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Mc Kenzie, TN
HUNTINGDON, TENN. -
Mr. James Franklin Jackson, 81, of Huntingdon, Tennessee died Friday, April 21, 2023 at Huntingdon Heath and Rehab.
Memorials can be made to Gideons International or First Presbyterian Church of Huntingdon.
Funeral services were Monday, April 24, 2023 at 1 p.m. in the Chapel of Chase Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Whitley officiating. Interment followed in Carroll Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers who served were Cole Hickerson, David Carter, Brett Jackson, Brady York, Steve Glover, and Donnie Glover. Honorary pallbearers were Dwight Reasons, Dax Hickerson, Brenton Hickerson.
Mr. Jackson was born April 8, 1942, in Gadsden, Tennessee, to the late James Hopper Jackson and Virginia Dycus. He graduated from Gadsden High School, received his bachelor’s degree from Bethel University, and his master’s degree from Memphis State University. Beginning in college, he worked as a “Radio DJ” and sports announcer for various stations until 2013. He served as teacher, coach, principal, and superintendent of schools, retiring after thirty years of service in Fayette County, Tennessee, Pocahontas, Arkansas and in Carroll County. He was a lay Presbyterian minister, a member of First Presbyterian Church of Huntingdon, Gideon International, and a former member of the Rotary Club. Along with his parents, he was preceded in death by his grandmother, Sadie Jackson, who raised him, and a son-in-law, Chet Roberts.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Christine (Glover) Jackson, a daughter, Suzanne Carter (David) of Huntingdon, a son, Mark Jackson (Kim) of Martin, two sisters, Patricia Gibbs (Mark) of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kimberly Jackson, of Murfreesboro, and five brothers, John Hayes (Liz) of Houston, Texas, Jerry Hayes (Ruth) of Germantown, Joe Hayes, of Palmetto, Florida, Mike Jackson (Vickie) of Bartlett, and Tim Jackson, of Jackson. He also leaves seven grandchildren, Hannah Hickerson, Lauren Roberts, Brett Jackson, Rebecca Roberts, Tori York, Brady York, Aly Carter, and ten great-grandchildren.
