Buster Veigh Alva Kinney
1922 - 1958 (36 years)
Generation: 1
1. Buster Veigh Alva Kinney was born 10 Jan 1922, Pawhuska, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA; died 16 Feb 1958, New York City, New York County, New York, USA; was buried 21 Feb 1958, Sunset Memorial Gardens - Odessa, Texas, USA. Notes:
Obituary:
Funeral Rites Slated Today
Kermit - (Staff) - Services were slated for 2 p.m. Friday at the Berean Baptist Church here for Buster V. A. Kinney, 36-year-old former Odessan who died Sunday in New York City.
Rev. Clarence Smith, former pastor of the church, was to officiate. Burial was set for Odessa Cemetery under direction of the Hixson Funeral Home of Kermit.
Kinney was the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Kinney of Seagraves. He was born Jan. 10, 1922, at Pawhuska, Okla.
He moved to Odessa in 1927 and attended school here. During World War II he served in the Army.
He worked for Davidson Drilling Company in the Odessa area until Aug. 1, 1957, when he took a drilling job for Iran Oil Company in Tehran, Iran.
He became Ill last December and was transferred from Iran to New York.
He is survived by his widow, Marie; one son, Ronald Dean Kinney; two daughters, Donna Marie and Sandra Kay; his parents; one brother, Victor Kinney of Odessa, and two sisters, Betty Kinney of Seagraves and Mrs. Juanita Haskins of Oria, Tex.
(Published in The Odessa American on February 21, 1958)Buster married Marie Mattie High 1941. Marie (daughter of Bernice Homer High and Etta Rachel Mae Bryant) was born 30 Jan 1928, Seymour, Baylor County, Texas, USA; died 7 Feb 1991, Odessa, Ector County, Texas, USA; was buried 9 Feb 1991, Gaines County Cemetery - Seagraves, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet]
Children:- R.D. Kinney
- D.M. Kinney
- Sandra Kay Kinney was born 2 Jan 1953, Seagraves, Gaines County, Texas, USA; died 5 Sep 2009, Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA.