Kathleen Flood Mackie, 95, passed away peacefully August 19, 2017 at the home of her daughter with family at her bedside. She was born February 25, 1922 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of Charles and Catherine Mitchell Flood.
Educated in Toronto, Kathleen came to Washington, D.C. in 1940 to work for the British Admiralty Delegation. She met and married John C. Mackie, an American Army Air Corps officer, in 1943. They were married for 64 years, until his death in 2008.
Kay was a member of St. James Episcopal Church for over 50 years and in later years alternated attendance with Little Fork Church. She was an early and ardent supporter of the Fauquier Maternity Clinic, Head Start, the Fauquier SPCA and the Fauquier Free Clinic. She was a long-time member of the Warrenton Garden Club and took great pleasure in her gardens at Lomar Farm. She was a student of art and exhibited her paintings in Virginia and Florida. She was a wide reader and prolific writer. A world-wide traveler with her husband, she shared her experiences with essays for journals of the church, the garden club, several needlework organizations and the Valentine Museum.
She was a judge for the U.S. Figure Skating Assn. and used that experience to create judging certification programs for the National Academy of Needlearts and the American Needlework Guild. In 1983 she wrote the book “A Practical Guide for Judges of Embroidery”, still the standard work in the field. She taught stitching and judging seminars at national meetings and at the Valentine. Kathleen was awarded the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award by NAN for her contributions to the needle arts. For many years she owned and operated a studio at Lomar Farm, Warrenton Needlepointers, where she was a teacher, designer, stitcher, lecturer and judge. Locally, she taught children’s and adult classes at the studio and for the Fauquier Parks Dept. and served as a needlework judge for the Fauquier Fair. She spearheaded the kneeler project for St. James Church and personally stitched or designed many of the kneelers.
Kathleen is survived by three daughters, Virginia Anne Burhans and husband Nicholas P. Burhans, Dr. Margaret Mackie Sanders, and Lora Jane Mackie, as well as three grandsons, Dr.
John Mackie Sanders, Dr. Warren Currie Mackie-Jenkins, and William Lee Mackie-Jenkins.
A funeral service will be held at St. James Episcopal Church, 73 Cupeper St., Warrenton, VA 20186 at 10 am on Friday, August 25th, with reception following in the fellowship hall and interment at The Burying Ground of Historic Little Fork Church.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Fauquier SPCA.
Educated in Toronto, Kathleen came to Washington, D.C. in 1940 to work for the British Admiralty Delegation. She met and married John C. Mackie, an American Army Air Corps officer, in 1943. They were married for 64 years, until his death in 2008.
Kay was a member of St. James Episcopal Church for over 50 years and in later years alternated attendance with Little Fork Church. She was an early and ardent supporter of the Fauquier Maternity Clinic, Head Start, the Fauquier SPCA and the Fauquier Free Clinic. She was a long-time member of the Warrenton Garden Club and took great pleasure in her gardens at Lomar Farm. She was a student of art and exhibited her paintings in Virginia and Florida. She was a wide reader and prolific writer. A world-wide traveler with her husband, she shared her experiences with essays for journals of the church, the garden club, several needlework organizations and the Valentine Museum.
She was a judge for the U.S. Figure Skating Assn. and used that experience to create judging certification programs for the National Academy of Needlearts and the American Needlework Guild. In 1983 she wrote the book “A Practical Guide for Judges of Embroidery”, still the standard work in the field. She taught stitching and judging seminars at national meetings and at the Valentine. Kathleen was awarded the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award by NAN for her contributions to the needle arts. For many years she owned and operated a studio at Lomar Farm, Warrenton Needlepointers, where she was a teacher, designer, stitcher, lecturer and judge. Locally, she taught children’s and adult classes at the studio and for the Fauquier Parks Dept. and served as a needlework judge for the Fauquier Fair. She spearheaded the kneeler project for St. James Church and personally stitched or designed many of the kneelers.
Kathleen is survived by three daughters, Virginia Anne Burhans and husband Nicholas P. Burhans, Dr. Margaret Mackie Sanders, and Lora Jane Mackie, as well as three grandsons, Dr.
John Mackie Sanders, Dr. Warren Currie Mackie-Jenkins, and William Lee Mackie-Jenkins.
A funeral service will be held at St. James Episcopal Church, 73 Cupeper St., Warrenton, VA 20186 at 10 am on Friday, August 25th, with reception following in the fellowship hall and interment at The Burying Ground of Historic Little Fork Church.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Fauquier SPCA.
