Lona Mae Jackson

LONA MAE JACKSON
LONA MAE JACKSON OF POTOSI, MISSOURI WAS BORN AT BLACKWELL, MISSOURI ON MAY 14, 1907. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE LAWERENCE AND MADELINE (JONES) MESEY. LONA MAE DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT THE POTOSI MANOR NURSING HOME IN POTOSI, MISSOURI HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF NINETY FIVE YEARS, FOUR MONTHS AND TWENTY TWO DAYS.
SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO DAVID DANIEL JACKSON ON JULY 25, 1927 AND TO THIS UNION EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN. DAVID PRECEDED HIS WIFE IN DEATH ON JUNE 30, 1975.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY TWO DAUGHTERS, BARBARA KEEFE OF DESOTO, MISSOURI AND ESTHER HENSON AND HUSBAND LARRY OF PARK HILLS, MISSOURI, FOUR SONS, LEHMAN JACKSON OF ST. CHARLES, MISSOURI, MARVIN JACKSON AND WIFE EVA OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, DAVID JACKSON AND WIFE MARSHA OF DESOTO, MISSOURI AND LINDELL JACKSON AND WIFE SUE OF LEADWOOD, MISSOURI, THREE SISTERS, FLORENCE KETCHUM OF DESLOGE, MISSOURI, ANN RAWSON AND HUSBAND TOM OF DESOTO, MISSOURI AND BONNIE RAY OF KENTUCKY, TWO BROTHERS, LEONARD MESEY OF ILLINOIS AND BERT MESEY AND WIFE ANN OF COLORADO, EIGHTEEN GRANDCHILDREN AND TWENTY FOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO SONS, ANDREW JACKSON AND ROBERT VINCENT JACKSON.
LONA MAE ENJOYED MANY GIFTS OF MOTHER NATURE. SHE LIKED TO GARDEN VEGETABLES AND FLOWERS AND ENJOYED SEWING. SHE LOVED TO SPEND TIME WITH FAMILY AND WAS WELL KNOWN FOR ALWAYS HAVING THEM ENJOY HER COOKING. HER GRANDDAUGHTER, DEBBIE, WAS HER SPECIAL CARE GIVER. LONA MAE WILL BE SADLY MISSED BY FAMILY AND MANY FRIENDS.
VISITATION WAS HELD 5:30 PM TO 9:00 PM MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2002 AND 8:30 AM TO 9:30 AM ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2002 AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME POTOSI.
A FUNERAL MASS WAS CONDUCTED 10:00 AM TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2002 AT THE ST. JOACHIM CATHOLIC CHURCH WITH FATHER TED PIEPER OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN THE ST. JOACHIM CATHOLIC CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE TOM PORTELL, DAVID KEARNS, ALAN KEEFE, MIKE JENNINGS, MARK JOLLIFF AND MIKE BENHEN.