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Robert G. McKay - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Evening Post November 17, 1947

LAST RITES FOR LIEUTENANT M'KAY

TALLULAH, La., Nov. 17- Funeral services for Lieutenant Robert G. McKay, who was killed in the Battle 
of the Bulge in order to save his men, will be held at the home of his mother, Mrs. M. G. McKay, in 
Waverly Wednesday, morning with the Rev. Sam Holiday, Methodist minister of Coushatta, officiating, 
assisted by the Rev. G. L. Tatum of Delhi.

There will be full military rites at the grave at Sarepta Cemetery near Port Gibson, which will be 
in charge of the Tallulah post of the American Legion, Joe Milton Clark, post commander. Pallbearers 
will be chosen from the members of the local post.

Lieutenant McKay is survived by his mother, Mrs. M. G. McKay; two brothers, Charles McKay of Baton Rouge 
and Frank McKay of Waverly; and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. I. Z. McKay of Bogalusa.