Extracted from The Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX)
Wednesday, April 15, 1998

James Carroll McKinney

FORT WORTH -- James Carroll McKinney, 77, an acclaimed bass soloist, dean emeritus of the school of church music and distinguished professor emeritus of voice at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, died Sunday, April 12, 1998, at his home after a brief illness.

Funeral: 2 p.m. Thursday in Truett Auditorium of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Russell Dilday, Dr. Robert Naylor, Dr. Albert Travis, Dr. Mark Waters and Dr. Robert Burton will officiate. Burial: Laurel Land Memorial Park. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Thompson's Harveson & Cole Funeral Home, where the family will be present. He will lie in state 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday in the Rotunda of Cowden Hall on the seminary campus, where the family will receive guests from 10 a.m. to noon.

Pallbearers: C.L. Bass, Jack Coldiron, William Colson, Scotty Gray, Joseph King, Michael Melek, David Music and William Reynolds.

Memorials: James McKinney, National Association of Teachers of Singing, Intern Program Fund, NATS, 2800 University Blvd., J.U. Station, Jacksonville, Fla. 32211; James C. McKinney Ensemble Scholarship Fund - Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Box 22000, Fort Worth, Texas 76122; Western Hills Baptist Church Music Program, 8500 Chapin Road, Fort Worth, Texas 76116; or American Cancer Society, 3301 West Freeway, Fort Worth, Texas 76107.

Dr. James C. McKinney was born Jan. 11, 1921, in Minden, La.

Internationally recognized, he was a faculty member of the First International Conference of Voice Teachers in Strasbourg, France.

Locally he had been on the boards of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Fort Worth Opera and Fort Worth Symphony. He had been president of the Texas Association of Music Schools, the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference, the Fort Worth Voice Teachers Forum and the Fort Worth Music Teachers Association.

Dr. McKinney received numerous awards and was named to the prestigious American Academy of Teachers of Singing, which has only 40 members.

Survivors: His wife of 49 years, Elizabeth Richmond McKinney; sons, James Carroll McKinney Jr. and his wife, Michele Stephens McKinney, and Timothy Richmond McKinney and his wife, Cyndi Cavender McKinney, all of Fort Worth, and John Kevin McKinney and his wife, Greta Liljedahl McKinney, of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; grandchildren, B.J., Greg, Erin, Brian, Christian, James and Emmanuelle McKinney; brother, William C. McKinney Jr. of Minden, La.; sister, Virginia McKinney of Lubbock; and nephews.