James F. Jackson

Funeral services for James F. Jackson, 93, of Big Sandy will be 10:30 a.m., Saturday, September 22, 2018 at the Croley Funeral Home Chapel in Gladewater with Brother Sonny Parsons and Brother Jerome Ellerd officiating. There will be a lunch and fellowship at New Beginnings in Big Sandy immediately following the service. A private interment will take place at Hoover Cemetery. Mr. Jackson passed away Wednesday, September 19, 2018, in Gladewater.

Mr. Jackson was born February 23, 1925 in England, Arkansas to the late George Jackson and Victoria Evans Jackson. He joined the United States Marine Corps in 1944 and served in the Central Pacific, Japan and also during the Korean War where he was wounded in combat and received the Purple Heart. He returned state side in 1952 and married Esther Glover on February 12th of the same year. In 1958 he was Honorably Discharged from the military and went to work for the Ambassador College in Pasadena, California. He and his family moved to Big Sandy, Texas in 1964 to work at the new campus. He retired in 1990 after 26 years of service. He served 55 years as a Deacon for the Worldwide Church of God in Big Sandy which included helping the widows of the church. James was very active in the community and was a loving and devoted husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He will be truly missed by all the loving family and friends he leaves behind.

James is survived by his wife Esther Ann Jackson; son James S. Jackson of Tatum; two daughters Linda McKinley and husband Tracy of Georgia and Charlotte Sutton and husband Dave of Whitehouse; seven grandchildren; seven great grandchildren as well as many other loving family and friends.

He is preceded in death by his parents, a daughter Sharon Moller and a sister Sally Jackson.

In lieu of flower memorials in Mr. Jackson’s honor can be made to the Agape House Ministry, 306 N. Tyler St., Big Sandy, TX 75755.