Lola Jackson

December 9, 1935 - July 25, 2018

Lola Jackson, 82, of Beaver Mountain, passed away Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at her home. She was born December 9, 1935 in Brooken, Oklahoma to Cleo and Ruby Phillips. She grew up around Beaver Mountain and also attended school there. She married Bill Jackson on April 7, 1956 in Stigler. They made their home in Broken Arrow for 30 years then in the mid 80’s they moved to Beaver Mountain and made their home. Lola worked at a variety of jobs besides working at several nursing homes as a CMA. She worked her last 5 years at Stigler Haskell County Nursing Center then retired. Lola loved gardening, canning, loved to cook. She’d try out new receips and try them out on her family first. She was all about family. They were a tight knit family. They had family singings every 3rd weekend of the month. Her passion was singing, going to church. No matter how sick she as she would still sing. She was a member of the Apostolic-Jesus Name Church. She loved her family and adored her grandchildren. Heaven just received another choir member. She was a sweet Christian woman. Lola is survived by her son, Rickey & daughter-in-law Brenda of Broken Arrow; her daughter, Christine McNeese of Stigler; 5 grandchildren, Richard, Delana, Billie, Robert Lee, and Laura; 7 sisters, Mary, Velva, Connie, Bobbie, Joy, Wonnetta, Phyllis; 2 brothers, Charles Phillips and Otis Wayne Phillips. Lola is preceded in death by her parents, Cleo and Ruby Phillips; her husnad of 54 years, Bill Jackson; 2 brothers, Boyd Phillips and Carl Phillips; a sister, Lillian Ferrell; a grandson, Melvin Massey. Funeral Services will be held 1:00 P.M. Saturday, July 28, 2018 at Sandridge Pentecostal Church with Pastors, Connie Thornton, Harold Thompson, Charles Phillips, Wayne Phillips officiating. Pallbearers include Johnny Thornton, Bud Killion, Chester Ray Phillips, Jimmy Taylor, Douge Taylor, Rickey Jackson. Honorary Pallbearers include John Paul Thornton, Carl Phillips. Burial will follow in Mountain Home Cemetery under the direction of King & Shearwood Funeral Home of Stigler.