Obituaries:  Wilmer Henry Jackson, Sabine, DeSoto Parish       J-250
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Dec 12, 1990
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Wilmer Henry Jackson (Photo)

  Wilmer Henry Jackson, Louisiana Educator, died Saturday,
December 8, 1990, at Schumpert Hospital. Services were held
Tuesday, December 11, 1990, at 2 p.m., at the First Baptist
Church of Logansport. Officiating was Rev. Charles Hall, Rev.
Larry Joyner, and Orville Beam. Interment was in the O. E. Price
Cemetery.

  Mr. Jackson was born February 5, 1909, was the eldest child of
John Seab, and Ida Adams Jackson of Red River Parish, and was a
graduate of Fairview Alpha High School, and Draughton School of
Business. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from
Northwestern State University, pursued graduate studies at LSU,
and received M. Ed. From Stephen F. Austin University. He taught
and coached at Martin High School, before becoming principal of
Fairview Alpha High School in 1934. After 15 years in Red River
Parish, he became principal of Logansport High School, continuing
in that position for 17 years. In 1965 he became a vocational
rehabilitation counselor for the State Dept. of Education,
serving Caddo, DeSoto, Sabine, Red River, and Natchitoches
Parishes. After retirement, he served for 16 years on the Sabine
River Authority Board. Mr. Jackson was a deacon in the First
Baptist Church, where he served as Sunday School Superintendent
for many years. He was a 54 year member of the Masonic Lodge, He
was a York Rite Mason, Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of the
El Karubah Shrine Temple.

  Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Myrtis Lee Heard
Jackson; a daughter and son-in-law, Frances Ruth and Charles
Freeman of Alexandria; one sister, Cecil Murphy of Natchitoches;
one brother, John Clinton Jackson of Coushatta; four
grandchildren, Denise McGrade of Dallas, Tex., Jacqueline Lee
Perez of Chicago, Ill., Leslie Faye Jackson of Raleigh, N. C.,
and Kyle S. Jackson of Houston, Tex.; two grandsons-in-law,
Steven McGrade, and Angel Perez; a great granddaughter, Veronica
Lee Perez; many beloved nieces and nephews.

  Memorials may be made to the W. H. Jackson College Scholarship
Fund administered through the First Baptist Church in Logansport.