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Lawrence B. Jackson, 77, of Wellsboro, passed away Sunday May 18, 2025 at UPMC Williamsport. He was born August 5, 1947, in Philadelphia to Gustave and Sara (Ginsberg) Jackson. Raised in Scranton, he graduated from Central High School. On November 12, 1971, he married Mary Ann Mays with whom he shared 53 years of marriage. Larry served his country in the US Army from July, 1966, to February 1969. When the North Koreans captured the USS Pueblo, that service took him to Korea’s Demilitarized Zone, and later he worked for the military’s independent news source Stars and Stripes.
That experience led him to a career where he worked at United Press International and later as an Associate Editor for Parade Magazine, both in New York City. When Larry moved south, he became the City Editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel and held that position for many years. He and his wife owned and operated different businesses through the years. He served his community in Knoxville working as a Knoxville County Deputy Sherriff until moving to Wellsboro in 2010 to care for family.
Larry is survived by his wife: Mary Ann Jackson of Wellsboro; children: Kristopher L. Hilbert (Timothy) and Thomas V. Jackson; grandchildren: Alexis, Nichole, and Isabelle; and great-grandchildren: Malia, and Lucas.
Friends and family are invited to pay tribute to Larry’s life from 9am-9:45am Thursday May 22, 2025, at the Tussey-Mosher Funeral Home 139 Main Street Wellsboro, PA 16901 with a funeral service to follow at 10am at St. Peter’s Catholic Church. Burial will be at Bath National Cemetery in Bath, NY. Donations in Larry’s memory may be made to the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind 105 N Front Street, Suite 106 Rear, Harrisburg, PA 17101. To share a memory or condolence with his family visit www.tusseymosher.com. https://www.tusseymosher.com/obituaries/lawrence-jackson
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David Fetzer
This article is a glowing trivute to a fascinating life of national service and innovative and progressive links to a successful career and family. He did success to CHS and everything/everyone surrounding him. My sentiments to his family and friends for his loss.
Sandy Abda (King)
R. I. P. Sir. Your Life of Service brings Honor to your family and all of us Central Graduates Thank you
Lee Lebowitz
Short anecdote about Larry to add some color to the understated note in his obituary about the different businesses he had over the years. In the late 1970s Larry and Mary Ann were staying with us on vacation for a few days at our home in California. Larry was still working for the newspaper in Knoxville, but he told me about a little side business he had importing and selling weight equipment. His biggest sale to date was to the University of Tennessee football program. One morning the phone rings, my wife answers, and hands the phone to Larry. The caller was Arnold Schwarzenegger (pre-Hollywood), whose sole film appearance at that time was in the documentary Pumping Iron. The fact that Larry had given the most famous bodybuilder in the world his vacation itinerary and our phone number on vacation says something about his entrepreneurial ambition, instinct, and moxie.
Rest in peace old buddy!