Edith EllenJackson

Edith Ellen Jackson, Age 85, of Greenville passed away on April 9, 2009 at University Medical Center in Lubbock.  Services will be at 2:00 PM Monday in the Coker-Mathews Funeral Home Chapel.  Interment will follow at Memoryland Memorial Park.  Visitation will be from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM on Sunday at the funeral home. 

Mrs. Jackson was born on March 3, 1924 in Argonia, Kansas to Howard Lyman and Euphemia Annie Leslie Covey.  She served in WWII as a WAVE.  She was a hospital apprentice lst class for the United States Navy.  She retired from E/Systems as an electronic assembler and was a member of the Asbury United Methodist Church in Denton.

She is survived by her son George Jackson, Jr. and wife, René of Huntsville; five daughters, Marjorie Jeter and husband Mike of Lubbock, Anna Voss and husband Bubba of Lubbock, Becky Grayson and husband Les of Corsicana, and Barbara Garcia and husband David of Greenville; 18 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, George Thomas Jackson, Sr., two sisters Lucille Arnold and Lula Schnurr; three brothers Lyman, Everett and Howard Covey, and l grandson David Scott Bland.