home in Kingsport, TN.
Valerie was a Christian woman with a beautiful heart. She helped so many even when she was so very ill.
She always made sure her children were happy and supported through various football and band
functions. She was a one-of-a-kind wife, mother, and friend to all who knew her. She enjoyed sitting on
her porch in the sunshine, and loved her three dogs, Sadie, Max, & Kate.
She is preceded in death by her father, George Allen Surgenor Jr., her birth mother, Linda Helen Powers,
and uncles, Steve Surgenor & Joe Gilreath.
She is survived by her husband, Richard Jackson; children, Meghan Mosley & husband Auburn, and
Matthew Medlin; the mother who raised her from a child, Nola Surgenor; siblings, Vicki Leftwich &
husband Jackie, and Tracy Conkin; aunts, Evelyn Birchfield & husband Jim, Maxine Surgenor, Mary Alice
Kinsler & husband Larry, and Argelene Barnette & husband Keith, and Mary Gilreath; uncle, Michael
Surgenor & wife Frankie; several other loved aunts & uncles; several other precious cousins.
The family will receive friends on Friday, November 27, 2020 from 5:00 to 7:00pm at East Lawn Funeral Home.