Mike was born in Chicago on Sep. 21, 1935, and was raised in Bucks County, Pa. and Isabel, S.D. Mike was a medical editor in New York City and Philadelphia, for many years. In the 1970s, 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, N.M.; son Andrew McKean, wife Lih-An, and children Merlin, Ellis, and Iris, of Glasgow, Mont.; son Hugh McKean, wife Kristin, and children Hanna and Aiden, of Loveland, Colo.
Mike is also survived by his sisters, Martha Bass, of Charlottesville, Va., and Sara Plunkett, of Charlotte, N.C., and his half-brother, Kenneth McKean, of Ketchum, Idaho.
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 in Putnam County on Saturday, Aug. 29 at 2 p.m. Friends are welcome to join the family there. A memorial gathering for Mike in Rolla will be set for a later date. Memorials to Mike McKean can be sent to the Missouri Prairie Foundation (1-888-THE-MPF-9, P.O. Box 200 Columbia Mo. 65205) or to Tri-Rivers Planned Parenthood.
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