She was born at 4:10am at the Los Angeles County Osteopathic Hospital. Her natural parents are Bertie Cecil Vaughn and LaVerna Lorraine Lohr. While in the hospital, LaVerna signed over custody to the adopting parents, Ray C and Rose C Sullivan Spear, who named the girl Madelyn Rose. Madelyn was christened at Saint Matthias Roman Catholic Church in Huntington Park on October 2, 1943.
She grew up on Olive Street in Walnut Park (though often associated with nearby Huntington Park). As a girl, she enjoyed playing Cowboys and Indians with her friends and cousins. The family used to sit and listen to Jack Benny and The Shadow (a part of Mystery Theatre) on the radio. Their first TV, purchased in 1949, was an RCA. It had a color screen attachment that was soon discarded for always making the sky look green.
Madelyn began Kindergarten at State Street Elementary School in 1948. By the start of the second grade, in the Fall of 1951, she was enrolled into Saint Matthias Elementary School. She didn't like it there, and after the 8th grade, prevailed upon her parents to let her attend Huntington Park High School.
She presented some challenges to her parents as a teenager and dropped out of the 11th grade in February 1961. Her parents talked with her and encouraged her to complete her high school education by enrolling in the night school program at Huntington Park High School. It was there that she met Kenneth Torbett Bottoms.
They fell in love and decided to get married. On their trip to Las Vegas, the car failed and so did their plan. But not long afterwards, on April 29th, they traveled down to San Diego, and walked across the border into Mexico. Upon entering Tijuana, they saw an attorney's office and inquired about marriage. The attorney married them. Although the marriage was legal, US law at the time required registering the marriage in the United States within a certain time frame.
Ken and Jeannie, as she was known to her friends, resided in California for about a month before traveling to Atlanta to see his parents. Although the marriage started well, arguments ensued, and by the time they returned to California in mid-June, the relationship had fallen apart.
Madelyn stayed with her parents. Her father sought an annulment, but discovered that it wasn't necessary because the couple had failed to register the marriage in the US. The only child from the marriage, a son, was born on January 30, 1962.
A couple of months later, she met Edwin Frank Miller Jr. They married on May 5, 1962, at the Chapel of Love in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. Although, her first marriage wasn't recognized by the US, it was recognized by the Roman Catholic Church and she was disfellowshipped.
Frank and Lyn, as she was beginning to be called, did well during the first year of marriage, but after their first child was born, tensions began to ensue. The marriage ended and their second child, Edwin Frank Miller III, called Eddie, was adopted out of the family. Early in 1965, a brief relationship with James M Sanford led to birth of twins, Monika Lyn and Waine Patrick (incorrectly recorded as Monica Lyn and Wayne Patrick on their birth records); they, too, were adopted out of the family.
The only child of her first marriage and the first child of her second marriage were left with her parents on Walnut Street in Huntington Park, while she worked. During that time, Lyn worked as a telephone operator and later as a laundromat attendant.
She married John Raymond Putman on June 8, 1966, in Huntington Park, Los Angeles County, California. They moved into the front house on Walnut Street, and after the passing of her mother in 1967, moved the two children into their home.
Johnny and Lyn's relation began to fail and she found herself pregnant again. A custody agreement placed Andy into each one's care for six weeks at a time. After Andy was placed into the care of his father, he asked if he could take Andy with him to Arkansas for the Summer. But when time came for him to return Andy, he requested extensions.
Facing increasing difficulties, Lyn placed her two older children into foster care in May 1969, and without authorization, retrieved them in September of that year. Soon after, she and her children, and her new boyfriend Douglas Lloyd Keeny, known as Don, left for Michigan. After Don reunited with his son William Paul Keeny, known as Bill, and visited with his father Lloyd Keeny for a couple of months, the family continued on to Evansville, Indiana. After a few weeks there, they moved to Boswell, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, where Lyn's grandfather Ambrose had served as sheriff and marshall. From there, they moved to Wichita, Kansas, and then back to California.
After returning to California, she found that her father, being alone, had taken up drinking. In an effort to detour him, she restricted him from seeing his grandchildren. A letter came in November 1970, informing her that Andy had died as the result of a tractor accident. Three photos of Andy were included which were taken over recent months.
Lyn married Don on June 1, 1970, in a double wedding ceremony with Sharyn Anderson and her fiancé in Huntington Park. Lyn had previously told people that she and Don were married on June 1, 1969. During their nearly ten years of marriage they had no children.
