Lavina Mitchell Jackson
06 Mar 1916 - 19 Oct 2012
© Alva Review-Courier
Reprinted with permission
Submitted by Sandy Bain

© Glenn

Ringwood – Funeral service for Lavina Jackson will be Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at New Beginnings Wesleyan Fellowship in Ringwood with Pastor James Wall officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Meno. Viewing will be Wednesday 10:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. with family present 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.

Lavina Jackson was born March 6, 1916 at Farry, Oklahoma, the daughter of Joel Andrew and Florence Walker Mitchell and passed from this life at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Enid on October 19, 2012. After her high school graduation, she earned her degree in English and Home Economics at Northwestern State University in Alva. Lavina and Ted Jackson were married September 2, 1943 in Bristow. She had lived in the Ringwood area all her married life. Lavina was actively involved in her church and in her children’s, grandchildren’s, great grandchildren’s and great-great grandchildren’s lives and activities. She was a member of the Friends Church in Alva and after her marriage to Ted, she attended the Wesleyan Church and then the New Beginnings Wesleyan Fellowship. She had played the piano and organ for church for many years. Lavina’s teaching career took her many places; namely, Hitchcock, OBA, Ames, Mutual and Ringwood. After teaching English, Home Economics and Elementary for her last seven years, she retired but substituted in area schools. At the age of 90 she was still volunteering at Ringwood Schools. Lavina started the Home Economics Program at Ringwood School and was honored by Ringwood School on the 50th anniversary of the Home Economics Program beginning in Oklahoma.

Those preceding her in death were her husband, Ted; one daughter, Lillian Pearl Jackson; nine brothers and sisters and two great grandsons.

Those who survive are her children, Paul Jackson and wife, Debbie of Ringwood and Mary Jackson of Enid; four grandchildren, Steven Jackson and wife, Kathy, Richard Jackson, Christina Jones and husband, Preston “Bubba” and Mary Stewart and husband, Kyle; twelve great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to New Beginnings Wesleyan Fellowship Building Fund through the funeral home.

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