Ethel Burnett Jackson

The funeral service for Ethel Burnett Jackson, 84, of Columbia, will be held at 2 o’clock, Friday, May 20, 2011, at Bayview Baptist Church with The Rev. David Bentley and Rev. Shane Phillips officiating. Serving as active pallbearers will be, Paul Jackson, Keith Mooneyham, Travis Jackson, Mark Kirlough, Jason Mooneyham and Brad Sox. Interment will follow in Crescent Hill Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 o’clock, Thursday evening at Shives Funeral Home, Colonial Chapel, 5202 Colonial Drive. Memorials may be made to Bayview Baptist Church, 5300 Two Notch Rd., Columbia, SC 29204.

Mrs. Jackson died Tuesday, May 17, 2011. She was born July 17, 1926, in Polk County, North Carolina, to the late T. B. Odel and Mae Burnett. She chose to invest her life in her family as a homemaker and earned the nickname “Super Mom”. Mrs. Jackson was a member of Bayview Baptist Church.

Survivors include two daughters, Carolyn (Ray David) Mooneyham of Columbia, and Glenda (Bobby) Mooneyham of Lexington; two sons, Ronald (Trish) Jackson of Columbia, and Richard (Mary Lou) Jackson of Leesville; thirteen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren; a brother, Clyde Odel of Salisbury, NC; and a sister, Nannie Sue Skipper of Columbus, NC. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Jackson was preceded in death by her husband, Paul E. Jackson; son, Kenneth Jackson; great grandson, Luke Anthony Jackson; two sisters and two brothers.