Joe "Bob" Mackie

Joe Robert (Bob) Mackie passed into heaven April 2, 2023, as he slept, at home, and he is.

greatly missed! He had been recovering from pneumonia and congestive heart failure.

Bob was born in Blackfoot, Idaho in 1935, the youngest of four children: two girls and two.

boys, all are now deceased. He lived most of his life in California, in the Sacramento area and that is.

where he attended school. He enjoyed singing in the high school choir, and played football as well as

being on the acrobatics team. His favorite past time over the years has been riding motorcycle,

especially his Harley-Davidson. While Bob was in the Army, he met and married Margaret Kipp. They

had three children: Jill Reneau, who now lives in Santa Cruz, California, Aaron Mackie the youngest,

who lives in Oregon, and Lois Leath who lived in Atwater, California, and preceded her dad in death.

Bob and Jackie were married in 1985, and Bob gained three more grown children: Susan,

Andrew and Ben Theiss. In 1988, Bob and Jackie moved to Elk City, Idaho and lived there until early.

2018 when Bob had a stroke. They then moved to Kooskia, Idaho, where Susan (and her family),

Andrew, and Ben now live.

Bob ALWAYS delighted in being of service to others during their many years of living in Elk.

City. One of his passions was doing tire work for friends, strangers, and people who truly could use the

help; fixing flats, changing out tires, and so on. It could be seen at these times that Bob’s generosity.

and good nature would shine.

Bob can be described as humble, honorable, loving, giving, caring, dedicated, determined,

funny (at least he thought so!), stable, understanding, clever, creative, dependable, providing,

comforting, interesting and uncomplicated.

There may be very few husbands, friends, dads, grandfathers or great grandfathers thought of

with as much respect and love as Bob. He has been highly blessed with friends, children,

grandchildren, great grandchildren and has been a wonderful blessing to all. There is no one like him.

and never will be. Those who have come to know and love him will always be so very thankful to have him/had him in their lives.



On Saturday, May 13th at 11 AM you are welcome to join us for a memorial service for Bob at the

Gateway Christian Fellowship at 501 Idaho Street, Kooskia, Idaho.