Darrell Mackey

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

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.

Survivors 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.