Margaret Kay Kearney Pope was a 59-year-old white woman from the Tulsa area whose life was rooted in family, work, and the small rituals of rural Oklahoma. Born in Rotan, Texas on January 25, 1948, she moved as a toddler with her parents, Howard K. and Thelma Aline Kearney, to the town of Inola, where she grew up and finished school. In high school she was crowned Hay Day Queen, a small-town honor that hinted at how easily she connected with people and how comfortable she seemed in the center of
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