[Qcwa] Re: QCWA digest, Vol 1 #339 - 1 msg

Wed, 28 May 2003 07:15:58 -0400

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> From: "Bob  N0UF" <[email protected]>
> To: "QCWA Reflector" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 08:07:45 -0500
> Subject: [Qcwa] Fw: W0CW - SK
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> From: "L. S. Staples" <[email protected]>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 7:58 AM
> Subject: W0CW - SK
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> This obituary appeared in the Kansas City Star today:
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> Mayo J. (Mac) McAllister
>
> Mayo J. (Mac) McAllister of Leawood, KS, 82, passed away on Monday,
May
> 26,
> 2003, at St. Joseph Health Center. Memorial services to be announced.
> (Arrangements: Mt. Moriah and Freeman Funeral Home, 816-942-2004)
>
> Published in the Kansas City Star on 5/27/2003.
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>
http://www.legacy.com/kansascity/LegacySubPage2.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId
> =1041139
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> The following is an expanded version supplied by Jeanne McAllister:
>
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> Mayo J McAllister of Leawood, Kansas, 82, passed away on Monday, May
26
> at
> St Joseph's Hospital. Memorial services to be announced.
>
> He was born in 1921 to Z.D. and Bula McAllister in Pawnee, Oklahoma.
He
> moved to the Kansas City area in 1931 and graduated from Shawnee
Mission
> North High School in 1937. While attending Kansas City Junior College,
> he
> worked at Burstein-Applebee and Wilcox Electric Co. After the
beginning
> of
> World War II, he worked at Wright Field with the Civil Service doing
> research in the Special Weapons Branch of the U.S. Army Air Corps and
> later
> was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services. In 1945 he
transferred
> to
> Pennsylvania State University where he worked in the engineering
> department. At Penn State, he met and married Jean Walters, his wife
of
> 57
> years. In 1947, they returned to the Kansas City area where he worked
as
> a
> Sales Engineer for the W.E. Fry Co until 1961 when he started his own
> manufacturers' representative and importing company, McAllister
> Associates,
> Inc. He retired in 2000 at which time his son, Jim, took over the
> operation
> of the company.
>
> He has been an active Amateur Radio Operator since he was 12 years old
> being especially fond of and proficient in the use of International
Code
> and enjoyed talking to operators in as many foreign countries as
> possible
> and traveling to many unusual places to operate as a "dx" station with
> call
> letters issued to him by those countries. As W0CW he was a member of
> QCWA,
> ARRL and KC DX Club. He was also a member of Old Mission Masonic Lodge
> and
> Blue Hills Country Club .
>
> He was preceded in death by his parents and his daughter, Sandra
> McAllister
> Engstrom. He was a devoted husband and father and with his very
outgoing
> personality, great sense of humor and love of travel made many friends
> all
> over the world. Survivors include his wife, Jeanne , son and daughter
in
> law, Jim and Patricia McAllister, three grandsons, a granddaughter and
> three great grandsons as well as three nieces and three nephews.
>
> Contributions in lieu of flowers may be made to Powell Gardens,
American
> Cancer Society or charity of your choice.
>
>
>
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