Graveside service for MSG (Retired) Raymond E. Jackson will be 10:00 A.M. Thursday, April 27, 2017 at Highland Cemetery.

Burial with full military honors will be under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

MSG (Retired) Raymond E. Jackson, age 85, of Lawton, passed away Sunday, April 23, 2017 in Grandfield, Oklahoma.  He was born October 25, 1931 in Kilgore, Texas to Thomas E. and Nellie (Babbs) Jackson.

He was a twenty-six year Army veteran who proudly served his country during the close of World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War.  As a ranking Master Sergeant, he finished his Army career at Fort Sill as a Field Artillery Instructor who taught newly commissioned officers.  He was a member of the Shotgrass Rangers Shooting Club, a benefactor for the NRA, a member of the Oklahoma Rifle Association and SASS Cowboy Shooting Association.  He was an active board member at Highland Cemetery and was retired from the Oklahoma State Employment Service.

He is survived by his great nephew Tommy Hyde and his wife Joyce, of Lowell, AR, a great niece, Jeanne Robertson, of Pocola, OK, three other great nieces of Arkansas and Oklahoma and his close friends in the Lawton, Oklahoma Area.