Karleen l. JacKson
Karleen L. Jackson, 72, of Yates Center, Kansas, passed away Thursday morning, May 11, 2023, at Yates Center Health & Rehab Center. Karleen was born August 31, 1950, at Chanute, KS, one of the 12 children of Clayton A. Wells, Sr. and Florence (Stone) Wells. The family moved to Yates Center from Chanute when Karleen was in high school and she attended Yates Center High School. On April 12, 1969, she and Robert Allen Jackson were married at Yates Center. They became the parents of a daughter, Kylie.
Karleen and Robert owned and operated Jackson OK Tire in Yates Center for a number of years. She also drove a school bus for the Yates Center schools and worked in the kitchen at the school. She had been a waitress at Smokey Bens in Yates Center. She was a member of the First Christian Church in Yates Center until it closed when she joined the First Baptist Church.
She was a member of Golden Rod Chapter #163, Order of the Eastern Star at Yates Center.
Karleen loved music, especially the old Christian hymns. She and Robert sang together at various events.
Her husband, Robert, preceded her in death on July 28, 2014, from a tragic accident in Texas. She was also preceded by her parents; two brothers, Carl Wells and Clayton Wells, Jr.; and four sisters, Estella, Dolly, Lucinda “Red”, and Karen Wells.
She leaves her daughter, Kylie Cherry, and her husband Gary of Dodge City, KS; two grandchildren, Ariana Leone and Andrew Cherry; a great-grandchild on the way; five sisters, Judy Cuppy, Yates Center, Carrol Vitello, Kansas City, Martha Jane Stanford, Thayer, Mo., Margaret Ann Smith, Yates Center, and Delores Kee, Yates Center; a sister-in-law, Brenda Kunkel, West Branch, Iowa; a brother-in-law, Francis Jackson and wife Ellen, Yates Center; numerous nieces and nephews; many other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at The Town Hall (former First Christian Church) in Yates Center. Burial will follow in Yates Center Cemetery.
The family met with friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday at Campbell Funeral Home in Yates Center.
Memorial contributions may be made to Friends for Life or Harry Hynes Hospice and may be sent in care of Campbell Funeral Home, PO Box 188, Yates Center, KS 66783.