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Rosemary
Jackson
May 6, 1926 – January 24, 2012
Funeral services will be conducted 2:00 p.m. Thursday at Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home with Brother Jerry Leggett officiating. Burial will follow in East View Cemetery.
The family will receive friends at Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Wednesday.
Pallbearers will be Jerry Duncan, Brian Hughes, Henry Inmon, Royce Morgan, Jerry Cole and Heath Duncan.
The family requests that memorials be made to the charity of the donor's choice.
She was born at Harris Station in Obion County, Tennessee on May 6, 1926 daughter of the late Joseph Orbin and Mary Ellen Maranda (Parker) Lusk Smith. She married William Freeman Jackson of Rives on May 29, 1948. He died on November 16, 1998. She was a member of Second Baptist Church in Union City since it was established in 1951. She had been a Cub Scout assistant den mother for one year and a den mother for three years. She was an assistant leader for two years with the Girl Scouts. She was known for her love of children and antiques. She enjoyed going to yard sales not only for a bargain but also to talk to everyone. For several years she was a guard at the Obion County Museum when it was located at the fairgrounds during the Obion County Fair. For many years she entered antiques in the fair and won many ribbons and prizes. She had been employed for a few years each at the former Brown Shoe Company and the former Salant & Salant and a local antique shop.
Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, James Robert and Jean Jackson and her daughter Elizabeth "Betty" Gray all of Union City; her granddaughters and spouses, Amy Jean (Jackson) and Scott W. Duncan of Union City, Laura Elizabeth (Gray) and R. Keith Conner of Troy, and Rebecca Rose Gray of Union City; a great grandson, Tyler Scott Duncan of Union City; a sister, Elois Walker of Stafford, Texas; a sister-in-law, Virginia Smith of Union City; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by one sister, Lela Fullerton; two brothers, Ursel Smith and Odis Smith; a half brother, Lowell Lusk; and her son-in-law, Michael G. Gray.
Edmaiston-Mosley Funeral Home 731-885-1033
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