Lora Viola Jackson age 81 of Park Forrest, IL, passed away on September 20, 2012. Mrs. Jackson was preceded in death by her husband the late Sant P. Jackson. Mother of Ruby (Robert) Thelan, Betty (Butch) Sparger, Sue (Kirk) Howell, Pauline (Jeff) McCord, the late (Jerry Jackson, and Larry (Debbie) Jackson. Grandmother to eighteen, and great-grandmother to twenty-eight, and sister of Herman Jones.