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Rogers Co. Obit for: David McKenzie
Submitted to the Rogers County Oklahoma Archives 
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Rogers County Archivist: Bill Cook, wcook14024@aol.com
Date: 4/30/2002               by: Bill Cook, wcook14024@aol.com
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Originally published on Saturday 20 April 

McKenzie rites set Monday

David McKenzie died Thursday, April 18, 2002, doing what he loved - flying. 
Services for the Claremore Regional Airport operator will be 11:30 a.m. Monday 
at First Baptist Church, 
where he and his family have been active members since their move to the area. 
Burial will follow at Floral 
Haven Cemetery in Broken Arrow, under the direction of Rice Funeral Service. 
McKenzie was born February 24, 1948, in Fullerton, Calif., the son of Carl O. 
and Olga Warch 
McKenzie. His passion for flying emerged at an early age. His father had been a 
B17 bombadier during 
the war and his father's best friend, David, was a pilot who was shot down 
before his birth. 
McKenzie earned his pilot's license even before he got his driver's license. 
After graduation from Fullerton Union High School in 1966, he attended Fullerton 
State College and then 
Westmont College. He served in the California, Texas and Oklahoma Air National 
Guards, flying A7's, 
F101's and other military aircraft. Though he was a fighter pilot for many 
years, he spent one year as aide-
de-camp to the California Air National Guard Adjutant General in Sacramento. 
He retired as a major after 21 years of military service. 
He began a career with Continental Airlines after he had served in the Guard for 
several years. His 
experience in flying made him one of the companies most accomplished airline 
pilots, flying 727's, 737's 
and A 300 Airbus. He also worked in management for Continental and was an 
instructor in their training 
department. With the airline the past 25 years he was one of Continental's 
assistant chief pilots and at the 
same time he was managing the Claremore Regional Airport - a position he took on 
two years ago. 
A move from California to Houston provided David the opportunity to meet Sheri 
Feeley, a California 
native and Continental flight attendant. On Feb. 3, 1979 they were married in 
Laguna Hills, Calif. 
Houston was their home briefly before returning to California. 
McKenzie's career took the family many places through the years, but most 
recently between Oklahoma 
and Texas. Living in Rogers County was a family choice, McKenzie always said. 
Six years ago they 
moved to the rural community of Inola, developing a family ranch for much of the 
McKenzie family. 
Flying was more than a career for McKenzie. It was his favorite - maybe 
exclusive - hobby. When not 
in the air, he made time for his priorities of being a devoted son, husband and 
father, and friend to 
everyone he met. 
Survivors are his wife, Sheri, and children Jennifer and Carl, all of the home 
in Inola; mother, Olga 
McKenzie of Broken Arrow; sister, Diane Haspell of Inola; aunt, Joanne 
Bullmaster of Broken Arrow; 
niece and nephew, J.C. and Calynn Haspell, both of Inola; mother and father-in-
law, Bob and Alice 
Russell; and brothers-in-law, Ron, Jim and Mike Feeley. He was preceded in death 
by his father, Carl O. 
McKenzie.  
  
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We thank the Claremore Progess Newspaper for allowing us to post these obits on
the Rogers Co., OK USGenwebpages
http://www.claremoreprogress.com/
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