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Lampasas Record May 6, 1937 Thursday

Mrs. A.J. Mackey passed away Thursday morning, May 6, at 1:05 o'clock at her home on South Grand Avenue, where she had lived for the past many years. She had been in failing health for several months, but had been confined to her bed for only a little more than a week when the end came.

Miss Mary Helen Rose was born in Macon County, Missouri February 15, 1857, came to Texas with her parents when she was just a small child and had lived in this state more than the allotted three score and ten years of life. She was graduated from Salado College where she studied music along with her literary course.

May 9, 1881 she was married to Augustus Jones Mackey and a few years later they moved to Burnet county, Burnet and Lampasas counties having been their home for almost 55 years. They lived on a farm at Kempner for quite a while and some thirty years ago, moved to Lampasas. This has since been her home.

Mrs. Mackey was one of the best read women in this section. She kept abreast of the times and could converse knowingly along most any line. She had given a great deal of her life to church and Sunday School work, having been a member of the Baptist church since she was a very young girl. Having completed all the courses offered by the Sunday School board of the church, she held the Convention diploma, an accomplishment that few people, except ministers, achieve. She had the distinction of being the only woman to have her name read out in Convention Hall several years ago as a result of her achievements along this line.

Many years of her life were given to Sunday School teaching and in W.M.U. work, and literally hundreds of lives have been influenced for good under her direction and the Christian example of her great life. She was always interested in the old Baptist church building, as well as the activities of the church itself, and a few weeks ago had the pleasure of being at the program of the opening of the corner stone after the burning of the building.

Mrs. Mackey was affectionately known as "Mother Mackey" to most of her friends. She loved people and people who knew her loved her. Fortunate are all who were permitted to know her as a friend.

Surviving the deceased are her six children: Mrs. J.D. Pickett, Palestine; Mrs. E. Bevis, Granite, Okla; John Mackey, Wortham; Gordon Mackey, Temple; Wayne Mackey, Santa Barbara, Calif; A. J. Mackey, Flagstaff, Ariz. All the children are here except Wayne Mackey who was unable to come. There are fourteen grandchildren.

She also leaves five sisters and two brothers: Mrs. T.R. Russell, Salado; Mrs. Levi Anderson, Killeen; Mrs. Forrest Maddox, Weatherford, Okla.; Mrs. George Perry, Devol; Mrs. Rigsby Barclay, Temple; A. R. Rose, Temple; and Seymour Rose, Salado. Funeral services will be held at the home Friday morning at 10 o'clock and burial will follow in Oak Hill cemetery.