Gloria Ann Jackson

Gloria Ann Jackson was born on 17 January 1936 in Mineola, Wood County, Texas, the daughter of the late Charles and Edna Galouye. She died on 13 January 2011 at home in Lindale, Texas. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Caudle-Rutledge Funeral Home. Visitation at the Caudle-Rutledge Chapel, 206 West South Street, Lindale, Texas, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, 15 Jan 2011. Pastor Tom Buck and Brother Bobby McClenny will officiate services at the Lindale First Baptist Church, 110 East Hubbard, at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, 16 January 2011. Internment will be at the Lindale Cemetery. Bobby R. Ashcraft, Clifford H. Bartley, Ross H. Hall, Jerry Lockhart, Edsel M. Loving, George L. Sharp, Alvin R. Francis, and Donald Sullivan will serve as pall bearers. Honorary: James L. "Jim" Mallory and Doyle E. Wells. A native of Mineola, Texas, where she graduated from high school in 1954, Gloria Ann Jackson attended Tyler Junior College and graduated summa cum laude from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth in 1957. In 1959, she received a Master of Arts degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. In 1978, she received her Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree from SMU. She was a member of The College of the State Bar of Texas. On 22 Dec 1957, she married Gary Dean Jackson in Mineola. They became the parents of two sons: David MacArthur Jackson, born Jan 1967, B.S.,Texas A&M, College Station Texas, and Ph.D., Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, and Daniel Marshall Jackson, born Oct 1968, B.B.A., Texas A&M, and M.B.A., Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. Gloria greatly influenced her sons to obtain an education. From 1959-1966, starting at the age of 23, Gloria Jackson taught history and government at Tyler Junior College and later she taught at Tarrant County Community College in Fort Worth. In 1978, Gloria Jackson was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Texas. She was also admitted to practice in US District Courts for the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas, the US Court of Claims and the US Army Court of Military Review, Washington, D.C., the US Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit, Richmond, VA, and 5th Circuit, New Orleans, LA, and the Federal Circuit, Washington, D.C. She practiced law with her husband at Dallas and Lindale offices. She was a real estate law expert and tried many significant cases. She became ill in 2007 and retired then. Her husband commanded US Army Reserve units in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas and had assignments in over a dozen military installations. During these assignments, Gloria Jackson participated in local military and civilian functions. On 13 Feb 1981, she was bestowed the title of Honorary Colonel in the 95th Division. Gloria Jackson is a devout Christian and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Lindale and its Encouragers Class. She was a Paul Harris Fellow in the Lindale Rotary Club. She served as President of the Lindale Evening Garden Club and performed pro bono legal services for the Lindale Library. She was an avid gardener, a talented singer, an accomplished pianist and a gifted artist. She excelled in and greatly appreciated the finer arts. She was an outgoing person who made friends easily and greatly cherished those friendships. Even when fighting her own illness, she aided others with health issues. She reached out and offered support, encouragement and love, touching many lives in a very positive way, all because it was "the right thing to do." Gloria Jackson is survived by Gary Jackson, her husband of 53 years, her two sons, David and Daniel Jackson, a brother Charles (Judy) Galouye, a sister Yvonne (Joe) Crawford, brother-in-law Ronald Jackson, granddaughters Sabrina and Erica Jackson, and mother-in-law Leslie Evelyn Sitton Jackson, recently honored as the oldest living graduate of Lindale High School. She was also survived by special friends Shirlee Gandy, Betty Gilbert, Shelia Joyner, Crystal Lafitte, Janice McDaniel, Ruby Sitton, Sylvia Wiman and Dr. Susana Zanello. She, with a most aggressive brain tumor, amazed her physicians at both East Texas Medical Center and Duke University Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, living more than four times longer than an original prognosis of eleven months. Dr. Harry Friedman of Duke described her as a "walking miracle". Drs. Paul Detwiler, Robert Droder, Donna and Wendell Hand, James Kolker and Heidi McKeller were also laudatory of her ability to survive beyond expectations. The family suggests memorial contributions to the Lindale Library, 200 East Hubbard AC 903/882-1900, and/or The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University, DUMC Box 3624, NC 27710, AC 919/684-4784.

Gloria Ann Jackson

January 17, 1936 - January 13, 2011