Eula Powers Jackson, age 90, of Lumberton, NC died on Saturday, July 17, 2010 at GlenFlora in Lumberton. She was born on May 20, 1920 in Robeson County, NC to Javie and Mary Hulon Powers. She was a homemaker and farmer.

Mrs. Jackson was a member of Zion Tabernacle Baptist Church for over sixty years where she taught Sunday School for more than thirty years. She also was a charter member of East Howellville Fire Department and an active member of other church and community activities.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Javie and Mary Hulon Powers; her husband, Sam Walter Jackson; a daughter, Mary Catherine Tyner; a grandson, Eddie Bruce Carter, Jr.; and four brothers and three sisters.

Mrs. Jackson is survived by four sons, Curtis Jackson and wife Roma, Cecil Jackson and wife Esther, Sammy Jackson and Terry Jackson and wife Gina, all from Lumberton, NC; five daughters, Pauline Evers, Carolyn Hodge and husband Braxton B., III and Ann Carter and husband Eddie, all of Lumberton, NC, Juanita Ferguson and husband Jerry of Shallote, NC and Margaret Hall and husband Larry of Lumberton, NC; two sisters Kathleen Strickland of Clarkton, NC and Elizabeth Callahan of Bladenboro, NC; twenty (20) grandchildren, twenty-three (23) great-grandchildren and two (2) great-great-grandchildren.

A Funeral Service will be held on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 11:00 AM at Floyd Memorial Chapel in Lumberton with Rev. Walter Jones and Rev. Baxter Leigh officiating. Burial will follow in the Gardens of Faith Cemetery in Lumberton.

Visitation will be on Monday evening, July 19, 2010 from 7:00-9:00 PM at Floyd Mortuary & Crematory, Inc., 809 E. 5th Street in Lumberton.

Flowers will be received or you may give a memorial gift to the charity of your choice.