William McKinley & Jennie May (Gallup) Crosswhite
Cemetery Photo
Hennessey, Lyon Valley Cemetery, Kingfisher County, OK

©George and Kellee Jones

Obit of Jennie posted by Ann Weber
 

Enid Morning News    April 26 1996 JENNIE MAY GALLUP CROSSWHITE Funeral service for Jennie May Gallup Crosswhite, 97, will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 27, 1996 at Union Chapel Church, officiated by Pastor Bill Kious and Pastor L. R. Babcock. Burial will be at Lyon Valley Cemetery directed by Cordry-Sisson Funeral Home, Hennessey. Jennie May was born August 3, 1898, to William Albert and Ethel Evelyn Mclendy Gallup, near Pleasanton, KS and died Wednesday, April 24, 1996 at Hennessey Care Center. The family later moved to Southeast of Hennessey, OK where she attended the Surprise School and the Tintop Church where she was baptized. She attended High School in Hennessey and the Normal School of Alva, OK. She taught two years in country schools, in Beaver  County, OK. She married William McKinley Crosswhite, on November 16, 1918 in Kingfisher, OK. They lived in a sod house in Beaver County while she finished her school contract. They then moved back to their farm east of Hennessey, where they farmed and raised their family in the Union Chapel Church Community. To this union three children were born: Dwaine, Olen Dale and Lois. She was a member of the Union Chapel Church, taught Sunday School and played the piano. She was a devoted Christian wife, mother, grandmother and neighbor. After the death of her husband, McKinley, she moved to Hennessey in 1968 and to the Hennessey Care Center in 1991. She leaves to mourn her passing, one daughter, Lois and husband, Robert Austin of South Haven, KS; six grandchildren and spouses; Rodney and Kaye Crosswhite of Geary, OK, Jenae and Rick Swart and Leon and Trish Crosswhite of Hennessey, Kenney and Phyllis Crosswhite of Enid, Cindy and Rick Ball and Clint and Tracy Austin of Arkansas City, KS; 15 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren; two brothers and their wives: Hollis and Flossie Gallup of Stratford, OK and Albert and Jean Gallup of San Antonio, TX; and a host of other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, McKinley on December 17, 1966; two sons: Olen Dale in 1934 and Dwaine in 1980, and his wife, Winona in 1983; granddaughter, Naomi Lorie Crosswhite in 1976, her parents; two sisters: Rebecca Miller and Ethel Crosswhite. Memorials may be made to Union Chapel Church or the Hennessey Care Center.  (4-26-1)