Jackie Gwenette Pridgeon was born on March 15, 1932, to Gladys Clark Pridgeon and Jesse Pridgeon in Monticello, Florida. She was preceded in death by husbands Edward Gillispie and Henry F. Mixon, parents Gladys Valentine and Jesse Pridgeon, and two infant sisters Joann and Shirley.

Jackie is survived by her sister Jan Pridgeon Gregory and husband Garry, Stillwater, OK., sons Henry F. (Mickey) Mixon Jr., and wife Karen, Bastrop TX., Vance L. Mixon and wife Deanna, New Braunfels, TX., and daughter Deborah (Debbie) Matula and husband James, Marble Falls, TX.

Nine grandchildren, Amanda Patton, Marble Falls, TX., Joshua Patton, Liberty Hill, TX., Cory Patton and wife Jennifer, Liberty Hill, TX., Christy Quinones-Mixon and husband Ivan, San Antonio, TX., Brent Mixon and wife Tiffany, Lake Jackson TX., Jeffrey Mixon and wife Jessica, Katy, TX., Melissa Myers and husband Jack, Jonathan Edward Mixon, Houston, TX and Rebecca Rose Matula, Austin, TX.

Fourteen great-grandchildren, Sarah Elizabeth Patton and husband, Steven Kramer, Austin, TX., Kayla Lin Patton, Golden, CO., Laney Patton, Long Beach, CA., Paul Ryan Curtis Patton, Belton, TX., Kinley Rae Patton, Liberty Hill, TX, Kennedy Reese Patton, Liberty Hill, TX, Kalynn Quinones-Mixon, Memphis, TN, Alyssa Quinones-Mixon, Auburn, AL., Emily Mixon, College Station TX., Luke Mixon, Lake Jackson, TX., Jackson Myers, Bastrop, TX., Dane Myers, Bastrop, TX., Aiden Mixon, Katy, TX., and Amelia Mixon, Katy, TX. Jackie is also survived by cousins, nephews and nieces across TX, AL, GA, WA and Vero Beach, Florida.

Jackie had a special bond with her grandparents Bennie and Charlie Clark in her early years in Monticello, moving to Vero Beach, Florida in the eighth grade.

She married Hank Mixon in 1950 after graduating from Vero Beach High School making the first of many moves that come with military life. She began a civilian job at the Naval base near Memphis. Next came Oakland Naval air station in Alameda, California where her two sons, Mickey and Vance, were born in 1951 and 1953, followed by a move in 1954 to Nimitz Field Naval air station in Tennessee where her daughter Debbie was born in 1955.

The next family move was in 1956 to Cecil Field Naval air station in Jacksonville, Florida were Jackie held a leadership civilian job for several years.

On May 5, 1961, Jackie married Ed Gillispie, a Marine stationed in Jacksonville, Florida. In the same year, the family transferred to El Toro Marine base in Santa Ana, California. This would be the last military move for Ed, Jackie, and the kids. They drove from California to Ed's hometown of Freeport/Surfside Beach, TX where roots were planted for three kids, aged six, eight, and ten. Jackie and the kids were embraced by the ''Gillispie, Jones, Hardcastle'' crew with immediate, genuine, and lasting love.

Jackie went to work at Dow Chemical, turning a job into quite a career. She began at the most basic level reaching a senior level no woman had yet held.

As Jackie's family grew, she was the Granny who was found at baseball, softball, and soccer games, dance recitals, school plays and boot camp graduations. Whether to Florida to see her high school girlfriends, the ''Vero Mixon's,'' cousins Marie, Beverly, and Julie, or to Oklahoma to see her sister Jan, Jackie loved to travel.

She met her younger sister Jan in her later years. They had been searching for each other for years, neither knowing if the other would be happy to be found. They are both so grateful to have been found and have an inseparable bond.

Jackie spent her final years at Arbor House Memory Care in Marble Falls, TX. She loved bible study, was the life of any gathering, held court at the domino, bingo, or dining table and during live music sessions. She and her family grew close to caregivers from all three shifts, friendships that will last for years to come.

Arbor House is located near her three children, many of her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and nieces and nephews who came to catch her amazing smile, grateful to hear her stories again and again and to spend precious time loving on her.