Sadie Elizabeth Jackson (Rounds)

Obituary Sadie Elizabeth Jackson, our loving and devoted wife and mother, walked her last mile and went home with Jesus on March 4, 2019. She was born to James and Hazel Rounds, in Snow Hill Maryland, on June 28, 1938 and completed her formal education in the state of Maryland. She met Willie Jackson in the summer of 1954 and was joined together in marriage on August 22, 1955. From this marriage, they had eight children—four boys and four girls. As her occupation, she was a seamstress and a columnist for the Daily Times in Salisbury, Maryland. Sadie accepted Jesus Christ as her personal Savior as a child. She received her training in evangelism and teaching the ministry of Jesus Christ from Reverend Charles Johnson of the Evangelistic Gospel Crusade Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After moving to Maryland in 1993, she attended Mount Wesley United Methodist Church. She also attended Georgetown Baptist Church. In 2001, Sadie, along with her husband Willie and Reverend Willie Joe Jackson, Jr., founded Christian Stronghold Community Church, in Princess Anne, Maryland. There she started a food pantry in 2001 that still thrives today. She leaves behind cherished memories with: eight children—her sons, Reverend Willie Joe Jackson, Jr., Apaula, Wallace, and Isaac; her daughters, Hilda, Vandella, Inez and Mona, and adopted daughter Antoinette Jackson; four foster daughters, Erica, Loretta, Michelle and Brianna; 35 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; one great-great grandchild three brothers, Clarence, Lloyd and William Rounds, two sisters-in-law, Marvella and Priscilla Rounds, and a host of cousins, nieces and nephews. Her husband, father, mother, two sisters, one grandson, one granddaughter and one great granddaughter preceded her in death. She would remind us of the importance of family, joined to one another in love, strength and understanding, and to always walk and live in Jesus Christ. Her prayer was that God’s spirit would live in her children and one by one they began to be saved. The Bible verse that best describes our Mother is John 15:13, “Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friend.” She cared more for her loved ones than she did herself and we thank God that she was the kind of wife, mother and friend that she was. We thank her for her guidance and unselfishness. We all loved her and will miss her forever. We know in our hearts and through our faith, that she has a place in the mansion that Jesus Christ prepared for her a long time ago. We celebrate her life and mourn our loss, but God loves her more. She will always remain alive in our hearts and minds. Thank you Jesus for sharing your servant with us, and the rest of the world. LOVINGLY SUBMITTED ~ THE FAMILY

Sadie Elizabeth Jackson (Rounds)

June 28, 1938 - March 4, 2019