Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Jackson, Connie Tasker March 17, 2003
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, date unknown
Connie (Hiller) Tasker Jackson, age 88, a lifelong resident of Lake Odessa 
until 1998, passed away on Monday, March 17, 2003, at the Brookhaven Medical 
Facility in Muskegon.

Connie was born in Lake Odessa on April 14, 1914 to Archie and Jennie (Dilley) 
Hiller.  She graduated from Lake Odessa High School in 1933 and Barry County 
Normal in Hastings in 1934.  Connie taught at the West Sebewa Country School 
for three years before marrying Cloise Tasker on Christmas Day 1937.  Together 
they operated Tasker Orchards outside of Lake Odessa for 40 years before 
Cloise’s death on April 29, 1979.  Connie married Burr Jackson, longtime plant 
engineer at the Lake Odessa Canning Company, on October 4, 1980.  Burr passed 
away May 5, 1985.  Throughout her life Connie had been a member of the Lake 
Odessa Mother’s Study Club, West Odessa Missionary Society Quilters, Central 
United Methodist Church, and more recently, before moving to Muskegon, the 
Ionia County Commission on Aging Social-Recreation Program.

Also preceding Connie in death was her twin brother, Calvin Hiller, in 1979, 
and sisters-in-law Virgie Hiller in 1999 and Hildred Clum in 1996.

Connie is survived by her daughter, Alice Tasker of Muskegon, her son Fredric, 
and his wife Katharine Westie of Coral Gables, Florida, granddaughter Anne 
Marie of Coral Gables; niece, Dorothy Brown of Charlotte; stepson Burwayne 
(Anne) Jackson of Mission Viejo, California, stepdaughters, Janet (Ted) Boyden 
of Montague, and Judy (Keith) Laidler of Grand Ledge; and her long-time friend 
and caregiver, Betty Smith.

Funeral services are 1 p.m. Friday at the Koops Funeral Chapel in Lake Odessa 
where the family will receive friends from 11 a.m. until the time of service.  
Burial will be in Lakeside Cemetery.  Memorial contributions may be made to 
the Central United Methodist Church of the Alzheimer’s Association


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