This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GREEN, HARBIN, JACKSON, REAVES, JUSTICE, O'FLAHERTY, HYDRICK Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Xgk.2ACEB/7629 Message Board Post: Posted as a random act of genealogical kindness, no relation to me and no further info available from me, sorry. Copied here under the Fair Use provisions for non-commercial research use, qualifying under subsections (1) - (4) of U.S. Code Title 17 Chapter 1 Sec. 107 regarding copyrights. -- LS Saturday, February 28, 2004 Bloomington [Illinois] Pantagraph Mae Jackson BLOOMINGTON -- Mae Jackson, 94, formerly of Birmingham, Ala., passed away Friday (Feb. 27, 2004) at Heritage Manor, Bloomington. She was a schoolteacher in Jefferson County, Alabama, for 37 years. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church, 1343 Hueytown Road, Hueytown, AL 35023. She was born Feb. 3, 1910, in Adger, Ala. She was preceded in death by her parents, Calvin Richard Green and Minnie Bennett Green, and one sister, Lucille Reaves. She married Sam Harbin on May 30, 1934. He died July 19, 1978. She later married Wade Jackson on April 19, 1979. He died in December 1994. Survivors include one daughter, Sylvia (Charles) Justice; one granddaughter, Jill (Mark) O'Flaherty; two great-grandsons, Seth O'Flaherty and Spencer O'Flaherty; four stepsons, Herbert (JoAnne) Jackson, Walter Wade (Mary) Jackson, Don (Dorothy) Jackson and Morris (Sue) Jackson; and one stepdaughter, Leatrice (Bob) Hydrick. Mrs. Jackson attended Troy State University and graduated from Birmingham Southern College with a degree in education. She was a first-grade teacher for 32 years and a second-grade teacher for five years, prior to her retirement. She was a member of Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church, Dorcas Sunday school class, Alabama Retired Teachers Association, Jefferson County Retired Teachers Association and the National Education Association. She was also a worthy matron of the Eastern Star and a charter member of the Rolling Wheels Camping Club. Some of her greatest joys were teaching children to read and spending time with her family. She was a courageous woman, devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and loyal friend. She will be greatly missed by all those who knew her. Mrs. Jackson's funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Brown's Funeral Home West Chapel in Hueytown, Ala., the Rev. Rick Patrick officiating. Visitation will be for one hour before service Monday at the funeral home. Carmody-Flynn Williamsburg Funeral Home, Bloomington, is in charge of local arrangements