Vera N. McKinney, GW

Vera was born on 24 November 1922 in Portage, Pennsylvania, to Jerome and Anna (George) McKinney.  The family was associated with the Community Gospel Church.  As a teenager, Vera was involved with Christian Endeavor, a Christian service organization.  By 1950 Vera’s father had passed away, and Vera was living with her widowed mother and teenaged brother Robert.  Vera worked as a seamstress in a sewing factory.  She was the only one in the household that was employed.  Vera died on 3 July 2016 and is buried with the other Gospel Workers in the Brooklyn Heights Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.  According to an obituary posted on Find-a-Grave, Vera was a member of the Gospel Worker Society, serving at the Union Gospel Press for nearly 60 years.  That would put her entrance date around 1955.