MORGANTOWN, Ky. — Bonnie Darthula Marshall McKinney, 85, of Morgantown, departed this life Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018, after a year long battle with liver cancer at the Morgantown Care & Rehab. Bonnie was born Nov. 26, 1932, in Logan County, Kentucky, to the late George Barney Marshall and Melissa Bell Whitsett Burton Marshall and wife of the late David Tinsley Neighbors McKinney.
She was a longtime member of Mensa, earned a Associates Degree from WKU in Social Services, worked many years for Avon winning many Mrs. Albee awards, helped start the Literacy Council in Butler County in the 1980’s teaching many to read and she was named a Kentucky Colonel and added to MCRC Hall of Fame in 2017.
Bonnie loved books, puzzles, cryptograms, costume jewelry, her cats, classical music, her Sonny rose and to mess with people giving them a chuckle with her “stink” eye. She was a writer with an imagination out of this world.
Other than her parents and husband she is preceded in death by one son, David “Sonny” McKinney, in 2006; one daughter, Dianne McKinney, in 2012; and eight siblings, Daisy Marshall Lytle, Mabel Burton Young, Pauline Burton Davis, Haskell Marshall, Anges Marshall Butts, Katherine “Kit” Osborn, Henry “Sonny” Burton and Carl “Skeeter” Marshall.
Bonnie Darthula Marshall McKinney is survived by one daughter, Kathy McKinney Towe, of Gilstrap, Kentucky; two granddaughters, Rachel Towe, of Woodbury, Kentucky, and Becky McKinney West (Chris), of Gilstrap; three stepgreat-grandsons, Tyler, Austin and Matthew West; brother-in-law, Randall Lytle, of Beaver Dam, Kentucky; sister-in-law, Birthe Marshall, of Pioneer, California; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at the Jones Funeral Chapel Saturday, Nov. 3, at 1 p.m. with Bro. Derek Cain officiating. Private burial will be held in the McKinney Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Saturday Nov. 3, from 9 a.m. until funeral time at 1 p.m. at the Jones Funeral Chapel.
Memorial contributions may be made to Butler County Cancer Assistance P.O. Box 98 Aberdeen KY 42201
Please share any photos, memories, condolences or light a candle in memory of Bonnie at www.jonesfuneralchapel.com.
