OBITUARY: Edward Lee Jackson
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Edward Lee Jackson died on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at the V.A. Nursing Home in Marion. He was 80 years old.
Visitation will be at Blue Funeral Home in Marion at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 28, 2012, followed by the funeral service at noon. Military rites will be at Zion Cemetery in Ozark prior to burial. Pastor Ed Krantz will officiate.
Ed was born in Johnson County on Oct. 14, 1931, to Eugene and Ruth (Nance) Jackson. He married Mary Laverne Wilkins on Nov. 7, 1952. She died in February 1999 from cancer. Ed and Mary had a son, Mark of Harrisburg, and daughter, Theresa of Burna, Ky. Mark has two daughters, Ryan and Aaron, and five grandchildren. Theresa is married to Glen Graham and they have three daughters, Amy, Sarah and Heather, as well as two grandchildren.
Ed served in the U.S. Army, was a member of the Lions Club in Harrisburg and was an auctioneer for many years with his good friend, John Endsley. He was licensed to preach the gospel on Dec. 6, 1967, and was ordained on Sept. 17, 1972. He pastored a number of churches during his many years of spreading "God's Word" and was a member of the Mt. Pleasant Freewill Baptist Church in Poordo.
Ed remarried on July 12, 1999, and spent many happy years with his second wife, Loretta E. (Davis) Lambert. Loretta was previously married to Raymond E. Lambert who died on Feb. 15, 1997, from a heart attack. They (Raymond and Loretta) had two daughters and three sons, all still living: Ellen L. Lambert of Marion, Pauline and husband David Tucker of Nashville, Tenn., Eddie Lambert and wife LaRonda of Crab Orchard, Roy Gene Lambert and wife Lois of Belleville and Jason (Jake) Lambert and his spouse David Murad of Dallas, Texas, as well as a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Ed was preceded in death by his parents, his first wife and four brothers; Gary, Jim, Harold and infant Earl Eugene.
He is survived by his wife Loretta, his children, her children, many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and his brother, George Jackson of Stonefort.
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