Vaudine Jackson, daughter of the late James Dan Goodrich and Mary Hargrove Goodrich, was born on April 27, 1931 in Bono, Arkansas and departed this life on March 10, 2015 at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at the age of 83.

Mrs. Jackson was a member of the First Freewill Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau.  She and her family moved from Kennett to Dexter in 1966 and she worked as a bookkeeper for MFA Grain Company in Dexter.  Mrs. Jackson enjoyed cooking and oil painting and was presently residing in Cape Girardeau.

On June 19, 1956, she was united in marriage to Russell Keith Jackson in Hernando, Mississippi.  Mr. Jackson preceded her in death on February 28, 2002.

She is survived by two daughters, Mary Jo Backfisch and Jeris Knight, both of Dexter; by one sister, Louise McPeters of St. Louis; by five grandchildren, Kristi Allstun, Tammy Boyles, Jaime Lynn Hillis, Joy April Green and Elizabeth Ann Knight; and by six great-grandchildren, Ashley Allstun, James Beauchemin, William Beauchemin, Madison Beauchemin, James Logan Cornett and Delbert Eull Cornett.

In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Judson Goodrich and Ben Goodrich; and by two sisters, Helen Inman and Polly Sisson.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Thursday, March 12, 2015 from 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. 

Funeral services will be conducted in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel on Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 1:00 P.M. with Rev. Vernon Long officiating.

Interment will follow in the Armstead Dowdy Cemetery in Dexter.