Macklin C. Harmon's Obituary
Macklin C. Harmon, the last surviving child born to Wilbur and Madgie Street Harmon, departed this life on Saturday, June 10, 2023, at the age of eighty-nine at the Renaissance Nursing Home in Millsboro, Delaware. Macklin was born July 20, 1933, in Millsboro, Delaware. Mack enrolled in the Warwick #225 Elementary School in 1939 and graduated in June 1947.
Given the legal restrictions imposed upon students of color in Delaware in 1947, Macklin attended the Richard C. Allen High School in Georgetown, Delaware, for grades nine through eleven. Macklin was among the first students in the first class in Sussex County to graduate from the William C. Jason Comprehensive High School, the newly constructed High School which opened in 1951 in Georgetown, Delaware. Macklin made the decision to depart from his close and tight net family for the first time to enroll in Delaware State College (University) in the Fall of 1952.
The absence of a close net family which was so endearing to Macklin was soon made more tolerable by a friendship that would become the love of his life, Marion Mosely of Milford, Delaware. Macklin and Marion were married at the Harmony United Methodist Church in August of 1958, the family church for the Harmon family since its inception in October 1818. While at Delaware State, Macklin would become a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. in 1955. Macklin graduated from Delaware State College in 1956 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics.
Macklin accepted a position in the Baltimore City Public Schools in
1956 at the then Booker T. Washington Junior High School in Baltimore, Maryland. Macklin would spend his entire career of thirty-one years as a teacher at the Booker T. Washington Middle School. Upon his retirement in 1987, Macklin was honored with a retirement reception recognizing his tenure as the longest serving faculty member in the history of the school. During those thirty-one years Macklin cultivated and nourished the love and respect of countless students and staff.
Upon his retirement in 1987, The focus of Macklin’s life would become family and more importantly, his daughter, Nikita. These early retirement years were consumed by weekly trips to Delaware to assist in the care and` support of his aging mother, Madgie Harmon. Macklin’s retirement plans and years were disrupted by the devastating disease commonly known as dementia. Macklin would suffer from this disease over the last twelve years of his life, but always supported by the love and support of his wife of sixty-four years Marion and his daughter Nikita. Macklin was a caring, devoted and loving husband, father, brother and uncle. Left behind to cherish his memory are his wife Marion, daughter Nikita and nephews W. Sylvester Harmon and Robert (Luvenia) G. Draine, Sr. Four siblings preceded him in death: Edward Harmon, Eunice Harmon Draine, Sylvester Harmon and Leston Harmon. Macklin leaves to observe his passing several other relatives and friends.
A viewing will be held from 5 PM to 7 PM on Saturday, June 17, 2023, at the Watson Funeral Home, 211 S. Washington St., Millsboro, DE 19966.
Interment will be private.
In lieu of flowers the family suggest donations to your favorite charity.
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