Elmer Jackson

December 21, 1939 - September 7, 2020

Graveside services for Elmer Lee Jackson are 10:00 am Friday September 11, 2020 in the Holland Cemetery. Officiating will be Reverend Rob Pierce. Honorary pallbearers are G.V. Gulager, Mark Linch, George Butler, Billy Keys, Mike Sheets and Sid Carpenter. Final arrangements have been placed in the care of Green Country Funeral Home. Elmer Lee Jackson (Lee) was born December 21, 1939 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma to Clyde and Edna (Farar) Jackson. He departed this life on September 7, 2020 in Tahlequah, OK with his family by his side. Lee grew up in the Eureka area and attended schools at Eureka and Hulbert. He and Barbara Ann Linch had been together since the age of 11. They were married on October 11, 1958 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and from that union they had Tammy, Lisa and Billy. Lee began riding bulls and roping calves at the early age of 10 with the encouragement of his mentor and hero Chris Gulager. He loved bull riding throughout his life, waiting on the PBR to come on TV. Lee and Barbara along with their family traveled for nearly ten years for his job as a carpenter. In 1968 Lee and Barbara began a dairy farm, where he worked and raised his family. Lee was preceded in death by his parents, wife Barbara, granddaughter Lindsey Carpenter, brothers Roy, Loyd, Danny and Randall, sisters Opal and Mamie. He leaves behind his children Tammy Hall and Chris, Lisa Gassaway and Randy, Billy Jack Jackson and Jaymee and special son Tedo Keys and Abby. Nine grandchildren Robert Gassaway and Ashley (Kylann Lincoln), Janey Chuculate and Stephen, Cooper Jackson, Mylee Jackson, Reese Jackson and, Latosha (Adison and Casen) Steeley, Angie Cook and Jeannie Bunch. He leaves his siblings, Joann Frost, Linda Jackson, Jeanette Smith and Ronnie and Clyde Earl Jackson and Carla, sister-n-law Mary Sue Butler and George, brother-in-law Jr Linch and Marie, numerous nieces and nephews; as well as many extended family members and dear friends who will truly miss him.