Obit of Jackson, Grady - Custer County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillo.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillo.com/ 29 May 2011 Return to Custer County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/custer/custer.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Memorial Park Cemetery--Amarillo TX Amarillo Globe News 10 Jan 1998 Grady Jackson Grady Jackson, 81, of Amarillo, died Thursday, Jan. 8, 1998. Services will be at 4 p.m. today in Central Church of Christ with Dick Marcear, minister, and Paul Sneed officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2820 Virginia Circle. Mr. Jackson was born in Colorado City and had lived in Amarillo for 57 years. He worked for the Borden Co. for 10 years before becoming the owner and operator of the Denver Lunch, a restaurant located at the Fort Worth and Denver Railyards, for about five years, the Colonial Cafeteria in Wolflin Village for 20 years and Jackson's Cafeteria in Pampa for five years. He was a member and deacon at Central Church of Christ and a longtime member and a former president of Tascosa Kiwanis Club. He married Erma Gardenhire in 1941 at Arapaho, Okla. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Peggy Bell. Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Linda Anderson of Amarillo; three grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. The family requests memorials be to High Plains Children's Home, 11461 S. Western St., 79118 or the Todd Anderson Memorial Scholarship Fund, c/o Amarillo Area Foundation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Custer County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/custer/custer.htm