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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1948
Page
5
Amarillo city officers across departments take oaths to uphold the U S Constitution and federal and state laws. The roster lists officers hired from 1941 to 1948 with ages, education, veterans status, prior work, and current roles including detectives, warrant officers, traffic patrol, parking meter service, and desk sergeant.
Funeral plans for Mr. McKnight call for a simple service without flowers. Family requests donations to his favorite charity or the Boy Scouts. Surviving include widow Alice, daughter Mrs. W. M. Wright of Scar dale NY, son Jim, and five grandchildren. Burial at Lino Cemetery after a service at First Christian Church. He died of heart attack yesterday at 2016 Monroe.
Fort Worth couple Raymond Spence and his wife Inez Gilliland Spence have been approved as Baptist missionaries and will work in Japan after language study. They will train for a year at Yale or in Japan before entering active service. Mrs Spence is sister of Mrs Lester Dunn of 104 McMasters and formerly taught nursing arts at Northwest Texas Hospital School of Nursing. Mr Spence is brother to Jack Spence, a local grocer. Only about seven per cent of US farm households are headed by women.
Four weeks earlier he was confined to bed and after a second stroke yesterday, Mr. McKnight, a longtime businessman and civic leader, died. Arriving in the Panhandle in 1902 he built a lasting legacy with McKnight Transfer, a Livery, and later The McKnight Company. He shaped Amarillo’s government, planning, and charitable efforts, including Rotary, Red Cross, and Boy Scouts, while also becoming a noted painter in retirement.
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