City of Oaks Funeral Home & Cremation
Obituary
Andrew Mackie
Raleigh, North Carolina
Age 75.
Died 11/18/2025.
Raleigh, North Carolina – Andrew F. Mackie passed away at the age of 75 on November 18th, 2025, at his home in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was born on March 6, 1950, in Pittsburg, Kansas, to parents John W. Mackie, Jr., and Mary Wipperman Mackie. Andrew spent his childhood in Pittsburg and graduated from Pittsburg High School in 1968.
Andrew attended college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. Upon returning to Kansas after college in 1972, Andrew married Kathleen Urankar Mackie, also of Pittsburg, and embarked on a career at Buildex Lightweight Aggregate in Ottawa, Kansas. Andrew served as vice president for Buildex, retiring in 2012. Throughout his career, Andrew was an active member in multiple professional and industry organizations, including the Kansas Masonry Association and the Expanded Shale, Clay, and Slate Institute (ECSI), for which he served as past president. Andrew and Kathleen lived in Ottawa until 2020, when they moved to Raleigh, North Carolina.
Andrew was an avid waterman who was at his happiest behind the wheel of a boat. Andrew and Kathleen spent a large share of their summers on the water with family and a group of lifelong friends on Pomona Lake in Kansas, on Table Rock Lake in Missouri, and on Portage Lake and Lake Michigan in Onekama, Michigan. A skillful pilot and fisherman, Andrew was equally at home helming a houseboat, fishing for salmon in the deep waters of Lake Michigan, or towing his kids and grandkids behind a ski boat. Andrew also enjoyed SCUBA diving in Florida and the Keys with family and friends.
Andrew is survived by his wife Kathleen, brother John W. Mackie III (Joy), sister Allison Kerr Mackie Haworth (Gary), daughters Linda Mackie McCall (Jonathan) and Susan Mackie Chang (Bailey), and five grandchildren: Adrian Dale McCall, Thomas Andrew McCall, Miriam Elizabeth Chang, Enoch Euling Chang, and Ruth Anne Chang.
Services for Andrew will be held on 11:00 AM on December 15, 2025, at Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church, 4415 Pleasant Grove Church Road, Raleigh, NC, 27613. At Andrew’s request, his ashes will be interred in Pittsburg, Kansas, at a later date.
Gifts in Andrew’s memory can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, Transitions LifeCare Hospice, and Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church.
For additional information or for service details, please reach out to the family directly.
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City of Oaks Cremation and Funeral Home is a full-service funeral home in Raleigh, serving all of North Carolina and beyond. We provide an alternative to costly funeral homes and every day we help families in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and all over North Carolina make simple, affordable funeral arrangements.
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Apples to Apples
Just like all other licensed funeral homes in North Carolina, City of Oaks Cremation, LLC is regulated by the NC Board of Funeral Service.
The same laws that apply to the big corporate funeral homes also apply to the modest independently owned firms like ours. All crematories in North Carolina, regardless of who owns them, are inspected annually by the state and must adhere to the same rules and laws.
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We're committed to providing families within our community unsurpassed service before, during and after the time of loss.
Our staff will provide clear communication to your family through each step as we move forward from the original phone call notifying us of a death to the time we deliver the urn back to your family. We will treat your family with the utmost respect, as we honor the wishes of your loved one.
We promise to make this process affordable and as endurable as possible.
State Wide
Our Funeral Home is located in Wake County NC; however, we provide our services to families throughout the entire State.
Unlike other funeral homes, we don't charge an additional mileage fee. Regardless of what county you live in, we can help your family with making simple, affordable funeral arrangements. From Asheville to Wilmington, we're proud to help families statewide.
Our Services
$1196.75
Nobody likes surprise costs added in at the last minute. We guarantee you will not find any hidden charges here. We include everything you need for a simple or direct cremation. Simple, affordable and reliable. We have not changed the cost of our direct cremation service since we opened City of Oaks in 2012.
$2875.66
We offer the option of choosing how you receive your loved ones remains. Selecting our Direct Cremation with Solidified Remains option is a beautiful way to transform cremated remains into 40-60 “stones” that you can hold.
$1917.84
City of Oaks Funeral Home and Cremation provides an affordable cremation option with onsite visitation. Nobody likes surprise costs added in at the last minute. We guarantee you will not find any hidden charges here. Simple, affordable and reliable.
$1596.75
City of Oaks Funeral Home and Cremation provides an affordable cremation with a private family viewing. A private family viewing allows up to 10 immediate family members or friends to spend time with a loved one when a public visitation is not preferred.
$2497.50
An immediate burial has the same end result as a traditional burial; however, we have eliminated the extra (sometimes unnecessary) services prior to getting to the cemetery. Not everyone wants an open casket for viewing or a limousine for the family. Despite the term immediate, we can move as fast as you need or as slow as you like. This option simply allows you to save money by eliminating some of the fancy extras at the funeral home.
$6081.48
We offer the same traditional funeral services as the big corporately owned funeral homes in the area; however, we cost about half the amount. You might consider a traditional funeral service if your family is looking for an open casket visitation, a traditional church service or a funeral service in the funeral home's chapel. A traditional funeral service can be altered to fit the needs of your family.
$3033.75
This establishment is one of a select number of funeral homes who meet the criteria for providing green funeral service by the Green Burial Council; a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization working to encourage environmentally sustainability in the field of funeral service. Our Green options allow for a funeral to take place without the use of toxic and non-biodegradable materials/chemicals.
$2640.59
As an alternative to traditional cremation, City of Oaks Funeral Home also offers Aquamation. The Aquamation process, often referred to as alkaline hydrolysis, uses a solution of water and potassium hydroxide to facilitate natural decomposition.