After her father died in 1972, she took her family and left California on the morning of July 3, 1972; residing in Texas (1972-73), Michigan (1973-74), Texas again (1974), and New Mexico (1974-1976). In September 1976, after a couple weeks in Michigan, the family moved to Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky. While in Owensboro, she passed her GED test in 1978 and attended Wesleyan College for half a semester.
Tensions had been a part of her marriage with Don for years, but escalated in 1979, leading to their separation in October of that year. She and her eldest daughter moved to Albuquerque. Don filed for divorce in 1981. Lyn married Robert McCormick Key on July 2, 1982, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. She and Bob had no children.
In 1986, Bob and Lyn moved out to Arkansas. Bob's health deteriorated and he died in 1987. By 1990, she had moved with her daughter to Illinois, later to Kentucky, then back to Arkansas. In 2000, Lyn with her daughter and her daughter's family moved to San Juan County, New Mexico.
In 2005, Lyn was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which she referred to as severe bronchitis. She collapsed at her home on August 8, 2011, and was taken to San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico. It was determined that she had received a severe anoxic brain injury (brain damage from lack of oxygen) due to cardiopulmonary arrest. She passed away at 5:41pm (death certificate states 5:50pm) on August 13, 2011.
The Daily Times - Farmington, New Mexico
Wednesday, August 17, 2011, p B9.
Madelyn R. Key
Sept. 17, 1943 - Aug. 13, 2011
Madelyn R. Key, 67, of Aztec, died on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, in Farmington. She was born Sept. 17, 1943, in Los Angeles, Calif.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at Cope Memorial Chapel of Aztec, 405 S. Main Ave.
Interment will be at Aztec Cemetery.
Arrangements are with Cope Memorial Chapel of Aztec, 405 S. Main Ave., (505) 334-9332.
[note: The same obituary was also printed in the Tuesday, August 16, 2011, edition on page A5, with her name misspelled Madely R. Key.]
The funeral was held on August 18, 2011, from 10:00 to 10:30am at Cope Memorial Chapel of Aztec. Afterwards, Lyn was buried at the Aztec Community Cemetery. The graveside service lasted from 11:00 to 11:25am. Pallbearers were Raymond Lawrence Bothoms, Talmadge Roy Hall, Joseph Paul Green, Kyle Elton Scribner, and William Scott Leffler.
B
This biography is NOT to be posted to any other website without permission.
(bio by: Raymond B.)
She grew up on Olive Street in Walnut Park (though often associated with nearby Huntington Park). As a girl, she enjoyed playing Cowboys and Indians with her friends and cousins. The family used to sit and listen to Jack Benny and The Shadow (a part of Mystery Theatre) on the radio. Their first TV, purchased in 1949, was an RCA. It had a color screen attachment that was soon discarded for always making the sky look green.
Madelyn began Kindergarten at State Street Elementary School in 1948. By the start of the second grade, in the Fall of 1951, she was enrolled into Saint Matthias Elementary School. She didn't like it there, and after the 8th grade, prevailed upon her parents to let her attend Huntington Park High School.
She presented some challenges to her parents as a teenager and dropped out of the 11th grade in February 1961. Her parents talked with her and encouraged her to complete her high school education by enrolling in the night school program at Huntington Park High School. It was there that she met Kenneth Torbett Bottoms.
They fell in love and decided to get married. On their trip to Las Vegas, the car failed and so did their plan. But not long afterwards, on April 29th, they traveled down to San Diego, and walked across the border into Mexico. Upon entering Tijuana, they saw an attorney's office and inquired about marriage. The attorney married them. Although the marriage was legal, US law at the time required registering the marriage in the United States within a certain time frame.
Ken and Jeannie, as she was known to her friends, resided in California for about a month before traveling to Atlanta to see his parents. Although the marriage started well, arguments ensued, and by the time they returned to California in mid-June, the relationship had fallen apart.
Madelyn stayed with her parents. Her father sought an annulment, but discovered that it wasn't necessary because the couple had failed to register the marriage in the US. The only child from the marriage, a son, was born on January 30, 1962.
A couple of months later, she met Edwin Frank Miller Jr. They married on May 5, 1962, at the Chapel of Love in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. Although, her first marriage wasn't recognized by the US, it was recognized by the Roman Catholic Church and she was disfellowshipped.
