Sarah Ann Lockwood Macina's Obituary
The family will be accepting guests from 5:00pm-7:00pm at Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home on Tuesday, January 27th. Funeral services will be held at 11:00am at Grace Lutheran Church on Wednesday, January 28th. Interment will be at Pakan Cemetery in Shamrock, Texas at 1:00pm on Friday, January 30th. Arrangements are by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home of Midland and Robertson Funeral Directors of Shamrock. Sarah was born on July 27, 1930 to Carroll Joy and Aileen Lockwood. Sarah was a lover of words and music. She was always a teacher and had a great sense of humor. Her daughters dreaded going with her to the Safeway supermarket, because she took her red teacher pen with her and cheerfully corrected such things as the spelling of broccoli as she filled her basket. She winced every time she passed a music store on the Andrews Highway whose signs advertised the sale of pianos with a misplaced apostrophe. From the age of three, Sarah read constantly and always had a book in hand. At times, there was a book on each couch. When her eyes failed, she listened to recorded books. Not long after her birth, the family moved to Beaumont, Texas. There she and her younger sister Carolyn sang and played the piano. They were members of many choirs that performed publicly. Among these was one called the Melody Maids. Later, both girls graduated from North Texas State University. During the summers, they performed in the Dallas State Fair Summer Musicals. Sarah continued to perform when she moved to Midland, landing the female lead in the musical Brigadoon at the Midland Community Theatre. Sarah earned her master degree in English from St. Johns College in Santa Fe. In the ‘60s Sarah became the choir director at Grace Lutheran Church, a position she held for approximately 20 years. Sarah taught English at Cowden, San Jacinto Junior High School and Midland High School. She enjoyed her diverse students and especially enjoyed teaching at Midland High School where she also served as the Chairman of the English department for a number of years. Among her many gifts was being ambidextrous. She would stand in front of the middle of the chalkboard, and begin writing a sentence with her left hand and would then switch the chalk to her right hand to complete the sentence. It usually took her students a semester to figure it out. During the ‘80s, many of her AP classes designed tee-shirts with slogans and caricatures that depicted her as a slave- driver. One quote that appeared at least twice was the advice, “Abandon all hope ye who enter here” She is survived by her loving husband of 63 years, Bob Macina: daughter, Mary Macina Durham and husband, Tom; daughter Kathy Macina Harrison and husband, Roy; grandchildren, Jennifer Harrison Thompson, and her husband, J.P.; David Harrison, Caitlin Durham and Josh Durham. She is also survived by three great- grandchildren, Peyton, Parker, and Paxton Thompson. She is preceded in death by her parents; C.J. and Aileen Lockwood; and her daughter, Susan Macina. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in memory of Sarah to the Baumann Scholarship Fund at Grace Lutheran Church or the Capitol Campaign at Grace Lutheran Church.
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