She met her husband in San Francisco, California working as an army nurse. Mrs. Jackson was a special education teacher for many years and retired from the Lafayette Parish school system. She has been a member of Saint Pius X Catholic Church for 36 years. She has many professional accomplishments, but her family remembers her most as a loving wife and one of a kind mother and grandmother. She loved the arts and loved to travel.
Survivors include her husband of 49 years, Robert McHugh Jackson; one son, Rocky Jackson of Lafayette; three daughters, Bridget Huckabay and her husband, Hunter of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Susie Piccione Mitchell and her husband, Leonard of Lafayette, and Becky Clements and her husband, Mike of Los Angeles, California; one brother, Tom Wheelan and his wife, Joyce of Houston, Texas; one sister, Frances Cahalan and her husband, Albert of Payson, Arizona; and seven grandchildren, Caroline Piccione, Jack Piccione, Harper Huckabay, Hunter Grace Huckabay, Jane Clements, Molly Clements and Courtney Weeks.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Clarence and Mae Wheelan of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and her brothers Bob Wheelan of Wyoming and Harry Wheelan of California.
Delhomme Funeral Home, 1011 Bertrand Drive, Lafayette, La., will be in charge of the arrangements.
She met her husband in San Francisco, California working as an army nurse. Mrs. Jackson was a special education teacher for many years and retired from the Lafayette Parish school system. She has been a member of Saint Pius X Catholic Church for 36 years. She has many professional accomplishments, but her family remembers her most as a loving wife and one of a kind mother and grandmother. She loved the arts and loved to travel.
Survivors include her husband of 49 years, Robert McHugh Jackson; one son, Rocky Jackson of Lafayette; three daughters, Bridget Huckabay and her husband, Hunter of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Susie Piccione Mitchell and her husband, Leonard of Lafayette, and Becky Clements and her husband, Mike of Los Angeles, California; one brother, Tom Wheelan and his wife, Joyce of Houston, Texas; one sister, Frances Cahalan and her husband, Albert of Payson, Arizona; and seven grandchildren, Caroline Piccione, Jack Piccione, Harper Huckabay, Hunter Grace Huckabay, Jane Clements, Molly Clements and Courtney Weeks.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Clarence and Mae Wheelan of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and her brothers Bob Wheelan of Wyoming and Harry Wheelan of California.
Delhomme Funeral Home, 1011 Bertrand Drive, Lafayette, La., will be in charge of the arrangements.
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