Source: Adams Funeral Home
Transcribed by Bettye Odom
Esta Verna Jackson, member of an early Crosby County family and a resident of this community most of her life, was claimed by death at 1 p.m. Saturday in her home, 501 South Harrison. She was 77.Mrs. Jackson had been in failing health for several months.
Private services were conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in her home. Loyd Hall, Church of Christ minister, officiated.
Interment was made in Crosbyton Cemetery, with Adams Funeral Home handling arrangements.
Friends were asked by the family to call at Mrs. Jackson´s home from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Born Aug. 2, 1903 in Speedwell, Tenn., the former Esta Verna Ellison moved with her parents, the late Berry and Annie Christina Ellison, to this county in 1909 from Speedwell.
She and Thomas Jefferson Jackson were married July 31, 1925 in Crosbyton. Mr. Jackson preceded his wife in death Nov. 1, 1969.
In 1939, Tom and Esta Jackson bought their own farm, east of Crosbyton. They built a home in Crosbyton in 1958 on a site about two blocks from the location where her father had built in 1909. The couple was active in community affairs.
Mrs. Jackson was a member of the Church of Christ in Crosbyton.
She is survived by one son, J.W. Jackson of Crosbyton; one daughter, Verna Anne Wheeler of Crosbyton; a brother, Haskell V. Ellison of Odessa; two sisters, Mrs. Ada Anderson of Ralls and Lottie Ellison of Lubbock; five grandchildren, Jeffery Wade Jackson, Reba Joy Brown, Amy Lee Harris, Reggie Wheeler, and Brady Wheeler; and three great grandchildren, Daniel Brown, Alison Wheeler, and Mindy Harris.
Pallbearers were Kent Anderson, Buddy Brown, Larry Harris, Reggie Wheeler, Brady Wheeler, and Wade Jackson - all grandsons or grandsons-in-law; Anderson is a grandnephew.
Crosbyton Review, February 19, 1981
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
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