Jackie Fay Freeman

Funeral Services for Mrs. Jackie Fay (Goodwin) Freeman, 86, are scheduled for 2 P.M., Thursday, January 12, 2017 at Milo Baptist Church with Rev. Mike Johnston officiating. Interment will follow to Graham Cemetery. Services are under the care and direction of Alexander Funeral Home of Wilson.

Mrs. Jackie Fay (Goodwin) Freeman went to be with the Lord on January 7, 2017 in Silverton Oregon. Jackie was born on October 7, l930 near Milo, Oklahoma to the late Sherman Lee and Odessa (Cansler) Goodwin.

Growing up on a small farm located near Milo, Oklahoma, Jackie was active early in the Round-up Baptist Church and the local community. In 1950, she married her husband of 60 years Jack Freeman. Both Jack and Jackie graduated from the Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas in 1960. Over the years they lived and served in many places including Pomona California, Owassa Oklahoma, Odell Texas and Euless Texas. They retired in 1980 to the family farm near Milo Oklahoma and spent 30 active years there until Jack passed away in 2010.

Jackie loved raising cattle, gardening and outside work. She was an accomplished Genealogist and wrote an award-winning history of the Milo Baptist Church, the “Rose that Bloomed”. Throughout her married life she was a Sunday School Teacher and was always actively involved in the church she and husband Jack pastored or attended. Their last church, Milo Baptist Church, had a special place in their heart. She had been a resident of Silverton, Oregon since 2010.

Jackie was preceded in death by her husband Jack Dempsey Freeman in 2010, her parents Odessa and Sherman Goodwin, twin brother Sherman Ray, brother Joe Edward and sister Daisy Margine.

Survivors include four children Robert (Brush) Boyd and wife Diane of Elgin, Texas, Linda Carol and husband Greg Padilla of Belen, New Mexico, Roger Eugene and wife Lisa of Silverton, Oregon, Richard Jay and wife Tamara of Crossett, Arkansas, three grandchildren Andrew, Rachel and Savannah, six great-grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews.

Memorial gifts can be made to the Milo Baptist Church benevolent needs fund. Online condolences may be made to www.alexanderfuneralhome.org.