Worth H. Jackson

Worth Holder Jackson, age 97, of Oak Island, formerly of Raleigh and Wake Forest, died January 10, 2011 in Southport, NC at Dosher Memorial Hospital Nursing Center.
A memorial service will be held 2:00 p.m. Wednesday in the New Hope Baptist Church old sanctuary, 4301 Louisburg Road, Raleigh, NC. Interment will follow the service in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends 12:30-2:00 p.m. prior to the service in the main church narthex.
Worth Jackson was married for 62 years to the late Mildred German Jackson.
Worth is survived by a sister, Elizabeth Jackson House of Knightdale.; a son Worth Carlton Jackson and wife, Mary Anne of Arlington, TX; a daughter Nancy J. Killion of Black Mountain; a son Alan N. Jackson and wife Jane of Cary; a daughter Mary Alice J. Walters and husband Jerry of Oak Island; eight grandchildren: Ms. Carla Jackson of Centenial, CO; Len Horton of Boone; Mrs. Beth J. Caldwell of Arlington, TX; Matthew Horton of Raleigh, NC; Carl Jackson of Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland; Mrs. Rachel J. Belanger of Tempe, AZ; Eric Walters of Oak Island; Amy Walters of Wilson; and by twelve great-grandchildren.
Born in Wake County, the eldest of six children of the late Alvester James and Nannie Holder Jackson, Worth lived most of his life in Wake County. He was a graduate of Hugh Morson High School in Raleigh, and the World War II Industry Preparation Program at N.C. State College. During WWII he was a inspector of Navy aircraft at Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore.
He was a member of New Hope Baptist Church for fifty-seven years, and a deacon emeritus. Worth loved music and taught himself to play the piano. He sang in the choirs of Tabernacle, New Hope, & Oak Island Baptist churches and taught a Sunday School Class for many years. He was active in civic affairs all his adult life. Worth was a former President of the Millbrook Elementary & High School PTA, a founding member of the New Hope Volunteer Fire Department, and a former President of the Northern Wake County Senior Citizens Center.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the music program in one’s own church, New Hope Baptist of Raleigh, or First Baptist of Oak Island.