Albertine “Betty” Jackson

JACKSON

Posted By: Ruth Maring - Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/13/2006 at 18:38:31

The Clinton Herald
Published: July 07, 2006 11:34 pm

Albertine Jackson

SAVANNA, Ill. — Albertine “Betty” Jackson, 82, of Savanna, died Friday at Big Meadows Nursing Home, Savanna.

She was born April 8, 1924, in Untergeis, Germany. She married Sgt. Johnnie Jackson. He died in 2002. She and her husband moved to Savanna in 1964.

She was assigned during World War II to a youth work force. She spent five months as a farmhand in rural Poland and seven months as a streetcar conductor in Breslau, Poland. Later, she was drafted into the German Luftwaffe as a switchboard operator. Toward the end of the war, she was transferred to the North Sea area where British troops captured her in 1945. She was soon released and spent two years working her way back to her hometown of Oberaula in central Germany.

She became a U.S. citizen in 1958.

She was employed with Eaton Corp., Savanna. She retired in 1987.

Survivors include two brothers, Dieter and Gunter; one sister, Erna; children, Ilona, Frank and Edina; and three grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by one brother and her husband.

Death date: July 7, 2006