Hugh Jones Jackson, 83 year-old resident of Watts, Oklahoma, Citizen of the

Cherokee Nation and WW II Veteran, died February 13, 2008 at Banner

Thunderbird Hospital, Glendale, Arizona. Born October 4, 1924 in Chewey,

Oklahoma, he was the son of Tom Jackson and Minnie Jones. He married

Beverly Jean Lotz on September 17, 1950 in Yuma, Arizona. He lived the last

18 years of his life in Illinois River area near Green Valley where he was

retired. He was preceded in death by; his wife, Beverly, his parents, Tom

and Minnie, two brothers, Howard Jackson and Dee Jones and a sister Lillian

Wiley.

 

Survivors include two sons, Bruce Jackson and wife Karen of Glendale,

Arizona and John Jackson of Watts, Oklahoma; two grandchildren, Jessica

Stringham and husband Jeff of Glendale, Arizona and Christopher Jackson of

Glendale, Arizona; and one great grandchild, Dee Louis Stringham of

Glendale, Arizona and future great grandchild to be born to Jessica and Jeff

in April 2008.