Mr. Allen Jackson

Allen Jackson created the “Fuel Fund” which helped elderly and low income families with their fuel bills …now a national program that has saved many lives. For this service the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company honored Jackson as the “Humanitarian of the Year”.

Allen was born on October 4, 1931 and was the honor graduate and track star of the class of 1949 at the Annapolis High School, and he is listed on its “Wall of Fame”. He attended St. John’s College and graduated from the University of Maryland in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. Later on he became a Diamond Back Terrapin and was a member of the University’s Presidents Club. After college, he served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force.

In his newspaper career, Jackson was advertising director of the Annapolis Daily Capital-Gazette Newspapers. In 1969, he founded the Anne Arundel Times, Severna Park Village Voice and the Entertainer newspaper with his wife Frances and his late brother Jay Jackson. He was president and publisher until he sold his newspaper in 1981. For the next several years he became a newspaper consultant for several southern states dailies. Also, Jackson was president of the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association.

Allen was chairman of the Anne Arundel Community College’s bull roast fundraiser, and he was recognized as the oldest member of the Annapolis Rotary Club (over 50 years). He was also presented a pin from the Annapolis Yacht Club for a 65 year membership. He was a member of the Alumni Association of St. Johns College and the University of Maryland, a member of Saint Anne’s Episcopal Church, the U.S. Navy Academy Golf Club.

Allen and Fran lived in Naples, FL for many years. While in Florida, Jackson chaired the marketing committee of the Wyndemere Country Club and he was the volunteer fundraising chairman of the community’s large Art Center in Naples’s downtown Cambier Park.

A recognized watercolor artist, Jackson was a member of the Annapolis Watercolor Club and the Naples Art Association, and his award winning paintings hang on many private collections along the East Coast.

Allen and Fran moved back to Annapolis so they could enjoy being with their grandchildren. He abandoned his golf and watercolor painting, due to complications to Parkinsons Disease.

Allen is survived by his wife, Frances, daughters Katherine Jean Stanfield and Elizabeth Allen Wilbourne and four grandchildren. Clare and Cade Stanfield and Riley and Dare Wilbourne.

There will be a Memorial Celebration later this fall. Memorial contributions can be made to the American Parkinson’s Disease Association, 135 Parkinson Avenue, Statin Island, New York 10305.