Beckham CO OK - Obit for Darrell Mackey

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   Services  for  Darrell  Mackey  will be at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, at the
   Sayre  Church  of  Christ,  officiated by Kevin Ballard. Internment in
   Berlin  Cemetery,  Berlin,  Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Services are
   under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral service in Sayre.
   Darrell  Earnest Mackey was born February 17, 1925 south of Berlin, to
   Alice  Emma and Paul Finice Mackey and died Friday November 9, 2001 at
   the Great Plains Medical Center in Elk City, at the age of 76 years.
   Darrell  grew  up  in  the Berlin community where he helped his family
   farm and attended the Berlin School until November 1944 when he joined
   the  Navy.  He  served in both the Phillippine Liberation Campaign and
   the  Asiatic  Pacific  Campaign, and then returned home to finish high
   school  at  the  close  of World War II in 1946. Darrell married Lovel
   Mackey  on  Feburary 11, 1949. For 38 years they lived six miles north
   of  Sayre  in  the  family home in which Darrell had helped his father
   build.  In  1987 Darrell and Lovell moved to Sayre after retiring from
   farming and ranching for over 45 years.
   Darrell  became a member of the Sayre Church of Christ in 1950 and was
   an active member throughout the remainder of his life.
   He  was  preceded  in  death  by  his parents, one brother, Dale "Tud"
   Mackey and one sister, Earnestine Jewel Buchannan.
   Surivivors  include his wife, Lowell Mackey of the home; Bob Mackey of
   Sayre;  Danell  Mackey  Rosenauer  and  husband Johnnie of Pleasanton,
   Texas;  Paul Mackey and wife, Nancy of Tulsa, OK; and Danny Mackey ofe
   Tulsa, OK; six grandchildren and one great granddaughter.