Beatrice Jackson, daughter of the late Chiles Foster and Maybel Lynch Foster was born on October 24, 1932 in Hayti, Missouri and departed this life on June 8, 2017 at the Sikeston Convalescent Center at the age of 84.

Mrs. Jackson was a member of the Faith Fellowship Church, a home-maker and a resident of Dexter.  

On March 4, 1949, she was united in marriage to Clarence E. Jackson in McDougal, Arkansas.  Mr. Jackson preceded her in death on December 1, 1986.

She is survived by one son, David Jackson of Dexter; by two daughters, Janice Gadberry and her husband C.L. of Sikeston and Judy White and her husband Gene of Princeton, Kentucky; by two sisters, Opal Thrasher of Granite City, Illinois and Dessie Williams of Centralia, Illinois; by five grandchildren, Jimmy Gadberry, Timothy Gadberry, Matthew Gadberry, Aaron Carter and Danny Philpott and by nine great-grandchildren.

Besides her husband and parents she was preceded in death by three brothers, Joe David Foster, Charles Foster and J C Moody; by three sisters, Claudine Nixon, Diane Glenn and Wynona Foster and by one grandchild, Misty Carter.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Monday, June 12, 2017 from 1:00 P.M. until 2:00 P.M. 

Funeral services will then be conducted on Monday at 2:00 P.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter with Rev. Shirley McRoy and Pastor Bonnie Cannel officiating. 

Interment will follow in the Hagy Cemetery in Dexter.