Margaret Elizabeth Jackson

Marietta Monitor

September 30, 1994, page 4 Courtesy of Ray and Elreeta Weathers

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for Margaret Elizabeth Jackson were Friday, September 23, at 1:00 p.m. in the First United Methodist Church, Ardmore. Officiating were Dr. Wade Paschal and Rev. Dan Patman.

Mrs. Jackson was born October 3, 1915, at Thackerville and died September 21, 1994, in an Ardmore hospital at the age of 78. She was the daughter of Charles Linson and Oda May Norman Landrum.

She married George O. Jackson February 20, 1937, in Clovis, New Mexico, and he preceded her in death on October 17, 1970. Mrs. Jackson was a business owner and rancher in Tishomingo. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, the Memorial Hospital of Southern Oklahoma Auxiliary and the American Association of Retired Persons.

She is survived by a daughter, Ola Mae Kemp of Ardmore; three brothers, Bill Landrum and Gene Landrum of Ardmore, and Wallace Landrum of Pacific, Missouri; two sisters, Odette Landrum of Ardmore and Wilda Goodwin of Oklahoma City; a longtime close friend, Eric Middleton; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Jackson was preceded in death by her husband, three sisters, four half-sisters and three brothers.

Services were directed by the Griffin-Kennedy-Watts Funeral Home, Ardmore, with interment in the Coleman Cemetery. Casket bearers were Jackson Dodd, Bill Landrum, Jr., Sam Wallace, Tom Brandt, Jerry Landrum and Jean Kemp.