Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
4:43 pm Monday, May 19, 2014

Mary Howell Jackson

Mary Howell Jackson

May 17, 2014

Mary Howell Jackson, 79, of Russellville, passed away Saturday, May 17, 2014.

Mary was born in Hamilton and was a graduate of Hamilton High School.  She later was a graduate of the University of Alabama.  She was a first grade teacher in the Russellville City School system and retired from there after 33 years of teaching.  She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Russellville.  Mary loved gardening and loved beautiful flowers.

Visitation will be from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at Pinkard Funeral Home Chapel, Russellville, with the funeral to be held at 2:00. Burial will be in Fulton Bridge Church Cemetery in Hamilton.

Survivors include husband, Gerald Jackson; sisters, Enice Howell Turner, Wetumka, Louise Howell Smith, Trussville; brother, Bryan Howell, Gardendale; nephews, Reagan Howell and wife, Betty, Gardendale, John Howell, Washougal, Wash., Fred Gault and wife, Norma, Chattanooga, Tenn., Neal Turner, Jr., and wife, Laurie, Montgomery, Mark Smith and wife, Lynn, Birmingham, Jay Smith and wife, Vickie, Birmingham; nieces, Martha Turner Jackson, Montgomery, Deborah Smith Scott and husband, Wayne, Chattanooga, Tenn., Beverly Howell Deal and husband, Richard, Sheffield; several grand-nephews and nieces.

She was preceded in death by, parents, Rufus Bryan Howell and Alice Dill Howell; brother, Bobby Howell; sisters, Eunice Howell Gault, Jeanette Howell; nephew, Tommy Smith.

Special thanks to the staff of Helen Keller Hospital, the staff of Terrace Manor Nursing Home, AlaCare Home Health Services and to Dr. Richard Deal.

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