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- Ralph was a consulting geophysicist in Beeville and the author of Home on the Double Bayou, an account of life on the JHK ranch in Chambers, TX.
A copy of the book was given to me by my granfmother on my 18th birthday.
RALPH S. JACKSON, 54, died in a Houston hospital Friday after a five day illiness. Had lived in Beeville since 1946. Was consulting geophysicist. Member board of directors of Commercial National Bank of Beeville. Wrote the book, "Home on the Double Bayou", which was the story of his life. Past president of the board of Trustees of the Beeville Board of trustees of the Beeville Independent School District, Member of the excutive board of the Alamo Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Past president of the Beeville Rotary Club. Was an elder in the First Presbyterion Church. He was a member of the committee and a driving force in the drive to secure a memorial hospital for Bee County. He was chairman of the hospital advisory committee. Survivors; wife, Mrs. Dauris Ray Jackson, Beeville; daughter, Mrs. W.D. Grandberry, Tulsa, Okla; sons, Ralph S. Jackson Jr., Beeville, James C. Jackson, Beeville; two grandchildren; brothers, Judge Guy C. Jackson Jr.; anahuac, Lt/Col Horace R. Jackson, U.S. Army in Germany; sisters, Mrs. E.C. Scott, Anahuac, Mrs. Roy Dawson, Anahuac. Funeral services 4 pm Saturday Frist Metholdist Church; Beeville, Rev. J.M. Lunsford officiating. Burial in Glenwood Cemetery under direction of the Galloway-Wilson Funeral Home, Beeville.
- JCP
(from Adam Edwards -
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I17769)
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