Obituary of Prentice R. Jackson

PRENTICE ROBERTSON JACKSON, JR., PASSED AWAY SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 IN READING, PENNSYLVANIA. HE WAS 83 YEARS OLD. BORN IN HAWKINSVILLE, GEORGIA ON FEBRUARY 25, 1929, HE WAS THE SON OF THE LATE PRENTICE R. JACKSON, SR. AND MARY BRAGG JACKSON OF TALLADEGA, ALABAMA. HE WAS A GRADUATE OF AUBURN UNIVERSITY AND BEGAN HIS CAREER IN THE GAS BUSINESS WITH HIS FATHER IN TALLADEGA. HE LATER JOINED WARREN PETROLEUM, DIVISION OF GULF OIL. HE RETIRED IN TAMPA, FLORIDA AS SOUTHEASTERN U. S. DISTRICT MANAGER IN 1985. HIS MAIN HOBBY WAS GOLF. MR. JACKSON IS PRECEEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE, DOTTIE, OF 60 YEARS, WHO WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MACON AND JULIA DONAHOO OF ALPINE, ALABAMA. HE IS SURVIVED BY A SON, PRENTICE R. (BOB) JACKSON, III, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, A DAUGHTER, JULIE JACKSON LUCY OF READING, PA, SIX GRANDCHILDREN, TWO GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, AND A SISTER, JEAN JACKSON MASSEY, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA. PRIOR TO MOVING TO READING, MR. JACKSON RESIDED IN ADVANCE, NORTH CAROLINA WHERE HE ATTENDED CLEMMONS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.