Juanita Hazel Rose Jackson, a quiet affable lady with a sense of humor, died at Windemere on Friday, November 20, 2015. She was 96.
Juanita moved to Vineyard Haven from Boston three years ago when it became difficult to manage alone to stay with her daughter, Joyce Rickson. She spent some time at the Henrietta Brewer House until she moved to Windemere where she declined.
Juanita was on December 29, 1919, and grew up in New Bedford in a family of whalers and businessmen who were movers. She had two older sisters, Virginia and Catherine, and two brothers, one older, Clinton or “Bill,” and one younger, Fabe. All are deceased.
Juanita was five-years-old when her mother, Alice Fabio Rose, died. When she was 16, her grandmother sent her to Boston to join her father, Charles Rose and her two sisters. At the age of 18, she was married to Bertram Jackson, a mariner and a skipper in the Merchant Marines during WWII. He was also a musician and played tympani with the Boston Community orchestra. They had two children, Bert of Detroit, and Joyce of Vineyard Haven.
Juanita, a hard worker, retired from Polaroid in Cambridge where she maintained clerical storage room and copying volumes of research material.
Her hobbies were reading and sewing, and she was active in local senior activities. She lived in a high rise in a neighborhood surrounded by medical centers, colleges, music and art institutes where was a cordial friend to many students and young professionals who moved through the busy Brigham Circle area.
Juanita is survived by her two children, Bert his wife, Audrey of MI and Joyce Jackson Rickson of Vineyard Haven; four grandchildren, Paul M. Norwood, Tali Jackson, Eban Jackson, and Laila Jackson Hanks; two great grandchildren Kyle Hanks and Jackson Hanks; her nephew Eric Rose and niece Terri Gillum of MI; and god daughter, Michelle Branch Lopes and her sons. Benoit and Bradley Brookens;
A graveside service will be held on Friday, December 4, 1 pm in the Oak Grove Cemetery, Parker Street, New Bedford. Arrangements are under the care of Chapman, Cole & Gleason Funeral Home, Oak Bluffs.
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