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Jackey White One Family - 110 Years
of Service
by Jane Bromley
he remembers his He met his wife Joyce at LHS.
childhood fondly. They married the summer after
graduation. Joyce worked many
After high school, years as a seamstress at Cagle’s
Jackey went to work Furniture, making draperies. The
for Bell Dairy for couple had one daughter, Denise,
a few years and who had one daughter, Lenzi,
then the highway who recently gave Jackey and
department, Joyce their first great-grandchild,
“building roads all Carson. Jackey worked for the
around Lubbock”. highway department from 1957
He was drafted - 1993, except for the two years
in July 1959 and he devoted to Uncle Sam, and
was sent to Fort retired after 30 years at the age
Ord, California for of 57.
basic training. The
peacetime soldier Jackey White describes his life as
spent the next two pretty unremarkable, but there
years at Fort Belvoir, is one thing about his family that
Virginia in a map- he is very proud of: his siblings
making battalion. amassed a substantial history
(The Army Map of service to our country. Big
Service (AMS) brother Auzie enlisted in the
irst came Auzie, then was the military Marines in 1949 and served for
Charley, then twins, cartographic agency of the 25 years. The supply sergeant’s
FMackey and Jackey; finally, Department of Defense from 1941 career began in Korea, and his
a girl, Sue, followed by another to 1968.) “There were only three last tour was in Vietnam. Charlie
set of twins, Lonnie and Donnie. [map-making battalions] in the enlisted in the Marines and
More on them later. whole U.S. Army and only one served for four years. One of his
in the continental US. We spent a tours overlapped with Auzie’s
This is Jackey’s story. The lot of time looking at stars, using time in Korea. Mackey enlisted in
middle son of seven was born to triangulation and elevation and the Navy and served two years
Lonnie and Lela White in 1936 developing topographical maps.” during peacetime aboard an
in Ladonia (Fannin County), (The AMS was also involved in aircraft carrier.
Texas. The whole bunch moved the preparation of extraterrestrial
to Lubbock in 1950 where Jackey maps of satellite Jackey
attended OL Slaton Junior High and planetary interrupted
and graduated from Lubbock bodies.) “It his account to
High School in 1954. was very tell this story:
technical and “When we were
Those seven kids grew up on fascinating.” kids, our mama
farms, chopping cotton and After being would order
picking cotton. “We didn’t pull discharged, our clothes
the bolls; we left the burrs. Jackey served from the Sears
You’d get in trouble if your 25 more years catalog. One
sack had burrs in it.” With six in the Army year, when we
boys and only one girl, Jackey's Reserves. were about
parents had lots of rules, but seven or eight
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