Jackie Darell Link

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Jackie Darell Link, age 78, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Sunday, March 24, 2019, at his home at Lake Fort Scott. He was born Feb. 11, 1941, to Merry Grace (Maxwell) Link and Thomas E. Link of Northeast Kansas City. At the age of 14, he started working at the Benton View Drug Store where he met Koyle June Kern. Her mother worked with Jack. He worked at the drug store all through high school and graduated from Northeast High in 1959. While in high school he was a member of the choir and the Northeast High School ROTC program where he served as the Lt. Commander his senior year. After high school he joined the Air Force where he served for four years and learned the technical training that got him a job at IBM in 1966. He worked for IBM for 30 years.

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