Frank and Lyn, as she was beginning to be called, did well during the first year of marriage, but after their first child was born, tensions began to ensue. The marriage ended and their second child, Edwin Frank Miller III, called Eddie, was adopted out of the family. Early in 1965, a brief relationship with James M Sanford led to birth of twins, Monika Lyn and Waine Patrick (incorrectly recorded as Monica Lyn and Wayne Patrick on their birth records); they, too, were adopted out of the family.
The only child of her first marriage and the first child of her second marriage were left with her parents on Walnut Street in Huntington Park, while she worked. During that time, Lyn worked as a telephone operator and later as a laundromat attendant.
She married John Raymond Putman on June 8, 1966, in Huntington Park, Los Angeles County, California. They moved into the front house on Walnut Street, and after the passing of her mother in 1967, moved the two children into their home.
Johnny and Lyn's relation began to fail and she found herself pregnant again. A custody agreement placed Andy into each one's care for six weeks at a time. After Andy was placed into the care of his father, he asked if he could take Andy with him to Arkansas for the Summer. But when time came for him to return Andy, he requested extensions.
Facing increasing difficulties, Lyn placed her two older children into foster care in May 1969, and without authorization, retrieved them in September of that year. Soon after, she and her children, and her new boyfriend Douglas Lloyd Keeny, known as Don, left for Michigan. After Don reunited with his son William Paul Keeny, known as Bill, and visited with his father Lloyd Keeny for a couple of months, the family continued on to Evansville, Indiana. After a few weeks there, they moved to Boswell, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, where Lyn's grandfather Ambrose had served as sheriff and marshall. From there, they moved to Wichita, Kansas, and then back to California.
After returning to California, she found that her father, being alone, had taken up drinking. In an effort to detour him, she restricted him from seeing his grandchildren. A letter came in November 1970, informing her that Andy had died as the result of a tractor accident. Three photos of Andy were included which were taken over recent months.
Lyn married Don on June 1, 1970, in a double wedding ceremony with Sharyn Anderson and her fiancé in Huntington Park. Lyn had previously told people that she and Don were married on June 1, 1969. During their nearly ten years of marriage they had no children.
After her father died in 1972, she took her family and left California on the morning of July 3, 1972; residing in Texas (1972-73), Michigan (1973-74), Texas again (1974), and New Mexico (1974-1976). In September 1976, after a couple weeks in Michigan, the family moved to Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky. While in Owensboro, she passed her GED test in 1978 and attended Wesleyan College for half a semester.
Tensions had been a part of her marriage with Don for years, but escalated in 1979, leading to their separation in October of that year. She and her eldest daughter moved to Albuquerque. Don filed for divorce in 1981. Lyn married Robert McCormick Key on July 2, 1982, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. She and Bob had no children.
In 1986, Bob and Lyn moved out to Arkansas. Bob's health deteriorated and he died in 1987. By 1990, she had moved with her daughter to Illinois, later to Kentucky, then back to Arkansas. In 2000, Lyn with her daughter and her daughter's family moved to San Juan County, New Mexico.
In 2005, Lyn was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which she referred to as severe bronchitis. She collapsed at her home on August 8, 2011, and was taken to San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico. It was determined that she had received a severe anoxic brain injury (brain damage from lack of oxygen) due to cardiopulmonary arrest. She passed away at 5:41pm (death certificate states 5:50pm) on August 13, 2011.
The Daily Times - Farmington, New Mexico
Wednesday, August 17, 2011, p B9.
Madelyn R. Key
Sept. 17, 1943 - Aug. 13, 2011
Madelyn R. Key, 67, of Aztec, died on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, in Farmington. She was born Sept. 17, 1943, in Los Angeles, Calif.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at Cope Memorial Chapel of Aztec, 405 S. Main Ave.
Interment will be at Aztec Cemetery.
Arrangements are with Cope Memorial Chapel of Aztec, 405 S. Main Ave., (505) 334-9332.
[note: The same obituary was also printed in the Tuesday, August 16, 2011, edition on page A5, with her name misspelled Madely R. Key.]
The funeral was held on August 18, 2011, from 10:00 to 10:30am at Cope Memorial Chapel of Aztec. Afterwards, Lyn was buried at the Aztec Community Cemetery. The graveside service lasted from 11:00 to 11:25am. Pallbearers were Raymond Lawrence Bothoms, Talmadge Roy Hall, Joseph Paul Green, Kyle Elton Scribner, and William Scott Leffler.
B
This biography is NOT to be posted to any other website without permission.
(bio by: Raymond B.)
