Carol Mackie

Carol Mary Mackie of Wayne passed away peacefully on Friday, December 5. 2025. 

Carol was born in Brooklyn, NY to Marguerite and Edward Naylor. She graduated from Midwood High School and began working as a bookkeeper at Noyes Co at the age of seventeen. After fourteen years, when Noyes Co. moved offices, Carol began working at Credit Suisse. It was while working at Credit Suisse that Carol had her first date with who would become her husband, her love, and life partner, Joseph “Bob” Mackie. 

Carol enjoyed sewing and spent much of her life making her own clothes. She told stories of her mother teaching her to sew when she was young and how she picked it up quite naturally. She had a special knack for zippers; her mother would tell her. Over the years, Carol sewed many beautiful and colorful outfits for herself, but her favorite color for clothing and everything else was always purple. 

Throughout the years, Carol made an impact wherever she went. She spoke to everyone and if you had a conversation with her, you’d always remember it. And, if you were lucky enough to make her laugh, you’d also notice the room light up. She had a take-charge attitude about everything and a wry sense of humor. Everyone she spoke to, right down to the clerk at the grocery store, felt immediately like Carol was a friend after a single conversation. 

Although they basically grew up together, Carol and her beloved husband, “Bob,” wouldn’t begin dating until prompted by Carol’s brother, Donald, who was a good friend of Bob’s. While both working in Manhattan, Carol and Bob began dating with a lunch date on South Street and then continued with trips to Marine Theater on Flatbush Avenue, Broadway shows, Luigi’s pizza parlor, and Friday night fried shrimp dates. After a year and a half of dating, they were married at Our Lady of the Skies on May 5,1973, coincidentally Kentucky Derby Day. Carol and Bob honeymooned in Florida and then continued their lives going everywhere together. Vacations to New England or road trips to Lancaster, Spring Lake, grocery shopping and all of Bob’s softball games, they went everywhere together. For over fifty years of marriage, Carol and Bob never spent even one night apart, a true testament to their love story. After a lifetime of love and partnership, Carol leaves her husband of 52 years, along with her sisters and many adoring family members and friends. Carol was predeceased by her parents, her brother, Donald, and her niece, Gayle.

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In lieu of Flowers memorial donations to Disability Rights New Jersey would be appreciated.

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