| 1. | Laura Frances Jackson was born on 23 Aug 1942 in Jefferson Co, Texas; died on 13 Nov 2002 in Kerr Co, Texas. Notes:
Died:
Deceased Name: LAURA JACKSON HOWE
Services Friday
FREDERICKSBURG - A memorial service for Laura Jackson Howe, 60, will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Kerrville.
Laura passed away Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2002, in Fredericksburg after a long illness. She was born Aug. 23, 1942, in Beaumont and was the daughter of the late Katherine Cook Jackson and Guy Cade Jackson Jr. of Kerrville. Laura was the great-great-granddaughter of two of Texas' early pioneers, Humphrey Jackson of Stephen F. Austin's original 300 Texas colonists, and Alcalde of San Jacinto and James Taylor White I, earliest Anglo cattle rancher in East Texas.
She was a graduate of Anahuac High School in 1960 and attended Stephen's College in Columbia, Mo. She was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Hill Country Cattlewomen's Association and James Taylor White I chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Laura was a past member of Anahuac Assembly of Rainbow for Girls, former Mother Advisor of Kerrville Assembly of Rainbow for Girls and 10-year member of Order of Eastern Star. She was a board member of the Kerrville Independent School District in the early 1970s.
Laura, along with her husband, owned and operated Gallops, a popular riverside café on the Guadalupe River in Hunt, as well as a successful catering business. She was an accomplished chef and cooked with Julia Child at the Aspen Food and Wine Classic in Aspen, Colo., and the International Epicurean Society in San Antonio. In addition, she taught several cooking classes for Macy's in San Antonio.
She is survived by her husband of 40 years, Larry Lyle Howe of Kerrville; three daughters, Laura Katherine Howe of Kerrville, Elizabeth Howe Loggie and husband, Charles Bashum Loggie Jr., of San Antonio and Laura Petsch Lewis of Kerrville; three grandchildren, Francis Mark Howe and Katherine Cade Howe of Kerrville and Olivia Briggs Loggie of San Antonio; grandniece, Sarah Cade Jackson of Kerrville; two brothers, Guy Cade Jackson III and wife, Linda, of Anahuac and James Robert Jackson and wife, Erin, of Beach City; in addition to many nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, other relatives and friends.
Honorary pallbearers are Guy Robert Jackson, Stephen Jackson, Art Wilson, Ridge Floyd, Brent Waldoch, David Ross and Jim Weeks.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 320 St. Peter St., Kerrville, Texas 78028, and Hill Country Memorial Hospital Women's Pavilion, P.O. Box 835, Fredericksburg, Texas 78624.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Overby Funeral Home.
(from Adam Edwards - http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I17798)
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1942 - 2002 (60 years)