Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Jackson, Robert Dempsey August 1, 1942
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Dan Lindley Danoh19344@hotmail.com March 23, 2006, 8:47 am

Daily Local News, August 3, 1942


Robert Dempsey Jackson, a well known resident of West Chester, passed away 
Saturday evening at 8:45 o’clock at his home, 221 West Washington Street, 
after a lingering illness.  Mr. Jackson, aged 54, was born in West Chester, a 
son of Georganna R and the late William A. Jackson.  He was a veteran of World 
War No. 1. For many years he had been engaged in the antique business and 
buying of furs and enjoyed the acquaintance and esteem of many merchants in 
West Chester and the surrounding towns, as well as Wilmington, Delaware, where 
his integrity as a produce distributor was appreciated. In his youth he sang 
in the choir of the Church of the Holy Trinity.  He is survived by his wife, 
Esther M. (nee Gray), and seven children: three sons, Robert D., Jr., Dempsey 
William and Brinton Merkel, and four daughters, Dorothy Ida, Nancy Jane, 
Bertha Esther, at home, and Mrs. Elizabeth Christopher, of Willistown.  There 
are two grandchildren.  A sister, Hazel R., wife of William J. Stalker, and 
mother, Georganna R. Jackson, also survive.
 
Ibid:
JACKSON- In West Chester, on August 1, Robert Dempsey, husband of Esther M. 
Jackson, in the 55th year of his age.  Relatives and friends of the family are 
invited to attend the funeral without further notice from the Hicks Funeral 
Home, 229 S. High Street, West Chester, on Tuesday, August 4th, at 2 p.m.  
Interment at Greenmount Cemetery. Friends may call Monday evening.


This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/

File size: 2.0 Kb