Kenneth Lucian McCoy

1-27-24 – 9-29-12. Ken McCoy was born January 27, 1924 in Snyder, TX to Charles Augusta McCoy and Lucy Clotiel McCoy and passed away suddenly on Saturday, September 29, 2012. The McCoy family moved to northwest Louisiana near Elm Grove, where his father was a cotton farmer, when Ken was 10. He attended LSU on an ROTC scholarship. He left his sophomore year to train to be a pilot in the Army Air Corps, and served as a B24 instructor during the WWII. At war's end he returned to LSU and earned a degree in aeronautical engineering with a minor in mechanical engineering. Ken entered a PHD program at Cornell University where he met Mary Lou Patterson in the registration line his first week. He left Cornell to return to LSU and started a crop dusting business and was a flight instructor for the LSU flight school. While a graduate student at LSU, he was instructor and shared an office with Humphries Turner. After graduating from LSU, Ken married Mary Lou and moved to Grosse Pointe, Michigan where he worked for the airplane division of General Motors and was also an instructor at Wayne State University where he was pursuing a graduate degree. Upon the death of his father-in-law, he took over the family company. He developed it into K.L. McCoy & Associates, which did engineering consulting and represented HVAC manufacturers. After Mary Lou's death, he married Florence Turner of Baton Rouge, retired from K.L. McCoy & Assoc. and moved to Baton Rouge. Ken and Florence enjoyed years of traveling and fun with their buddies in the Claycut Road Country Club. He loved gardening, refinishing antique furniture and caning chairs for family and friends, and playing tennis. After Florence's death, Ken developed a loving relationship with Florence's friend, Snookie Daniel, that endured until Snookie's untimely passing. He is pre-deceased by his parents, his wife Mary Lou; wife Florence; and very special friend Snookie Daniel; his brother, Charles Augusta; twin sisters, Marge McFerren and Marion Mardis; and a son, Thomas Stewart McCoy. He is survived by "his three families". His immediate family includes his daughter Rebecca McCoy and husband Dan Simpkins; son John, son David and wife Mary Ann; son Todd and wife Carol; grandchildren Sarah Simpkins, Ben Simpkins, Alex McCoy, Jack McCoy, David McCoy, Jr., Karlyn McCoy, Michael McCoy, Andrew McCoy, Courtney McCoy, Kevin McCoy and Kyle McCoy. He is survived by stepchildren Jim Turner, II and wife Deborah, Florence Turner Bethard and husband Jim, Lib Turner Gilreath and husband Scott, and Martha Turner Thompson and husband Kim; step grandchildren Sarah Anne Turner, Jim Turner III and Scott Turner, Jay Bethard, Shirley Bethard Hagemeier and husband Todd, Henry Bethard, Ben Bethard and wife Meg, Courtney Gilreath Manship and husband Matt, Philip Gilreath and wife Andrea, Martha Gilreath , Scott Gilreath, Allen Gilreath, Turner Gilreath, Tab Hirschey, Virginia Hirschey, Ann Thompson and McKinley Thompson; and step great grandchildren Chloe Gilreath, Bennett Austin, Lex Tangman, Gray Bethard and Eli Hagemeier. He is also survived by his adopted family Danny Daniel and wife Lori, Colleen Daniel Williams and husband James, Pam Daniel Anderson and husband Jeff; and their children, Kristen Daniel James, Matt Daniel, Annie Grace Williams, Catherine Williams, Gunther Anderson, and Grace Anderson. Visitation will be Friday, October 5, 6-8pm at Rabenhorst Funeral Home East on Florida Blvd. and also Saturday, October 6, 12:30 at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church, directly followed by the service at 1:30. There will be a reception following the service at the church. A memorial service and interment ceremony will be held at 2:30 on November 24, at Christ Episcopal Church, Grosse Pointe, Michigan. A reception will follow at the church. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the American Cancer Societ. A guest registry is available at www.Rabenhorst.com.