Emma M. Jackson, 90, of Warrenton, died Monday, May 19, 2008, in Astoria.

She was born Oct. 5, 1917, in Willows, