Michael Mckean

Michael McKean

Michael E. McKean of Rolla and Newtown, MO, died at his beloved farm near Newtown on August 22, 2009.
Mike was born in Chicago, IL, on September 21, 1935, and was raised in Bucks County, PA, and Isabel, SD. Mike was a medical editor in New York City and Philadelphia, PA, for many years. In the 1970’s, he, his wife Janet, and their three children – Summer, Andrew, and Hugh – moved to a family farm near Newtown, where they lived until 1985. At that time, Mike became technical editor at the University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology), a position he held until his retirement in 2004.
Mike is survived by his wife Janet, daughter Summer McKean-Kershner, husband John, and daughter Aria, of Albuquerque, NM; son Andrew McKean, wife Lih-An, and children Merlin, Ellis, and Iris, of Glasgow, MT; song Hugh McKean, wife Kristin, and children Hanna and Aiden, of Loveland, CO.
Mike is also survived by his sisters, Martha Bass, of Charlottesville, VA, and Sara Plunkett, of Charlotte, NC, and his half-brother, Kenneth McKean, of Ketchum, ID.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Kenneth McKean and Barbara Bush McKean, and by granddaughter Selje McKean.
The farm at Newtown was always an important part of Mike’s life, and he spent most of his retirement years there. He will be buried at Lucerne Cemetery on Saturday, August 29, at 2:00 p.m. Friends are welcome to join the family there. Memorials may be given to the Missouri Prairie Foundation or the Lucerne Cemetery and may be entrusted to Playle and Jones Family Funeral Home, 709 S. 27th St., Unionville, MO, 63565.