More detail on this person: Joe Wayne Jackson Mr. Jackson, 58 of Matthews died Sunday, October 24, 2004 en route to the NASCAR event in Martinsville, VA. A Home Going Celebration of his life will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday evening at the First Baptist Church of Indian Trail with Reverend Mike Whitson and Reverend Maurice Henson officiating. His family will receive friends following the service. Burial will be private. Mr. Jackson was born May 16, 1946 to the late Claude Gale and Ellen Bell Jackson, Sr. He graduated from the Citadel in 1968 and had remained active in the Alumni Association. Joe also served his country as a 1st Lt. in the US Army in Vietnam, and was a member of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association. He was formerly a Deacon at Covenant Baptist Church in Charlotte and most recently, was an active member of First Baptist Church of Indian Trail. Joe was instrumental in the development of the DuPont Motorsports program and routinely represented the company at NASCAR races. His entire 36 year DuPont career was spent in the Automotive Refinish business. NASCAR along with his family and friends were Joe's passions. He loved the sport and DuPont's role in it. His dedication to his company and his family was apparent to all. His DuPont colleagues and the entire Hendrick Motorsports team were his extended family, and he had a deep love and appreciation for each of them. Mr. Jackson is survived by his loving wife of 30 years, Jan Jackson of Matthews; his son, Jeff Jackson and his wife Amy of Clover, SC; his daughter, Jayne White and her husband Jason of Charlotte; his beloved grandsons, Jackson White and Christopher Jackson; his brother, Gale Jackson and his wife Joy of Columbia, SC; and by his step-mother, Lillie Jackson of Camden, SC. The family requests that memorials in memory of Joe be sent to either First Baptist Church of Indian Trail-Building Fund, PO Box 2550, Indian Trail NC 28079 or to the Hendrick Marrow Foundation, 4400 Papa Joe Blvd., Charlotte NC 28262. Joe Jackson, 58 of Virginia Citadel grad among Hendrick crash dead Post and Courier, The (Charleston, SC) - Wednesday, October 27, 2004 NASCAR NOTES A Citadel graduate who flew Army helicopters during the Vietnam War was among the 10 people killed when a Hendrick Motorsports airplane crashed Sunday en route to the Nextel Cup event in Martinsville, Va. Joe Jackson, 58, worked as director of motorsports for DuPont, the company that sponsors the car of Hendrick Motorsports driver Jeff Gordon. A 36-year employee of DuPont's automotive refinishing business, he is survived by his wife Jan, daughter Jayne White, son Jeff and two grandchildren. "NASCAR was a passion for Joe," DuPont group vice president Ed Donnelly wrote in a letter to employees. "He loved the sport and all in it. His dedication to our business was apparent to all of us." Investigators continued to search for clues Tuesday to why the Beech 200 King Air went down in apparently foggy conditions near Patrick Springs, Va. The aircraft did not contain a flight data or cockpit voice recorder. According to The Associated Press, the plane missed its first landing attempt before it veered off course and smashed into Bull Mountain. Pilots of at least 20 other planes, most of them carrying sponsors and race fans, decided it was too dangerous to land at Blue Ridge Airport on Sunday, and instead touched down in Danville, Va., the AP reported. Mike Rembold, manager of General Aviation Inc. at the Danville airport, said the pilots couldn't get into Blue Ridge because of the fog. "They were missing approaches," he told the AP. "They would go down and not see the runway and then go back up. They headed here instead." The dead included four Hendrick team executives, including Ricky Hendrick, son of team owner Rick Hendrick, who was ill and did not attend the race. Hendrick Motorsports has scheduled a candlelight memorial service that is open to the public at its Charlotte headquarters today from 6-8 p.m.
Burial information: Forest Lawn East Cemetery, Weddington, NC
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