Centenarian veteran to be parade's grand marshal Local News MuskogeePhoenix
When Muskogee has its annual veterans parade Nov. 9, Jack H. Jackson will have a special place.
I worked at the mental hospital at Taft 13 years, Jackson said. that,
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Jackson daughter,
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Being in the parade is just one of the good times Jackson expects to have in November. On Nov. 17,
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Evelyn Jackson said she proud of her husband, he lived to be as old as he is.
experienced a lot of things he wouldn have if he hadn have went into the Army, she said. went places he wouldn have gone if he wasn in the Army.
Jackson added, seen a lot of people over 100 years. I joined the church when I was 11 years old.
He went to Haskell school until the eighth grade,
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was nothing else to do out in the country, he said. was cheap then. We worked for a dollar and a quarter an hour. I farmed with a team of horses. We didn have no tractor then. In later years I got one.
Jackson now lives in an assisted living center in Muskogee,
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McDaniel said she expects her brothers and sisters to make it to the parade.
The family joined Jackson when he celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this year,
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Garrison said Jackson might even be the oldest African American veteran of World War II in the country.
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