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Articles Oil
Field Humor 6-14-05
Who says that oil, wool—and sheep manure don’t
mix?Frank
Yount, Godfather of Beaumont 9-25-04 |
Fred B. McKinley is a descendant of Revolutionary War, War of 1812, War for
Texas Independence and Confederate soldiers, a Texas Ranger, and whose father
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He embarked on a long and distinguished
career in the credit industry and retired with the Louisiana Department of Justice,
where he served as a supervisory criminal investigator with the Attorney General’s
office. A native of Beaumont, Texas, McKinley graduated from Lamar State College
of Technology (1964) and Lamar University (1987). He attended Louisiana State
University (1995), where he received a law enforcement certification. Co-author
of one book titled Black Gold to Bluegrass: From the Oil Fields of Texas to
Spindletop Farm of Kentucky (Austin: Eakin Press, 2005), and author of CHINQUA
WHERE? The Spirit of Rural America, 1947-1955 (North Myrtle Beach: Willow
Creek, 2003), McKinley has also contributed articles to The Texas Gulf Historical
and Biographical Record, published in Beaumont, Texas; and to the national
magazines of Country and Country Extra, both published by the Reiman
Group in Greendale, Wisconsin. He is the father of three children, grandfather
of three, and lives with his wife Dottie in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. |
