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Verna Ellen Mac Kay
Verna E. (Rambo) Mac Kay,
82, died Sunday
morning, March 16, 2003 at the Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in
Melrose, MA. Mrs. Mac
Kay had lived in Malden well
over 50 years
and was previously from Darby,
PA. Verna worked as a cafeteria worker, while raising her
five children, working at the Linden School cafeteria and later at the central
kitchen on Pearl St. in Malden
and later transferred to the Malden High School's new
kitchen. She worked
for City of Malden for 25 years. Verna was a longtime
member of the Christ United Methodist Church and was an active
member serving as secretary
and treasure of the women's club and
a Sunday school teacher. Verna was educated in Upper Darby, PA school system. After high school Verna entered into the Brown Prep School in Philadelphia, PA for a year. She later received her Registered Nurse training from Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, on September 1940. While at the hospital she was an assistant supervisor of nurses in the Pediatric Ward. In May of 1944 Verna signed on as a Reserve Nurse for the Army Nurses Corps and enter active duty on May 5, 1944 at the Station Hospital Ft. George G. Meade, Maryland. Later in 1944 she was stationed at Indiantown Gap Military Base, PA. While there she met and later married her husband Staff Sgt. Roland E. Mac Kay on Sept. 2, 1944. On October 25, 1944 she reported for duty and was assigned to the 126th. Evacuation Hospital, Camp Van Dorn, MS. On Dec. 22, 1944 she shipped out to the United Kingdom and was assigned to the 117th General Hospital, one day later she was reassigned to the 126th. Evacuation Hospital with the Army Nurse Corps. While there she performed general medical and surgical nursing of the sick and injured, at some of the prisoners of war & concentration camps after they were liberated from the Germans. Verna was discharged on November 27, 1945 as a Second Lieutenant US Army Nurses Corps. She is survived by her son's Donald R. Mac
Kay of Revere, Charles R.
Mac Kay of Malden,
Wayne Mac Kay of
Melrose, Douglas
A. Mac Kay of
Concord, NH and her
daughter, Wendy A.
Mac Kay of Malden,
her sister Elizabeth
"Midge" LLoyd
of Aldan, PA
and her nephew & niece David
and Ellen Lloyd both of PA.
Also survived by four grandchildren
& two great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Roland E. Mac Kay,
her father Charles Rambo, and her mother Ethel Hauer. She was born April 5, 1920 in Philadelphia, PA the daughter of late Charles and Ethel (Hauer) Rambo. Visitation will be held at the Weir- MacCuish Golden Rule
Funeral Home, 144 Salem St. Malden,
on Tuesday from 4-8 PM. Contributions in Verna's memory maybe made to the Christ United Methodist Church Memorial Fund, 577 Salem St., Malden, MA 02148. Funeral service will be held on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at 10:00 A.M. at the Weir MacCuish Funeral Home. The Rev. Ruth R. Oduor of Christ United Methodist Church will be officiating. Burial will be in the Forest Dale Cemetery WW II veterans section with her husband. |
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