She was born at 4:10am at the Los Angeles County Osteopathic Hospital. Her natural parents are Bertie Cecil Vaughn and LaVerna Lorraine Lohr. While in the hospital, LaVerna signed over custody to the adopting parents, Ray C and Rose C Sullivan Spear, who named the girl Madelyn Rose. Madelyn was christened at Saint Matthias Roman Catholic Church in Huntington Park on October 2, 1943.
She grew up on Olive Street in Walnut Park (though often associated with nearby Huntington Park). As a girl, she enjoyed playing Cowboys and Indians with her friends and cousins. The family used to sit and listen to Jack Benny and The Shadow (a part of Mystery Theatre) on the radio. Their first TV, purchased in 1949, was an RCA. It had a color screen attachment that was soon discarded for always making the sky look green.
Madelyn began Kindergarten at State Street Elementary School in 1948. By the start of the second grade, in the Fall of 1951, she was enrolled into Saint Matthias Elementary School. She didn't like it there, and after the 8th grade, prevailed upon her parents to let her attend Huntington Park High School.
She presented some challenges to her parents as a teenager and dropped out of the 11th grade in February 1961. Her parents talked with her and encouraged her to complete her high school education by enrolling in the night school program at Huntington Park High School. It was there that she met Kenneth Torbett Bottoms.
They fell in love and decided to get married. On their trip to Las Vegas, the car failed and so did their plan. But not long afterwards, on April 29th, they traveled down to San Diego, and walked across the border into Mexico. Upon entering Tijuana, they saw an attorney's office and inquired about marriage. The attorney married them. Although the marriage was legal, US law at the time required registering the marriage in the United States within a certain time frame.
Ken and Jeannie, as she was known to her friends, resided in California for about a month before traveling to Atlanta to see his parents. Although the marriage started well, arguments ensued, and by the time they returned to California in mid-June, the relationship had fallen apart.
Madelyn stayed with her parents. Her father sought an annulment, but discovered that it wasn't necessary because the couple had failed to register the marriage in the US. The only child from the marriage, a son, was born on January 30, 1962.
A couple of months later, she met Edwin Frank Miller Jr. They married on May 5, 1962, at the Chapel of Love in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. Although, her first marriage wasn't recognized by the US, it was recognized by the Roman Catholic Church and she was disfellowshipped.
Frank and Lyn, as she was beginning to be called, did well during the first year of marriage, but after their first child was born, tensions began to ensue. The marriage ended and their second child, Edwin Frank Miller III, called Eddie, was adopted out of the family. Early in 1965, a brief relationship with James M Sanford led to birth of twins, Monika Lyn and Waine Patrick (incorrectly recorded as Monica Lyn and Wayne Patrick on their birth records); they, too, were adopted out of the family.
The only child of her first marriage and the first child of her second marriage were left with her parents on Walnut Street in Huntington Park, while she worked. During that time, Lyn worked as a telephone operator and later as a laundromat attendant.
She married John Raymond Putman on June 8, 1966, in Huntington Park, Los Angeles County, California. They moved into the front house on Walnut Street, and after the passing of her mother in 1967, moved the two children into their home.
Johnny and Lyn's relation began to fail and she found herself pregnant again. A custody agreement placed Andy into each one's care for six weeks at a time. After Andy was placed into the care of his father, he asked if he could take Andy with him to Arkansas for the Summer. But when time came for him to return Andy, he requested extensions.
Facing increasing difficulties, Lyn placed her two older children into foster care in May 1969, and without authorization, retrieved them in September of that year. Soon after, she and her children, and her new boyfriend Douglas Lloyd Keeny, known as Don, left for Michigan. After Don reunited with his son William Paul Keeny, known as Bill, and visited with his father Lloyd Keeny for a couple of months, the family continued on to Evansville, Indiana. After a few weeks there, they moved to Boswell, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, where Lyn's grandfather Ambrose had served as sheriff and marshall. From there, they moved to Wichita, Kansas, and then back to California.
After returning to California, she found that her father, being alone, had taken up drinking. In an effort to detour him, she restricted him from seeing his grandchildren. A letter came in November 1970, informing her that Andy had died as the result of a tractor accident. Three photos of Andy were included which were taken over recent months.
Lyn married Don on June 1, 1970, in a double wedding ceremony with Sharyn Anderson and her fiancé in Huntington Park. Lyn had previously told people that she and Don were married on June 1, 1969. During their nearly ten years of marriage they had no children.
After her father died in 1972, she took her family and left California on the morning of July 3, 1972; residing in Texas (1972-73), Michigan (1973-74), Texas again (1974), and New Mexico (1974-1976). In September 1976, after a couple weeks in Michigan, the family moved to Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky. While in Owensboro, she passed her GED test in 1978 and attended Wesleyan College for half a semester.
