Jane A. Jackson

Loving daughter, wife, mother and sister and a truly lovely lady has passed away on Sunday, November 26, at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth. She was 97. Born in Barnstable, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of the late Bernard and Elizabeth (Oliver) Aikens and the sister of the late Arnold Thurlow Aikens of Miami, Florida. She graduated from Barnstable High School.

She married Franklin Piece Jackson, II in June, 1953, and they had recently celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary and 68th year of Scituate residence. They were blessed with two sons, Franklin Pierce Jackson, III and his wife, Ann Almeida Jackson, Jeffrey Adams Jackson and his wife Hilary Higgins Jackson and their daughters Meghan and Olivia Jackson. Also a niece, Mrs Richard Day, and nephew, Mr. Peter Foss.

Jane pursued her love of fashion and interior design beginning with The House of Tweed on Newbury Street, Boston and the original Abercrombie & Fitch in New York and Hyannis. She was a member of Hatherly Country Club in Scituate.

The sea in Scituate and her gardens, and for many years in Sanibel, Florida, was her life and dream and she was also so very proud of and loved every moment with her family.

It was her wish that services were private.

With you a part of me hath passed away:

For the peopled forest of my mind

A tree made leafless by this wintry wind

Shall never don again it’s green array

Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would I could never find,

And I am grown much older in a day

But yet I treasure in my memory

Your gift of charity, and young heart’s ease,

And the dear honor of your amity;

For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater be— What I keep of you, or you take from me.

(From “Poems” by George Santayana.)