Brenda Elizabeth Jackson

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at the mortuary, with interment to follow at 1 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado.

She was a nurse.

Memorial contributions to HopeWest, 3090B N. 12th St., Grand Junction 81506, or to Colorado Special Olympics Western Region, P.O. Box 2205, Glenwood Springs 81602.

Brenda Elizabeth Jackson

November 10, 1949 - July 16, 2016

On July 16 Brenda made her journey home into the loving arms of our Heavenly Father and was reunited once again with her beloved Bobby.

Brenda was born in Steubenville, OH, on November 10, 1949, to Doris Grace VanWey. She attended school in Ohio and Alaska until she joined the Army. There she met the love of her life who was also in the Army, Bobby G. Jackson. After being Honorably Discharged, she married Bobby in 1968, and they continued to travel the world for 20 more years while he was in the service. In 1987, they settled down with their three girls in Grand Junction, CO.

Brenda worked for the State of Colorado at the Grand Junction Regional Center for 20 years. In 1991 she graduated Mesa State College as a Registered Nurse, and continued to be a nurse at the Regional Center until she retired in 2007.

She was very passionate about her family and spending quality time with her grandchildren. She loved boating, camping, cooking, and crocheting. She shared treasured moments and many laughs with her close friends, most of which were boating in Lake Powell, even as they continued to figure out who Alice was.

Brenda will be sorely missed and remembered by all. She leaves behind three daughters, Sabrena Jackson of Jacksonville, FL; Kristina Haws-Jackson (Kelly) of Fruita, CO, and Jessica Morris (Bobby) of Grand Junction, CO. She had 11 grandchildren, Christopher, Amanda (James), Patricia (Lucas), Melissa (Joey), Aaron, Kelsey, Kylee, Jackson (Bubby), Makayley, Kayden, Adalynn, and one on the way!; seven great-grandchildren; three brothers, Adam Russell, Benjamin Russell, Ronald Russell; two sisters, Mary Saulnier (Michael), and Ruthie Helman (Eldon); and her uncle, Carl VanWey (Mary) of Mesa, AZ.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Bobby Glen Jackson (38 years); her father, Ronald Russell; her mother, Doris Grace Russell (Maxine), and brother, John Russell. She and Bobby are finally together for eternity, having the dance she so longed for.

A visitation will be held Thursday, July 21, 2016, from 6 - 8:00 p.m. at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary, 2515 Patterson Rd, with a funeral service at 11:00 a.m on Friday, July 22, 2016. Interment will follow at Veteran's Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado, with military honors at 1:00p.m.

In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to HopeWest, 3090B N. 12th Street, Grand Junction, CO 81506, or Colorado Special Olympics Western Region, PO Box 2205, Glenwood Springs, CO 81602.