SALEM - Orval Mackey, age 82, of Salem, Oregon, died of natural causes on July 21, 2011.
Son of Fred Mackey and Polly Archer, Orval, was born in Decatur, Nebraska on July 27, 1928. He was one of eight siblings. In 1940 his family moved from Nebraska to Oregon. Orval attended North Salem High School and during this time he met his lifelong love and wife of 63 years, Edris Stewart. They married on November 28, 1947.
Orval was Co-owner of Mackey and Noland Masonry, and completed hundreds of commercial masonry projects throughout the Willamette Valley in its 30 years of operation.
Retired at 49 years of age, Orval pursued his love of golf, fishing and hunting. He was a long-time member at Santiam Golf Course. Orval lived a full life and was most known by his friends and family for his extreme kindness and witty sense of humor.
Of all of his great accomplishments, his greatest was that of husband and father and he will be deeply missed by all of us. He is survived by his wife, Edris Mackey, his brothers John Mackey and Lyle Mackey, his son, Ronald Mackey, his daughters, Teresa Willsey and Tracy Posey, and his six grandchildren David Mackey, Shaun Mackey, Jessica Mackey, Allyson Willsey, Kenny Willsey, and Colton Posey.
A viewing, open to family and friends, will be at Virgil T. Golden Funeral Service on Tuesday, July 26th from 9 to 11 a.m. Graveside services, reserved for family, will be held on July 26th at 1:00 p.m. at Aumsville Cemetery.
Published in the Salem, Oregon Statesman Journal on July 24, 2011.
Son of Fred Mackey and Polly Archer, Orval, was born in Decatur, Nebraska on July 27, 1928. He was one of eight siblings. In 1940 his family moved from Nebraska to Oregon. Orval attended North Salem High School and during this time he met his lifelong love and wife of 63 years, Edris Stewart. They married on November 28, 1947.
Orval was Co-owner of Mackey and Noland Masonry, and completed hundreds of commercial masonry projects throughout the Willamette Valley in its 30 years of operation.
Retired at 49 years of age, Orval pursued his love of golf, fishing and hunting. He was a long-time member at Santiam Golf Course. Orval lived a full life and was most known by his friends and family for his extreme kindness and witty sense of humor.
Of all of his great accomplishments, his greatest was that of husband and father and he will be deeply missed by all of us. He is survived by his wife, Edris Mackey, his brothers John Mackey and Lyle Mackey, his son, Ronald Mackey, his daughters, Teresa Willsey and Tracy Posey, and his six grandchildren David Mackey, Shaun Mackey, Jessica Mackey, Allyson Willsey, Kenny Willsey, and Colton Posey.
A viewing, open to family and friends, will be at Virgil T. Golden Funeral Service on Tuesday, July 26th from 9 to 11 a.m. Graveside services, reserved for family, will be held on July 26th at 1:00 p.m. at Aumsville Cemetery.
Published in the Salem, Oregon Statesman Journal on July 24, 2011.
SALEM - Orval Mackey, age 82, of Salem, Oregon, died of natural causes on July 21, 2011.
Son of Fred Mackey and Polly Archer, Orval, was born in Decatur, Nebraska on July 27, 1928. He was one of eight siblings. In 1940 his family moved from Nebraska to Oregon. Orval attended North Salem High School and during this time he met his lifelong love and wife of 63 years, Edris Stewart. They married on November 28, 1947.
Orval was Co-owner of Mackey and Noland Masonry, and completed hundreds of commercial masonry projects throughout the Willamette Valley in its 30 years of operation.
Retired at 49 years of age, Orval pursued his love of golf, fishing and hunting. He was a long-time member at Santiam Golf Course. Orval lived a full life and was most known by his friends and family for his extreme kindness and witty sense of humor.
Of all of his great accomplishments, his greatest was that of husband and father and he will be deeply missed by all of us. He is survived by his wife, Edris Mackey, his brothers John Mackey and Lyle Mackey, his son, Ronald Mackey, his daughters, Teresa Willsey and Tracy Posey, and his six grandchildren David Mackey, Shaun Mackey, Jessica Mackey, Allyson Willsey, Kenny Willsey, and Colton Posey.
A viewing, open to family and friends, will be at Virgil T. Golden Funeral Service on Tuesday, July 26th from 9 to 11 a.m. Graveside services, reserved for family, will be held on July 26th at 1:00 p.m. at Aumsville Cemetery.
Published in the Salem, Oregon Statesman Journal on July 24, 2011.
Son of Fred Mackey and Polly Archer, Orval, was born in Decatur, Nebraska on July 27, 1928. He was one of eight siblings. In 1940 his family moved from Nebraska to Oregon. Orval attended North Salem High School and during this time he met his lifelong love and wife of 63 years, Edris Stewart. They married on November 28, 1947.
Orval was Co-owner of Mackey and Noland Masonry, and completed hundreds of commercial masonry projects throughout the Willamette Valley in its 30 years of operation.
Retired at 49 years of age, Orval pursued his love of golf, fishing and hunting. He was a long-time member at Santiam Golf Course. Orval lived a full life and was most known by his friends and family for his extreme kindness and witty sense of humor.
Of all of his great accomplishments, his greatest was that of husband and father and he will be deeply missed by all of us. He is survived by his wife, Edris Mackey, his brothers John Mackey and Lyle Mackey, his son, Ronald Mackey, his daughters, Teresa Willsey and Tracy Posey, and his six grandchildren David Mackey, Shaun Mackey, Jessica Mackey, Allyson Willsey, Kenny Willsey, and Colton Posey.
A viewing, open to family and friends, will be at Virgil T. Golden Funeral Service on Tuesday, July 26th from 9 to 11 a.m. Graveside services, reserved for family, will be held on July 26th at 1:00 p.m. at Aumsville Cemetery.
Published in the Salem, Oregon Statesman Journal on July 24, 2011.
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