Jackson, Raymond Edmond 


GILMER -- Services for Raymond Edmond Jackson, 65, of Gilmer, will 
be held 2 p.m. Wednesday, August 30, 2006, at Croley Funeral Home 
Chapel, with Pastor Gregory Robison officiating. Burial will be in 
Sunset Memorial Park of Gilmer. Mr. Jackson passed away Sunday, 
August 27, 2006, in Tyler. Mr. Jackson was born March 22, 1941, in 
Avinger, to Mancil Holeman and Lois Irene Dunbar Jackson. In 1961, 
he married Carla Carpenter in Palestine. He served in the United 
States Air Force, and was an oil and gas distributor. He is survived 
by his wife, Carla Jackson of Gilmer; mother, Lois Irene Jenkins of 
Athens; daughters and sons-in-law, Diana and Philip Quinn, Susie and 
John Bullock of Gilmer, and Paula and Greg Robison of Grandbury; son 
and daughter-in-law, Bryan and Julie Jackson of Gilmer; brother, Elvis 
Jackson of Chandler; two sisters, Anne Cooper of Canton, and Wanda 
Wilson of Longview; and six grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Louie 
English, James Patterson, Jerry Farmer, Bobby Johnson, Billy Davis, 
B.J. Blackmon, Bob Peddy, and Jerry Cromer. Honorary pallbearers will 
be Larry Loyd, R.D. "Buck" Cross, and James Johnson. Visitation will 
be 6-8 p.m. Tuesday evening, August 28, 2006, at Croley Funeral Home 
in Gilmer.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 8/29/2006.