Son of Charles Taylor McGinnis and Nancy Hughes Pratt.
Dallas Morning News - Feb.21, 1960
RITES SET FOR F.K. MCGINNIS PIONEER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Funeral services for Francis K. McGinnis ,83,a pioneer landscape architect,will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Anderson -Clayton Chapel in Mesquite with Dr.Edward A.Mohns officiating. Burial will be in the College Mound Cemetery near Terell.
Mr.McGinnis,of 5215 Monticello, died Friday afternoonin a Dallas hospital after a brief illness .
A Dallas resident since 1913,Mr. McGinnis was insrumental in obtaining the land bordering Turtle Creek for the City of Dallas . He was the supervising landscape architect for the Texas Centenial in 1936 and was a member of the Dallas Park Board from about 1924 to 1932 .
Mr.McGinnis was born in Wright City ,Mo. and moved to Terrell with his family at the age of eight .
He attended the University of Missouri and was graduated from Texas A and M College in 1900.He later attended the Universities of Michigan and Harvard for graduate study .
In 1959 he was given an award by the A&M Former Students Association for his continuing work for the association and the college .He made a speech before the Dallas A&M Club a few days before his illness .
Mr.McGinnis was interested in the Dallas Symphony and rarely missed a musical program in Dallas .
Survivors are a son ,Francis K.McGinnis, Jr. of Dallas : Three brothers ,Nestor M.McGinnis of College Station ,Perry T. McGinnis of Denton and Taylor McGinnis of Greggton ,Gregg County ;Three sisters ,Mrs.W.K. Hart of Dallas ,Mrs.K.M.Pieper of Hot Springs ,Ark.,and Mrs.Ernest Shuler of Keitchi ,La.; and two grandchildren .
Dallas Morning News - Feb.21, 1960
RITES SET FOR F.K. MCGINNIS PIONEER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Funeral services for Francis K. McGinnis ,83,a pioneer landscape architect,will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Anderson -Clayton Chapel in Mesquite with Dr.Edward A.Mohns officiating. Burial will be in the College Mound Cemetery near Terell.
Mr.McGinnis,of 5215 Monticello, died Friday afternoonin a Dallas hospital after a brief illness .
A Dallas resident since 1913,Mr. McGinnis was insrumental in obtaining the land bordering Turtle Creek for the City of Dallas . He was the supervising landscape architect for the Texas Centenial in 1936 and was a member of the Dallas Park Board from about 1924 to 1932 .
Mr.McGinnis was born in Wright City ,Mo. and moved to Terrell with his family at the age of eight .
He attended the University of Missouri and was graduated from Texas A and M College in 1900.He later attended the Universities of Michigan and Harvard for graduate study .
In 1959 he was given an award by the A&M Former Students Association for his continuing work for the association and the college .He made a speech before the Dallas A&M Club a few days before his illness .
Mr.McGinnis was interested in the Dallas Symphony and rarely missed a musical program in Dallas .
Survivors are a son ,Francis K.McGinnis, Jr. of Dallas : Three brothers ,Nestor M.McGinnis of College Station ,Perry T. McGinnis of Denton and Taylor McGinnis of Greggton ,Gregg County ;Three sisters ,Mrs.W.K. Hart of Dallas ,Mrs.K.M.Pieper of Hot Springs ,Ark.,and Mrs.Ernest Shuler of Keitchi ,La.; and two grandchildren .
Son of Charles Taylor McGinnis and Nancy Hughes Pratt.
Dallas Morning News - Feb.21, 1960
RITES SET FOR F.K. MCGINNIS PIONEER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Funeral services for Francis K. McGinnis ,83,a pioneer landscape architect,will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Anderson -Clayton Chapel in Mesquite with Dr.Edward A.Mohns officiating. Burial will be in the College Mound Cemetery near Terell.
Mr.McGinnis,of 5215 Monticello, died Friday afternoonin a Dallas hospital after a brief illness .
A Dallas resident since 1913,Mr. McGinnis was insrumental in obtaining the land bordering Turtle Creek for the City of Dallas . He was the supervising landscape architect for the Texas Centenial in 1936 and was a member of the Dallas Park Board from about 1924 to 1932 .
Mr.McGinnis was born in Wright City ,Mo. and moved to Terrell with his family at the age of eight .
He attended the University of Missouri and was graduated from Texas A and M College in 1900.He later attended the Universities of Michigan and Harvard for graduate study .
In 1959 he was given an award by the A&M Former Students Association for his continuing work for the association and the college .He made a speech before the Dallas A&M Club a few days before his illness .
Mr.McGinnis was interested in the Dallas Symphony and rarely missed a musical program in Dallas .
Survivors are a son ,Francis K.McGinnis, Jr. of Dallas : Three brothers ,Nestor M.McGinnis of College Station ,Perry T. McGinnis of Denton and Taylor McGinnis of Greggton ,Gregg County ;Three sisters ,Mrs.W.K. Hart of Dallas ,Mrs.K.M.Pieper of Hot Springs ,Ark.,and Mrs.Ernest Shuler of Keitchi ,La.; and two grandchildren .
Dallas Morning News - Feb.21, 1960
RITES SET FOR F.K. MCGINNIS PIONEER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Funeral services for Francis K. McGinnis ,83,a pioneer landscape architect,will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Anderson -Clayton Chapel in Mesquite with Dr.Edward A.Mohns officiating. Burial will be in the College Mound Cemetery near Terell.
Mr.McGinnis,of 5215 Monticello, died Friday afternoonin a Dallas hospital after a brief illness .
A Dallas resident since 1913,Mr. McGinnis was insrumental in obtaining the land bordering Turtle Creek for the City of Dallas . He was the supervising landscape architect for the Texas Centenial in 1936 and was a member of the Dallas Park Board from about 1924 to 1932 .
Mr.McGinnis was born in Wright City ,Mo. and moved to Terrell with his family at the age of eight .
He attended the University of Missouri and was graduated from Texas A and M College in 1900.He later attended the Universities of Michigan and Harvard for graduate study .
In 1959 he was given an award by the A&M Former Students Association for his continuing work for the association and the college .He made a speech before the Dallas A&M Club a few days before his illness .
Mr.McGinnis was interested in the Dallas Symphony and rarely missed a musical program in Dallas .
Survivors are a son ,Francis K.McGinnis, Jr. of Dallas : Three brothers ,Nestor M.McGinnis of College Station ,Perry T. McGinnis of Denton and Taylor McGinnis of Greggton ,Gregg County ;Three sisters ,Mrs.W.K. Hart of Dallas ,Mrs.K.M.Pieper of Hot Springs ,Ark.,and Mrs.Ernest Shuler of Keitchi ,La.; and two grandchildren .
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