Don Mackey:
CLASS OF 1968
Burlington High SchoolClass of 1968
Burlington, IA
Western Illinois UniversityClass of 1989
Macomb, IL
Horace Mann Middle SchoolClass of 1965
Burlington, IA
Don's Story
Life
Judy and I are now retired, we got off the road 3yrs ago, I work parttime at hyvee wine and spirits, been there for 3 yrs, i retired Jan 12 judy will sept 13 living in Davenport now will celebrate our 44th wedding ann in Dec, gone on 3 cruises and getting ready to go again in Nov, lots of fun and love the sea. been to mexico and bahamas going to mexico again...hope to see all at renion this month....
Judy and I are working for NASCAR marketing, travel from coast to coast from Feb -- Nov. We are now working for the Air Force and touring the Orange County Chopper that was built for the air Force on TV on American Choppper, We have 3 kids and 5 grand kids, the oldest g-kid is 18. Will be celebrating our 39th Anniversary in DEC 08. we call home Davenport, IA and Oakboro, NC, our race shop, Wood Bros/JTG racing, #21 in the Cup, #47, #59 in the Busch, and #21, #20 trucks are our teams, is in Harrisburg, NC
College
I went back to college, Western Illinois U, in 88 and graduated with a BA in Dec 89. I drove from Burlingto...Expand for more
n to Macomb everyday, had 8am classes every semester, The best thing was I doubled my HS GPA 1.9(not cool) to a 3.85, made Deans list and honors....Rat, Lewis, Pease and Mr Grant and Tack and Mr Hoffman would have been pleased.
Military
I spent 3 yrs in the Army, then I spent 19 yrs in the Army Reserves, while in the Reserves I got to visit 38 states and 23 Foreign countries...I retired from the military in 1995 as a MasterSergeant, E-8. We spent the last year working with the Air Force Show car and have been working with NASCAR Marketing for 7 yrs, 2008 - now we are stilll in Marketing with the Air Force but have the OCC Chopper that was built for the air force on American Chopper now and am touring the country with it, our trip to Alaska got canceled in 08 but next year they are gonna reschedule it and we maybe going to Hawaii during the same trip to visit air bases there. They are talking about going to England and Europe to visit the air bases there also in 2years we got our passports ready so I am hoping that comes to pass.
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