Jessie Jean Luckhart

Jessie Jean Sloan Luckhart passed away peacefully at age 92 on Monday, May 22, 2023. Jessie was born in Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania on November 28, 1930 to Lois Bernice Reddicliff Sloan and Francis L. Sloan. She graduated from Windber High School in 1948 and pursued her dream of becoming a registered nurse graduating from Indiana School of Nursing in 1951. Jessie married her husband, William R. Luckhart, on November 21, 1956.

After relocating to Huntsville, Alabama in 1960, Jessie raised her family in the same home for over 60 years, 25 of which she worked at Huntsville Hospital. She lived with her daughter, Barbara Jean Winkler, in Estillfork, Alabama for the last two years before passing away in the Highlands Health and Rehabilitation Facility in Scottsboro, Alabama.

Jessie loved spending time with her family, reading, traveling, and going to casinos. Along with doing her crossword puzzles, playing card games, and reading, Jessie was a collector of dolls, records, movies, books, and trinkets. Her favorite, most cherished, collectables were her Nativity scenes which she kept on display year-round. Jessie had a loving, gentle, and quiet spirit. She had a brightness about her that never dimed. Through her eyes and her smile, Jessie’s love for her family was crystal clear. Her family takes solace in knowing that Jessie loved our Lord and Savior and that she has joined her parents and husband in the Kingdom of Heaven where we will see them again one day.

Jessie was preceded in death by her husband of 66 years, William R. Luckhart, a Chrysler Corp retiree and an Air Force veteran of the Korean War who passed on June 17, 2010.

She is survived by her siblings, Betsy Quinn, Vonnie Lehmann, Tom Sloan, and John Sloan; three sons, Jerry, Bill and Tim Luckhart; one daughter, Barbie Winkler; seven grandchildren; eleven great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Visitation for Jessie will be held Thursday, May 25, 2023 from 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM at Valhalla Funeral Home, 698 Winchester Rd Ne, Huntsville, Alabama 35811. Followed by a celebration of her life service at 2:30 PM in the Valhalla Funeral Home Chapel.Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.valhallafunerals.com for the Luckhart family.