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- Ethel D. Jackson, 80, Rt. 2, Noble, died at 1:05 p.m.Tuesday, June 18, in Richland Memorial Hospital. Services will be 3:30 p.m. Friday in Summers Funeral Home with Bro. Gene Everett presiding. Burial will be Noble Cemetery.
Mrs. Jackson was born Oct. 2, 1903, in Denver Township, the daughter of Eddie and Amanda (Faris) Tracey. She married Walter G. Jackson and he preceded her in death in 1968.
Survivors include four sons, Dick Joe, Olney; Ken S., Jerry, and Walter G., Jr., all of Noble; three daughters, Mrs. Cecil (Betty) Boulb, Olney; Mrs. James (Doris) Deck, and Mrs. Carl (Erma) Fulk, all of Noble; two sisters, Jessie Patterson, Noble; Mrs. George (Nellie) Long, Champaign; a sister-in-law, Mrs. Minnie Doty, Olney; 17 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, three infants, an infant brother and two granddaughters.
Olney Daily Mail, June 19, 1985
IN LOVING MEMORY
Ethel Dora Tracey Jackson was born Oct. 2, 1903, the daughter of Eddie and Amanda J. Faris Tracey. She was born in Denver Twp., Richland Co., III. She was delivered by midwife and E. L. Palmer reported the birth to the courthouse.
Her grandfather, Lawson G. Tracey, settled in Wynoose area in the late 1860s coming from Ohio. Mrs. Jackson attended the Kincade school until her folks purchased a home in Noble, III. There she attended the Noble grade school.
She married Walter Grant Jackson, Nov. 18, 1926, in Olney, III. at the home of Alvin O. Jacobs who performed the ceremony. Witnesses were Anna and Orel Jacobs.
Walter and Ethel begat the following children: Erma, Doris, Betty, Dick, Jerry, Kenny, Walter Grant Jr., Henry Edward who died at 7 months, and stillborn infants.
Mrs. Jackson was employed at the Olney shoe factory and the Noble Diner.
She traveled with her family out west where her husband worked on the railroad and they lived in the Forest Ridge area. Mt. Erie, Olney, and Noble. When her husband was away at work Ethel was the strength and protector of her family. She attended the Brown Church when they lived at Mt. Erie.
Ethel loved her family and people. She always said, "You're as young as you feel." She was an outgoing person who wanted to be with her family.
She leaves 7 children, 18 grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren and 2 sisters, Nellie Long and Jessie Patterson. and many nephews and nieces and cousins. Her husband Walter passed away July 21, 1968. One granddaughter, Linda Sue Deck, who died May 16, 1967
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