Monogrammed Brick Stories
Brick: Berry, Alice, Hope Mackey
Contributed by Jane Berry Marcellus
Born on a farm near Okemah in 1918, Alice Mackey moved to Oklahoma City in 1935. Unable to attend college because of the Great Depression, she paid her way through secretarial school with money earned managing her family's pecan crop. She worked for Renard's Linoleum & Rug Co., which named her Runner-Up for Man of the Year in a national competition in 1954. In 1955, she married Charles Berry, a traveling salesman from Tennessee, and in 1956, their daughter Jane was born. Later, she worked as a legal secretary for attorney J. Harry Johnson at the state Dept. of Human Services and earned a Legal Assistant certificate at the OU Law Center. She took up ballroom dancing in her late 50s and danced until she was 87. She passed away in 2007.
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In 2012 the Oklahoma Historical Society invited those who purchased one of the monogrammed bricks paving the Red River Journey at the Oklahoma History Center to share about the person or group their brick honors. Below is a list of those who submitted stories and the message shown on their brick. Use the links below to read the contributed story.
This project was made possible by a generous donation from Catherine B. Wootten.
