It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Mary Christine McKnight, 76, who departed from this world on March 29, 2024, surrounded by family. She was born on December 4, 1947, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky to Paul Menser McKnight and Christine Cranor McKnight.
She grew up in Bowling Green and graduated from the radiology technician program and Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. She retired in 2013 from the Medical Center in Bowling Green as an Ultrasound technician. Throughout her life, Mary was known for her love of her family, friends, and her dogs throughout the years. She was very involved through the years with First Christian Church and in 2018 she earned her certificate in Theological Education by Extension Education for Ministry from University of the South, School of Theology. She had passions for cooking, knitting, and sharing stories of times past. Mary was very involved in her knitting group and her Ya-Ya’s and Yahoo’s. She was known by many throughout the years for the pregnancy ultrasounds that she had done always getting that foot picture, the missing baby Jesus’, and her laughter.
She will be dearly missed by her sisters Betty Martin of Bowling Green, KY and Dolly (Donald) Tanner of Concord, NC, her son Thomas McLean, granddaughter, Camille McLean, nieces and nephews; Linlee Langston, Linnet Langston, Kristin Benjamin, Sara Bailey, Howard Langston and Joshua Tanner, as well as many great and great-great nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her mother and father as well as her sister Nancy Lanston and brother Michael McKnight, and all her beloved dogs.
A memorial service/celebration of life will be held on 6/7/2024 at JC Kirby funeral home on Broadway. All friends and family are invited to attend and pay their respects on 6/6/2024 and/or attended the service 6/7/2024, times to be announced later.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Bowling Green/Warren County Humane Society in memory of Mary Christine McKnight.
“I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight, that to somebody’s need made me blind.
But I never have yet had a twinge of regret, for being a little too kind.”– Poet C. R. Gibson
