Margie D Jackson

“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”

Margie D. Jackson succumbed to the effects of time and hard-mileage at the age of 86 in the physical therapy wing of Ridgecrest Nursing Home in Jonesboro, Arkansas on Friday February 23rd, 2024.

Margie is survived by her first husband - Billy Joe Davis of Heber Springs; one brother - Buddy Jackson of Halls, TN; her sister - Shirley Tillman of Memphis, TN; two children – Lori Culbreath of Bismarck, and Billy Joe Davis, II of Jonesboro. She is additionally survived by generations of grandchildren, and many more relatives and friends.

Margie was preceded in death by her parents – Jesse Grey Jackson and Annie Elizabeth Jackson-Jackson of Lauderdale County, TN; three brothers – Avery Glen Jackson of Bourbonnais, Illinois; Perry Jackson of Halls, TN; and Charles Jackson - also of Halls, TN; other siblings who died in infancy or childhood; three daughters who died in infancy; her second husband - Frank Tripplett  of Doniphan, Missouri; her last husband - Eldred Keeling of Enid, OK; - and many other relatives and friends.

Margie was a child of the Great Depression era. As a child in a tenet-farmer family she picked cotton to help the family get by and to buy clothes for herself and her sister. She fought hard for everything she ever had during her life, and while she never achieved fame or fortune – she lived independently in her own home until the last month of her life, when she was taken against her wishes to be hospitalized due to her failing health. She was loved – although sometimes very tenuously – by all who knew her.

Margie is well qualified to be an icon for the struggles and triumphs of her generation.

Margie relied heavily upon the shed blood of Jesus Christ for her faith to keep moving forward and for her hope of resurrection into a new life with her loving Creator. She died peacefully in her sleep sometime between three and five o’clock in the last morning of her journey.

There will be no formal memorial service. Margie’s remains will be interred beside the graves of her passed daughters, and between the graves of her parents.

Emerson Funeral Home in Jonesboro, Arkansas will be providing the necessary services.