Kathleen Flood Mackie, 95, passed away peacefully August 19, 2017 at the home of her daughter with family at her bedside. She was born February 25, 1922 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the daughter of Charles and Catherine Mitchell Flood.
Educated in Toronto, Kathleen came to Washington, D.C. in 1940 to work for the British Admiralty Delegation. She met and married John C. Mackie, an American Army Air Corps officer, in 1943. They were married for 64 years, until his death in 2008.
Kay was a member of St. James Episcopal Church for over 50 years and in later years alternated attendance with Little Fork Church. She was an early and ardent supporter of the Fauquier Maternity Clinic, Head Start, the Fauquier SPCA and the Fauquier Free Clinic. She was a long-time member of the Warrenton Garden Club and took great pleasure in her gardens at Lomar Farm. She was a student of art and exhibited her paintings in Virginia and Florida. She was a wide reader and prolific writer. A world-wide traveler with her husband, she shared her experiences with essays for journals of the church, the garden club, several needlework organizations and the Valentine Museum.
She was a judge for the U.S. Figure Skating Assn. and used that experience to create judging certification programs for the National Academy of Needlearts and the American Needlework Guild. In 1983 she wrote the book “A Practical Guide for Judges of Embroidery”, still the standard work in the field. She taught stitching and judging seminars at national meetings and at the Valentine. Kathleen was awarded the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award by NAN for her contributions to the needle arts. For many years she owned and operated a studio at Lomar Farm, Warrenton Needlepointers, where she was a teacher, designer, stitcher, lecturer and judge. Locally, she taught children’s and adult classes at the studio and for the Fauquier Parks Dept. and served as a needlework judge for the Fauquier Fair. She spearheaded the kneeler project for St. James Church and personally stitched or designed many of the kneelers.
Kathleen is survived by three daughters, Virginia Anne Burhans and husband Nicholas P. Burhans, Dr. Margaret Mackie Sanders, and Lora Jane Mackie, as well as three grandsons, Dr.
John Mackie Sanders, Dr. Warren Currie Mackie-Jenkins, and William Lee Mackie-Jenkins.
A funeral service will be held at St. James Episcopal Church, 73 Cupeper St., Warrenton, VA 20186 at 10 am on Friday, August 25th, with reception following in the fellowship hall and interment at The Burying Ground of Historic Little Fork Church.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Fauquier SPCA.
Educated in Toronto, Kathleen came to Washington, D.C. in 1940 to work for the British Admiralty Delegation. She met and married John C. Mackie, an American Army Air Corps officer, in 1943. They were married for 64 years, until his death in 2008.
Kay was a member of St. James Episcopal Church for over 50 years and in later years alternated attendance with Little Fork Church. She was an early and ardent supporter of the Fauquier Maternity Clinic, Head Start, the Fauquier SPCA and the Fauquier Free Clinic. She was a long-time member of the Warrenton Garden Club and took great pleasure in her gardens at Lomar Farm. She was a student of art and exhibited her paintings in Virginia and Florida. She was a wide reader and prolific writer. A world-wide traveler with her husband, she shared her experiences with essays for journals of the church, the garden club, several needlework organizations and the Valentine Museum.
She was a judge for the U.S. Figure Skating Assn. and used that experience to create judging certification programs for the National Academy of Needlearts and the American Needlework Guild. In 1983 she wrote the book “A Practical Guide for Judges of Embroidery”, still the standard work in the field. She taught stitching and judging seminars at national meetings and at the Valentine. Kathleen was awarded the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award by NAN for her contributions to the needle arts. For many years she owned and operated a studio at Lomar Farm, Warrenton Needlepointers, where she was a teacher, designer, stitcher, lecturer and judge. Locally, she taught children’s and adult classes at the studio and for the Fauquier Parks Dept. and served as a needlework judge for the Fauquier Fair. She spearheaded the kneeler project for St. James Church and personally stitched or designed many of the kneelers.
Kathleen is survived by three daughters, Virginia Anne Burhans and husband Nicholas P. Burhans, Dr. Margaret Mackie Sanders, and Lora Jane Mackie, as well as three grandsons, Dr.
John Mackie Sanders, Dr. Warren Currie Mackie-Jenkins, and William Lee Mackie-Jenkins.
A funeral service will be held at St. James Episcopal Church, 73 Cupeper St., Warrenton, VA 20186 at 10 am on Friday, August 25th, with reception following in the fellowship hall and interment at The Burying Ground of Historic Little Fork Church.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Fauquier SPCA.
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