Jessie Sterling Mackey

1915 - 2009  (94 years)

• Name	Jessie Sterling Mackey  [1, 2]
  Birth	23 Mar 1915	Stanwood, Cedar, Iowa, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  _MILT	Abt 1942  [3, 4]
  	US Army - WWII: Taught airplane engine repair in the Army at Amarillo, Texas
  		Poster - WWII
  Census	1950	Plainfield, Bremer, Iowa, USA   [2]
  	Relation to Head: Son-in-law of Blanche Thompson; Marital Status: Married to Fern
  Death	27 May 2009	Plainfield, Bremer, Iowa, USA   [1]
  Burial	Willow Lawn Cemetery, Plainfield, Bremer, Iowa, USA   [3]
  	Fern Annis and Jessie Mackay, buried together
  		Grave-MACKEY Fern and Sterling
  Person ID	I9250	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family	Fern Madeline Annis,   b. 6 Sep 1913, Plainfield, Bremer, Iowa, USA d. 13 Nov 1986, Plainfield, Bremer, Iowa, USA (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	19 Oct 1943	Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa, USA   [1]
  Family ID	F3154	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 23 Mar 1915 - Stanwood, Cedar, Iowa, USA Marriage - 19 Oct 1943 - Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa, USA Census - Relation to Head: Son-in-law of Blanche Thompson; Marital Status: Married to Fern - 1950 - Plainfield, Bremer, Iowa, USA Death - 27 May 2009 - Plainfield, Bremer, Iowa, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms and Icons

  Poster - WWII

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for Fern Madaline Annis http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=18107442936&indiv=try [S1] Ancestry.com, 1950 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;), United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Plainfield, Bremer,. 1950 United States Federal Census [S863] Find a Grave: Sterling Jessie Mackey, Sterling Jessie Mackey Birth 23 Mar 1915, Stanwood, Cedar County, Iowa, USA Death 27 May 2009 (aged 94) Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa, USA Burial Willow Lawn Cemetery, Plainfield, Bremer County, Iowa, USA Memorial ID 37587983. Jessie Sterling Mackey was born March 23, 1915 in Stanwood, Iowa, the son of Homer and Anna Mae Newberry Mackey. He attended school in Stanwood until 1931, when his family moved to nearby Olin, Iowa. Sterling completed high school in Olin, graduating as the class president of the Olin High School class of 1933. Following graduation, Sterling worked as a mechanic at Taylor Garage in Olin. He enlisted in the U.S. Army shortly after the start of World War II, during which he taught airplane engine repair in Amarillo, Texas. On October 19, 1943, he was united in marriage to Fern Annis at the Little Brown Church in Nashua Iowa. In 1948, Sterling moved to Plainfield, where he owned and operated Mackey's Garage for nearly 30 years. He closed the shop in order to care for his ailing wife Fern, for whom he cared until her death in 1986. Sterling remained at his home in Plainfield until becoming a resident at Bartels in May of 2009. Sterling enjoyed collecting and working on old musical instruments, playing th https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37587983/sterling-jessie-mackey [S864] Fold3: Jessie S Mackey, http://www.fold3.com/page/84608975_. Military Service World War II Branch:Army Enlistment Date:23 Oct 1942 Army Branch:Medical Administrative Corps - For Officers only Army Serial Number:17069810 Enlistment Place:Cp Dodge Herrold Iowa Enlistment Term:Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law Source of Army Personnel:Civil Life http://www.fold3.com/page/84608975_?xid=1945