Eric Todd McKinney

Published 2:15 pm Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Eric Todd McKinney, 51, Hampton, passed away Saturday, October 14, 2017 at his residence. Born June 11, 1966 in Elizabethton to Larry H. McKinney and Loretta Stevens McKinney. He was a graduate of Hampton High School. He was employed at Snap-On-Tools for 33 years. He was of the Free Will Baptist Faith. Todd was preceded in death by his step-mother: Sharon McKinney, his grandparents: Byrl & Ailene McKinney and Jerome & Luster Stevens.

Survivors include: his father Larry McKinney and friend Fran Weddle, his mother Loretta Stevens McKinney, his daughter Krista Bowling and husband Cody and children, his fiancée Tammie Dugger & her daughter Cheyenne, His Sisters: Shannon Harr, Tammy Markland. Several aunts & uncles, nieces, & nephews and great nieces & cousins also survive.

Graveside Service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, October 19, 2017 in the McKinney Cemetery. Music will be provided by Loretta Bowers. Active Pallbearers will be: Carl Lacey, Darryl Hitechew, Cody Bowling, Ed Birchfield, Russell Vines and Ed Morton. Honorary Pallbearers will be Vaughn Simerly, Jeremiah Bowling, Rick McKinney, the Snap-On-Tools family, all of his X-Darlings, Bruce Johnson and Murphy Winters. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Shrines Hospital for Children, 950 W. Faris Road, Greenville, SC 29605-4255. Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 10:10 a.m. Thursday to go to the cemetery.  Condolences may be sent to the family at our web-site www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.

Memorial Funeral Chapel is serving the McKinney Family