Nettie Jane Jackson-Kittle, 64, Scranton, PA passed away unexpectedly at home on Thursday, May 1.
Born in Mount Orab, Ohio, daughter of the late J. Pierce and Ocie Howlett Jackson, she married Steven Kittle in late 1981 in Denver, Colo., but was divorced 13 years later. She was a 1968 graduate of Skyline High School, Urbana, Missouri and the University of Denver, where she received her master's degree in social service in 1984. Nettie was a U.S. Air Force veteran and devoted social worker, who would lend a helping hand to a family member or a stranger. She enjoyed traveling and shopping when she wasn't helping others. In her youth, she loved to sing in choir. She became an accomplished seamstress, making her own prom gown and later doing tayloring work for adults. More recently, she was restoring an old home in Scranton.
Surviving are a son, Raymond and wife, Cassie, Scranton, PA; two grandsons, Dylan and Aidan; three brothers, Edwin Lee Jackson, Jefferson City, Mo.; Hank Jackson, Holts Summit, Mo.; and James Jackson, Urbana, Mo.; three sisters, Etta Sue Bobbett and husband Jim, Lincoln, Neb.; Elma Lou Burke and husband, Roger, Houston, Texas; and Esther Laura Jackson, Nevada, Mo.; nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was also preceded in death by two brothers, J.W. "Jay" Jackson (1976) and her twin brother, Freddie Joe Jackson (1999).
The funeral service will be Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Thomas J. Hughes Funeral Home Inc., 1240 St. Ann's St., Scranton, PA 18504. Interment, Bowers Chapel Cemetery, Urbana, Mo. Friends may call Tuesday from 5 p.m. until the time of service.
Published in Scranton Times on May 3, 2014 and in The News Leader of Springfield, Mo., on May 6, 2014.
Born in Mount Orab, Ohio, daughter of the late J. Pierce and Ocie Howlett Jackson, she married Steven Kittle in late 1981 in Denver, Colo., but was divorced 13 years later. She was a 1968 graduate of Skyline High School, Urbana, Missouri and the University of Denver, where she received her master's degree in social service in 1984. Nettie was a U.S. Air Force veteran and devoted social worker, who would lend a helping hand to a family member or a stranger. She enjoyed traveling and shopping when she wasn't helping others. In her youth, she loved to sing in choir. She became an accomplished seamstress, making her own prom gown and later doing tayloring work for adults. More recently, she was restoring an old home in Scranton.
Surviving are a son, Raymond and wife, Cassie, Scranton, PA; two grandsons, Dylan and Aidan; three brothers, Edwin Lee Jackson, Jefferson City, Mo.; Hank Jackson, Holts Summit, Mo.; and James Jackson, Urbana, Mo.; three sisters, Etta Sue Bobbett and husband Jim, Lincoln, Neb.; Elma Lou Burke and husband, Roger, Houston, Texas; and Esther Laura Jackson, Nevada, Mo.; nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was also preceded in death by two brothers, J.W. "Jay" Jackson (1976) and her twin brother, Freddie Joe Jackson (1999).
The funeral service will be Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Thomas J. Hughes Funeral Home Inc., 1240 St. Ann's St., Scranton, PA 18504. Interment, Bowers Chapel Cemetery, Urbana, Mo. Friends may call Tuesday from 5 p.m. until the time of service.
Published in Scranton Times on May 3, 2014 and in The News Leader of Springfield, Mo., on May 6, 2014.
Nettie Jane Jackson-Kittle, 64, Scranton, PA passed away unexpectedly at home on Thursday, May 1.
Born in Mount Orab, Ohio, daughter of the late J. Pierce and Ocie Howlett Jackson, she married Steven Kittle in late 1981 in Denver, Colo., but was divorced 13 years later. She was a 1968 graduate of Skyline High School, Urbana, Missouri and the University of Denver, where she received her master's degree in social service in 1984. Nettie was a U.S. Air Force veteran and devoted social worker, who would lend a helping hand to a family member or a stranger. She enjoyed traveling and shopping when she wasn't helping others. In her youth, she loved to sing in choir. She became an accomplished seamstress, making her own prom gown and later doing tayloring work for adults. More recently, she was restoring an old home in Scranton.
Surviving are a son, Raymond and wife, Cassie, Scranton, PA; two grandsons, Dylan and Aidan; three brothers, Edwin Lee Jackson, Jefferson City, Mo.; Hank Jackson, Holts Summit, Mo.; and James Jackson, Urbana, Mo.; three sisters, Etta Sue Bobbett and husband Jim, Lincoln, Neb.; Elma Lou Burke and husband, Roger, Houston, Texas; and Esther Laura Jackson, Nevada, Mo.; nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was also preceded in death by two brothers, J.W. "Jay" Jackson (1976) and her twin brother, Freddie Joe Jackson (1999).
The funeral service will be Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Thomas J. Hughes Funeral Home Inc., 1240 St. Ann's St., Scranton, PA 18504. Interment, Bowers Chapel Cemetery, Urbana, Mo. Friends may call Tuesday from 5 p.m. until the time of service.
Published in Scranton Times on May 3, 2014 and in The News Leader of Springfield, Mo., on May 6, 2014.
Born in Mount Orab, Ohio, daughter of the late J. Pierce and Ocie Howlett Jackson, she married Steven Kittle in late 1981 in Denver, Colo., but was divorced 13 years later. She was a 1968 graduate of Skyline High School, Urbana, Missouri and the University of Denver, where she received her master's degree in social service in 1984. Nettie was a U.S. Air Force veteran and devoted social worker, who would lend a helping hand to a family member or a stranger. She enjoyed traveling and shopping when she wasn't helping others. In her youth, she loved to sing in choir. She became an accomplished seamstress, making her own prom gown and later doing tayloring work for adults. More recently, she was restoring an old home in Scranton.
Surviving are a son, Raymond and wife, Cassie, Scranton, PA; two grandsons, Dylan and Aidan; three brothers, Edwin Lee Jackson, Jefferson City, Mo.; Hank Jackson, Holts Summit, Mo.; and James Jackson, Urbana, Mo.; three sisters, Etta Sue Bobbett and husband Jim, Lincoln, Neb.; Elma Lou Burke and husband, Roger, Houston, Texas; and Esther Laura Jackson, Nevada, Mo.; nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was also preceded in death by two brothers, J.W. "Jay" Jackson (1976) and her twin brother, Freddie Joe Jackson (1999).
The funeral service will be Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Thomas J. Hughes Funeral Home Inc., 1240 St. Ann's St., Scranton, PA 18504. Interment, Bowers Chapel Cemetery, Urbana, Mo. Friends may call Tuesday from 5 p.m. until the time of service.
Published in Scranton Times on May 3, 2014 and in The News Leader of Springfield, Mo., on May 6, 2014.
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