marguerite (Morlas) McGuire, a native of New Orleans, who rose to the formidable challenge of raising and educating Pat and her elder brother Keith as a single parent during the 1940's. Even though Josephine had not worked outside the home before, it became necessary after her husband's death. Being widowed at age 42, she had only the proceeds from the sale of her husband's welding shop, and a small inheritance from her mother, to help support her family. Josephine and her children moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama and lived briefly with Pat's Uncle Elvis McGuire, allowing Josephine to take typing and shorthand courses to prepare herself to enter the workforce. When she finished with her coursework, they moved back to Camargo and she held several different jobs over the years, many simultaneously: a newspaper clerk and social columnist, a department store saleslady, a census enumerator, and most often was employed as a waitress at restaurants and coffee shops.

The main motivation for returning to Camargo was to allow Pat, and her brother Keith to complete High School in their home town. Pat graduated in 1951 as the salutatorian of her class.

After her graduation, Pat and her mother moved to Weatherford, Oklahoma, where Pat enrolled in Southwestern State College with her mother as her roommate. Both she and her mother worked while Pat was in college to cover their daily needs, as well as the cost of college attendance. Her brother Keith, an U.S. Air Force enlistee, also contributed to their support. Pat graduated Magna Cum Laude with her Bachelor of Science in Education in 1954.

From 1954 to 1956 Pat taught High School in Mooreland, Oklahoma, where she and her mother continued to share a home. After her mother remarried Kenneth Carpenter (a friend and pallbearer at her late husband's funeral), Pat pursued and earned a Master of Science degree in Business Education from Oklahoma State University. There she met, at a Newman Club dance, fellow student and her future husband, Charles Richard Strong of Duncan, Oklahoma, and citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. It was love at first kiss! They married in Stillwater on May 25, 1957. Pat graduated from O.S.U. in May 1958, two months prior to the birth of her eldest child.

Over the first ten years of their marriage, Pat and Charles had seven children, (in order of birth), Thomas Anthony, Mary Patricia, John David, Laura Ann, Karl Joseph, Paul Stephen and Anne Marie. They moved even more times than they had children. They lived and worked in Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, while Charles taught at various colleges while completing his Ph.D. in Business Management at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
While busy raising her large family, Pat worked part time as an instructor in the Business Education Department at Mississippi State College for Women and assisted as proofreader and typist for her husband's doctoral dissertation. In May 1973, Charles, who was also a practicing C.P.A., was offered a position in the Accounting Department at Pan American University in Edinburg.

When her youngest daughter began school, Pat began to teach full time in McAllen, Texas, instructing her students in the subjects of English, Typing, and Shorthand. She taught 20 years before her retirement in 1994.

Pat is preceded in death by both parents, her stepfather, and four sisters-in-law: Daisy Newnam McGuire, Theresa Strong Rutledge, Betty Wehunt Strong, and Caroline Strong Brasher.

She is survived by her husband of over sixty years, Charles; four sons Tom (Melinda)-San Antonio, John (Isabel)-McAllen, Karl (Deirdre)-Boerne, Paul (Sherry)-Houston; three daughters, Laura (Ken Solomon)-Helotes, Mary Pat and Annie, both of Edinburg; twelve grandchildren, Charles Joseph (Pratistha) Strong-Jefferson City, MO.; J.H.T. "Tommy" Strong-Long Beach, CA; Michael Strong-San Antonio; Elizabeth Strong-Corpus Christi; Charles Richard Strong-Boerne; David Strong-San Antonio; William "Billy" Strong-Austin; Jacobo (Yamilet) Strong-McAllen; Katelyn Solomon-San Antonio; Joseph Strong-Boerne; Christian "Che" Strong-San Antonio; and Hannah Solomon-Helotes; three great grandchildren, Maya Strong (age 5), J. D. Alvarez (age 3), and Mateo Strong (8 months); her brother Keith David McGuire, Jr.-Bailey, Colorado; brothers-in-law, Bill Strong-Harlingen, TX; John (Brenda) Strong-Duncan, OK; Tom (Vickie) Strong-Laveen, AZ and Paul "P.D." (Jane) Strong-Duncan, OK; 18 nieces and nephews and their spouses and children; several first cousins from the Morlas family of New Orleans to whom she was particularly close, including Vivian Solares of Harahan, LA; former students; and dear friend and fellow teacher, Earlene Burney of Clarksville, Tennessee.

She was known for her love of her family, which is her proudest accomplishment, her quick wit, and her quiet intelligence. She was an ardent fan of the San Antonio Spurs. She adhered to and demonstrated the Humanist philosophy through her constant empathy and kindness to others, regardless of who a person might be.

She was also very proud that three of her children, one daughter-in-law, and four grandchildren have thus far followed her and her husband into the profession of teaching.

The family wishes especially thank Pat's special caretakers (Mary Pat Strong, Veronica Rosales, and Lilliana Herrera) for all they have done.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made to the Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley, P.O. Box 6251, McAllen, TX 78502; Comfort House Services, 617 Dallas Ave, McAllen, TX 78501; or the Rio Grande, or your local, Habitat for Humanity.

Cremation will be handled by Memorial Funeral Home, Edinburg. Interment will be in the McGuire family plot at the Camargo (Westside) Cemetery, where her family will gather this summer to share memories and oversee her interment.

Slightly modified versions of this obituary were published, either in print and/or online, in the following periodicals:

New Orleans (LA) Time Picayune
Woodward (OK) News
Duncan (OK) Banner
Chickasaw (OK) Times
San Antonio (TX) Express News
McAllen (TX) Monitor

The following tribute was posted, without a name attached, in her guestbook on the online version of the Woodward, OK obituary.

"My sincere sympathy is extended to Patricia's family. I fondly remember her as Ms. McGuire and as faculty sponsor of my 1955 MHS Senior class. My class was honored when she attended our 50th reunion. She inspired all of us to achieve beyond our capabilities and was always interested in helping us make good decisions. Speaking for the rest of my surviving class of '55 and as their President, we will all miss her and thank her family for allowing us the privilege of having time with this great person.."

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An mtDNA sample supplies by her oldest son, Tom Strong, was analyzed by FamilyTreeDNA in Houston. Their analysis showed the following Haplogroup assignment, along with the following differences from the Cambridge Reference Sequence.

HVR1 Haplogroup
K
HVR1 differences
from CRS
16224C
16519C

The mitochondrial super-haplogroup U encompasses haplogroups U1-U7 and haplogroup K. Haplogroup K is found through Europe, and contains multiple closely related lineages indicating a recent population expansion. The origin of haplogroup K dates to approximately 16,000 years ago, and it has been suggested that individuals with this haplogroup took part in the pre-Neolithic expansion following the Last Glacial Maximum. William Hurst, on his Haplogroup K Website, writes that "Katrine," the founding mother of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup K, was one of the "Seven Daughters of Eve" as listed in the 2001 book of that title by Bryan Sykes. A lot of happened since 2001, but the book is still valuable.

Katrine lived about 16,000 years ago. Perhaps the oldest known K descendant was Oetzi the Iceman whose frozen body was discovered in the Alps in 1991. Estimated at 5000 years old, the Iceman proved to have the basic mutations for a K: 16224C and 16320C. Every K is a cousin of Oetzi.

Patricia married Charles Richard Strong on 25 May 1957 in Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma. Charles (son of Homer Richard Strong and Anna Laura Payne) was born on 24 Aug 1932 in Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma; died on 21 Oct 2021 in McAllen, Hidalgo County, Texas; was buried in Camargo (Westside) Cemetery, Camargo, Dewey County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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