Tensions had been a part of her marriage with Don for years, but escalated in 1979, leading to their separation in October of that year. She and her eldest daughter moved to Albuquerque. Don filed for divorce in 1981. Lyn married Robert McCormick Key on July 2, 1982, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. She and Bob had no children.
In 1986, Bob and Lyn moved out to Arkansas. Bob's health deteriorated and he died in 1987. By 1990, she had moved with her daughter to Illinois, later to Kentucky, then back to Arkansas. In 2000, Lyn with her daughter and her daughter's family moved to San Juan County, New Mexico.
In 2005, Lyn was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which she referred to as severe bronchitis. She collapsed at her home on August 8, 2011, and was taken to San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico. It was determined that she had received a severe anoxic brain injury (brain damage from lack of oxygen) due to cardiopulmonary arrest. She passed away at 5:41pm (death certificate states 5:50pm) on August 13, 2011.
The Daily Times - Farmington, New Mexico
Wednesday, August 17, 2011, p B9.
Madelyn R. Key
Sept. 17, 1943 - Aug. 13, 2011
Madelyn R. Key, 67, of Aztec, died on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, in Farmington. She was born Sept. 17, 1943, in Los Angeles, Calif.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at Cope Memorial Chapel of Aztec, 405 S. Main Ave.
Interment will be at Aztec Cemetery.
Arrangements are with Cope Memorial Chapel of Aztec, 405 S. Main Ave., (505) 334-9332.
[note: The same obituary was also printed in the Tuesday, August 16, 2011, edition on page A5, with her name misspelled Madely R. Key.]
The funeral was held on August 18, 2011, from 10:00 to 10:30am at Cope Memorial Chapel of Aztec. Afterwards, Lyn was buried at the Aztec Community Cemetery. The graveside service lasted from 11:00 to 11:25am. Pallbearers were Raymond Lawrence Bothoms, Talmadge Roy Hall, Joseph Paul Green, Kyle Elton Scribner, and William Scott Leffler.
B
This biography is NOT to be posted to any other website without permission.
(bio by: Raymond B.)
She grew up on Olive Street in Walnut Park (though often associated with nearby Huntington Park). As a girl, she enjoyed playing Cowboys and Indians with her friends and cousins. The family used to sit and listen to Jack Benny and The Shadow (a part of Mystery Theatre) on the radio. Their first TV, purchased in 1949, was an RCA. It had a color screen attachment that was soon discarded for always making the sky look green.
Madelyn began Kindergarten at State Street Elementary School in 1948. By the start of the second grade, in the Fall of 1951, she was enrolled into Saint Matthias Elementary School. She didn't like it there, and after the 8th grade, prevailed upon her parents to let her attend Huntington Park High School.
She presented some challenges to her parents as a teenager and dropped out of the 11th grade in February 1961. Her parents talked with her and encouraged her to complete her high school education by enrolling in the night school program at Huntington Park High School. It was there that she met Kenneth Torbett Bottoms.
They fell in love and decided to get married. On their trip to Las Vegas, the car failed and so did their plan. But not long afterwards, on April 29th, they traveled down to San Diego, and walked across the border into Mexico. Upon entering Tijuana, they saw an attorney's office and inquired about marriage. The attorney married them. Although the marriage was legal, US law at the time required registering the marriage in the United States within a certain time frame.
Ken and Jeannie, as she was known to her friends, resided in California for about a month before traveling to Atlanta to see his parents. Although the marriage started well, arguments ensued, and by the time they returned to California in mid-June, the relationship had fallen apart.
Madelyn stayed with her parents. Her father sought an annulment, but discovered that it wasn't necessary because the couple had failed to register the marriage in the US. The only child from the marriage, a son, was born on January 30, 1962.
A couple of months later, she met Edwin Frank Miller Jr. They married on May 5, 1962, at the Chapel of Love in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. Although, her first marriage wasn't recognized by the US, it was recognized by the Roman Catholic Church and she was disfellowshipped.
Frank and Lyn, as she was beginning to be called, did well during the first year of marriage, but after their first child was born, tensions began to ensue. The marriage ended and their second child, Edwin Frank Miller III, called Eddie, was adopted out of the family. Early in 1965, a brief relationship with James M Sanford led to birth of twins, Monika Lyn and Waine Patrick (incorrectly recorded as Monica Lyn and Wayne Patrick on their birth records); they, too, were adopted out of the family.
