Friday, June 1, 2018 6:16 pm

Ryan Tillman "Kit" Jackson, III, age 71, of Rocky Mount, passed away Thursday, May 31, 2018. Born in Lexington County, South Carolina on June 3, 1946, he was the son of the late Ryan Tillman Jackson, Jr. and Jaqueline Craft Rucker. He was also preceded in death by his step-father Legree Rucker.

He is survived by his wife Julie "Bett" Barnes Jackson; his children, Ryan Tillman Jackson, IV and his wife Stacey, Michael Emerson Jackson and his wife Maureen, Jennifer Jackson Corley and her husband Bryan, Joseph Jones, Clay Daughtridge, and Adam Daughtridge and his wife Leigh; 10 grandchildren; sister Lora Beth Rucker; and several nephews.

Services will be held on Sunday, June 3, 2018, at Wheeler & Woodlief Funeral Home, Rocky Mount.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Kit's name to Meals on Wheels, P.O. Box 7611, Rocky Mount, NC 27804.