Evelyn Naomi Jackson, Age 66, of Greenville passed away on Saturday, August 2, 2008 at her residence. Services will be held at 10:00 AM on Tuesday at Coker-Mathews Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. John Tate officiating. Burial will follow at Memoryland Memorial Park. Visitation will be on Monday evening from 6 to 8 PM at the funeral home.
Mrs. Jackson was born on September 25, 1941 in Greenville, Texas to George Wright Sockwell and Opal May Bell Sockwell. On September 15, 1961, she married Johnny Morgan Jackson in Greenville, Texas. She was a housewife, mother, and owned the Love Bug Boutique from 1980 to 1989. She was a member of Central Christian Church and belonged to the Christian Women Fellowship.
Her survivors include her husband, Johnny of Greenville; son, Johnny Jackson, Jr. and wife, Teresa of Allen; daughter, Jennifer Lynn Jackson Bobst and husband, Dan of Heath; grandchildren, Alexis, Brody, and Brianna Bobst of Heath and Ruby Jackson of Allen.
She was preceded in death by her parents and brothers, James Glen Sockwell and George Harle Sockwell, and aunt and uncle, Earl and Ruby Bingham.
Gerald Hall, John Harvey, Doug Jackson, Butch Mitchell, Tim Newland, and Kenneth Peters will serve as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Lynn Jackson, Wayne Jackson, Jeffery Jackson, and Richard Willis.
Family requests memorials be made to the Central Christian Church Window Fund, 2611 Wesley St., Greenville, TX 75401.