The only child of her first marriage and the first child of her second marriage were left with her parents on Walnut Street in Huntington Park, while she worked. During that time, Lyn worked as a telephone operator and later as a laundromat attendant.
She married John Raymond Putman on June 8, 1966, in Huntington Park, Los Angeles County, California. They moved into the front house on Walnut Street, and after the passing of her mother in 1967, moved the two children into their home.
Johnny and Lyn's relation began to fail and she found herself pregnant again. A custody agreement placed Andy into each one's care for six weeks at a time. After Andy was placed into the care of his father, he asked if he could take Andy with him to Arkansas for the Summer. But when time came for him to return Andy, he requested extensions.
Facing increasing difficulties, Lyn placed her two older children into foster care in May 1969, and without authorization, retrieved them in September of that year. Soon after, she and her children, and her new boyfriend Douglas Lloyd Keeny, known as Don, left for Michigan. After Don reunited with his son William Paul Keeny, known as Bill, and visited with his father Lloyd Keeny for a couple of months, the family continued on to Evansville, Indiana. After a few weeks there, they moved to Boswell, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, where Lyn's grandfather Ambrose had served as sheriff and marshall. From there, they moved to Wichita, Kansas, and then back to California.
After returning to California, she found that her father, being alone, had taken up drinking. In an effort to detour him, she restricted him from seeing his grandchildren. A letter came in November 1970, informing her that Andy had died as the result of a tractor accident. Three photos of Andy were included which were taken over recent months.
Lyn married Don on June 1, 1970, in a double wedding ceremony with Sharyn Anderson and her fiancé in Huntington Park. Lyn had previously told people that she and Don were married on June 1, 1969. During their nearly ten years of marriage they had no children.
After her father died in 1972, she took her family and left California on the morning of July 3, 1972; residing in Texas (1972-73), Michigan (1973-74), Texas again (1974), and New Mexico (1974-1976). In September 1976, after a couple weeks in Michigan, the family moved to Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky. While in Owensboro, she passed her GED test in 1978 and attended Wesleyan College for half a semester.
Tensions had been a part of her marriage with Don for years, but escalated in 1979, leading to their separation in October of that year. She and her eldest daughter moved to Albuquerque. Don filed for divorce in 1981. Lyn married Robert McCormick Key on July 2, 1982, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. She and Bob had no children.
In 1986, Bob and Lyn moved out to Arkansas. Bob's health deteriorated and he died in 1987. By 1990, she had moved with her daughter to Illinois, later to Kentucky, then back to Arkansas. In 2000, Lyn with her daughter and her daughter's family moved to San Juan County, New Mexico.
In 2005, Lyn was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which she referred to as severe bronchitis. She collapsed at her home on August 8, 2011, and was taken to San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico. It was determined that she had received a severe anoxic brain injury (brain damage from lack of oxygen) due to cardiopulmonary arrest. She passed away at 5:41pm (death certificate states 5:50pm) on August 13, 2011.
The Daily Times - Farmington, New Mexico
Wednesday, August 17, 2011, p B9.
Madelyn R. Key
Sept. 17, 1943 - Aug. 13, 2011
Madelyn R. Key, 67, of Aztec, died on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, in Farmington. She was born Sept. 17, 1943, in Los Angeles, Calif.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, at Cope Memorial Chapel of Aztec, 405 S. Main Ave.
Interment will be at Aztec Cemetery.
Arrangements are with Cope Memorial Chapel of Aztec, 405 S. Main Ave., (505) 334-9332.
[note: The same obituary was also printed in the Tuesday, August 16, 2011, edition on page A5, with her name misspelled Madely R. Key.]
The funeral was held on August 18, 2011, from 10:00 to 10:30am at Cope Memorial Chapel of Aztec. Afterwards, Lyn was buried at the Aztec Community Cemetery. The graveside service lasted from 11:00 to 11:25am. Pallbearers were Raymond Lawrence Bothoms, Talmadge Roy Hall, Joseph Paul Green, Kyle Elton Scribner, and William Scott Leffler.
B
This biography is NOT to be posted to any other website without permission.
(bio by: Raymond B.)
Inscription
Beloved Mom and Grandma
Lyn R. Key
September 17, 1943 - August 13, 2011
In Our Hearts
Gravesite Details
Interment - August 18, 2011; Grave Dedication - August 18, 2011; Headstone Placed - June 23, 2012
Family Members
Siblings
Children
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
