NAME: RAY EDWARD MACKEY, AGE 75, OF ATOKA, OK

BORN: JANUARY 3, 1930 AT BENTLEY, OKLA. TO LAWRENCE ALFRED AND MARGARET RAMEY (BRISCO) MACKEY.

PASSED AWAY: SATURDAY , MAY 7, 2005 AT THE ST. JOHNS MEDICAL CENTER IN TULSA, OK.

AGE: 75 YEARS 4 MONTHS AND 4 DAYS

EDUCATION: ATTENDED GRADE SCHOOL AT ATOKA, GRADUATING FROM TISHOMINGO HIGH SCHOOL IN 1946, AND ATTENDED SOCORRO MINING COLLEGE IN SOCCORO, NM. WHERE HE STUDIED MATHEMATICS.

MARRIED: ALICE MORRIS ON DECEMBER 17, 1949 AT MESILLA PARK, NM.

OCCUPATION: RAY WORKED FROM 1952 UNTIL 1977 AT THE WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE IN NEW MEXICO AND 2 YEARS FOR NASA IN HOUSTON. HE WAS A RANGE CONTROL MANAGER. AFTER MOVING BACK TO ATOKA HE WORKED FOR AMIS MATERIALS IN STRINGTOWN AS OFFICE MANAGER AND BOOK KEEPER.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: RAY WAS A FORMER MEMBER OF THE BENTLEY BAPTIST CHURCH, AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE HILLCREST BAPTIST CHURCH.

RAY LOVED CARPENTRY WORK AND BUILDING, HUNTING AND FISHING, AND CARING FOR HIS GRANDCHILDREN.

SURVIVED BY

WIFE: ALICE MACKEY OF THE HOME.

CHILDREN: ESTELLEEN LINDSEY AND HUSBAND TOMMY OF STERLING CITY, TX.

TIM MACKEY AND WIFE NOLA OF PHILLIPS, OK.

JACKIE SCOTT AND HUSBAND CHARLIE OF BIG LAKE, TX.

DEBBIE MERRITT OF DURANT, OK.

CECIL MACKEY AND WIFE TAMMY OF ATOKA, OK.

BROTHERS: LAWRENCE JUNIOR MACKEY AND WIFE PAT OF SALEM, NM.

J. T. MACKEY OF OKLAHOMA CITY.

SISTERS: WANDA PIPPIN OF DUNCAN, OK.

VIRGINIA REASOR AND HUSBAND LOWELL OF ATOKA, OK.

GLENNETTE CHILDERS OF OKLAHOMA CITY.

18 GRANDCHILDREN AND 20 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

PARENTS: LAWRENCE ALFRED AND MARGARET MACKEY.

DAUGHTER: JUDITH ANN MACKEY.

GRANDCHILDREN: TAMMY GAY MACKEY AND CHRISTOPHER CHARLES SCOTT.

SISTER: SHIRLEY BOCK.

BROTHERS: GENE AUSTIN AND JERRY LYNN MACKEY.

SON IN-LAW: LARRY MERRITT.

DATE OF SERVICES: WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2005 AT 10:00 AM.

PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK.

INTERMENT: GREEN MEADOWS CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, OK.

OFFICIATING: REV. CLINTON THURMAN.

ASSISTING: REV. JOHN HOWARD.

CASKETBEARERS: TIMITHY RAY MACKEY JR., MATTHEW CAMPBELL, TOMMY LINDSEY JR., JACK MERRILL JR., STONEY MERRILL, SHANNON REECE.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: JAKE SCOTT, RICK PAGE, MIKE TAYLOR JR., DAVID MILAM.