Mildred Alice Jackson

Mildred Alice Jones Jackson was born October 2, 1932 and passed away suddenly in Wilmington at New Hanover Regional Medical Center on May 4, 2021 from congestive heart failure and vascular dementia.

Alice met her high school sweetheart, Nathaniel Macon Jackson, Jr, they were married in 1953 and had three children, David Jackson, of Honolulu, HI, Ann Hardwick, of Raleigh, and Susan Croom, husband Troy, of Topsail Beach. She worked at Wachovia Bank, the North Carolina Legislature, volunteered at Millbrook United Methodist Church and sang in the choir. She loved to paint, sew, shop, collect everything, (let us know if you need a salt & pepper shaker set), and talk on the phone. She had the gift of gab and could and would talk for hours to people. She coined the phrase, “just sit down and talk to me a minute.” In 1 Samuel 16:7, the Lord said to Samuel, “for the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” And that was Alice, she looked at people’s hearts, she felt their triumphs and their pain, and she loved openly. Her life was a living example of her favorite Bible verse, Ephesians 4:32, “be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving of one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” She was a kind-hearted human with a big smile.

Her passion was her family whom she loved unconditionally and abundantly. She is preceded in death by her husband, Macon, her mother and father, Frank B. Jones and Mildred Averette, her sister, Louise Hall, and her brother Frank L. Jones. She is survived by her sisters, Lena Pritchard, husband Bill and Mary Clifton, husband Beau and her brother Thomas Jones, wife Betty. They were her foundation. She made it a point to try and talk to them almost daily. Whether trying to figure out the cryptoquote in the paper, trading recipes, or just checking on their children.

She was blessed or obsessed, depending on how you looked at it, with her grandchildren. Chad Emerick, Natalie Shepard, husband Zack, Brandon Croom, wife Courtney, Caitlin Croom, and Nathaniel W.H. Jackson. And just recently her first great grandchild, Henry Shepard. It did not matter what time of day it was, if she was on the phone with someone, if they reached out, they came first. They were her heart and soul. She was also blessed with so many nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews and great-great nieces and nephews.

Alice was not perfect, but she loved hard, she tried her best, and she was a great wife, mother, sister, grandmother, aunt, and friend.

A celebration of Alice’s life will be Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. at Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh, NC.