Charles Phillip Mackey, 87, was born on the family farm on December 16, 1935 in Rome, Missouri to Jack B. Mackey and Eunice G. (Newton) Mackey. He passed from this life on December 15, 2023 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He married Lena Gayle Worrell in July 1958. They had four children in Springfield, Missouri where he worked in the grocery store business until moving to Chickasha in 1966. Charles was employed as a salesman and owned various manufacturing businesses until getting involved in real estate property after his wife’s Gayle’s death in 2003.
Charles was preceded in death by both parents; sisters Marilyn Mackey and Colleen Jenkins; and daughter Pamela Jean Mackey Krieger.
Loved ones left to remember Charles are his daughter, Cheryl Hartsell and husband Hank of Edmond; sons, Christopher A. Mackey and partner Holly Frailly of Ohio and Steven P. Mackey of Chickasha; grandson, Zachary Miller of Edmond; granddaughters, Sara Krieger Ramsey and husband Nathanof Chickasha, Kelsie Krieger Garcia and husband Chris of Abilene TX, Karyn Krieger Kirksey and husband CJ of Oklahoma City, Betsy Hartsell Mobley and husband Jeremy of Edmond, Jenny Hartsell Puckett and husband Jimmie of Oklahoma City; four great-grandsons, Conner and Kailenn Lange of Chickasha, and Thatcher and Bracken Mobley of Edmond; and three great-granddaughters, Eliza Wren Garcia of Abilene, Raylee Ramsey of Chickasha, and Billie Puckett of Oklahoma City.
Cremation arrangements are under the direction of Ferguson Funeral Home.