Farrell Jackson, son of the late Lon and Jessie Gertrude Parks Jackson was born on April 22, 1931 in Aid, Missouri and departed this life on July 4, 2015 at the Southeast Health of Cape Girardeau at the age of 84.

Mr. Jackson was a Veteran of the United States Army, serving in the Korean War.  He was an active member of the Liberty Hill General Baptist Church in Aid, he was a farmer and a resident of Dexter.

On January 5, 1951 he was united in marriage to Doris Jean Cryts in Dexter.  Mrs. Jackson survives of their home.

Besides his wife he is survived by one daughter, Sandra Hendricks and her husband Brent of Miner, Missouri; by their daughter in law Melanie Jackson Stoelting and her husband Keith Stoelting of Dudley; by one brother, Gerald and his wife Wanda Jackson of Dexter; by one sister, Pauline Gaskins of Dexter; by four grandchildren, Brooke Buchanan, Nathan Jackson, Blake Hendricks and Natalie Woodbury and by four great-grandchildren, Jake Buchanan, Piper Buchanan, Riley Buchanan and Harper Jackson.

Besides his parents he was preceded in death by one son, Keith Alan Jackson.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel on Monday, July 6, 2015 from 9:00 A.M. until 10:30 A.M. 

Funeral services will follow at 10:30 A.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel with Rev. Joe Payne officiating. 

Interment will follow in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield with full military honors.

In lieu of flowers the family requests all memorials be made to the Liberty Hill Building Fund, 12760 C.R. 420, Dexter, Missouri 63841 OR  the O.A.K.S., 23 West Stoddard Street, Dexter, Missouri 63841.