McKnight, Bobbie Burns 

KILGORE -- Services for Bobbie McKnight, 79, of Kilgore, will be 10 a.m. Monday, 
April 17, 2006, at the Rader Funeral Home Chapel, with the Reverend Robert Besser 
and the Reverend Ralph Rudy officiating. Burial will follow in the Kilgore Cemetery. 
Mrs. McKnight died Thursday, April 13, 2006, in Kilgore. She was born May 4, 1926, 
in Olney, Texas, to R.G. and Louise Burns. Her family moved to Kilgore in the 
mid-1930's. Mrs. McKnight was a 1943 graduate of Kilgore High School. She went to 
Kilgore College and the University of Texas. Mrs. McKnight moved back to Kilgore in 
1964, when she began her career as an assistant librarian for the Longview Public
Library. She was a longtime member of the St. Luke's United Methodist Church, where 
she was involved in the United Methodist Women and the "Hilltoppers." Mrs. McKnight 
is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Kay and Jack Evans of Kilgore; four 
grandchildren, Kellie and her husband, Joe Bailey, of Kilgore, Kevin Davidson of 
Kilgore, Jarrod and his wife, Tara Evans, of Wichita, Kansas, and Jaclyn Evans of 
Lubbock; and three great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her daughter, 
Karen Chaney; and her parents, R.G. "Red" and Louise Burns. The family will receive 
friends 6:30-8 p.m. Sunday evening, April 16, 2006, at Rader Funeral Home. Memorial 
contributions may be made to the Heart'sWay Hospice, 1306 Pine Tree Rd., Longview, 
TX 75604. Please leave online condolences at www.Raderfuneralhome.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 4/15/2006.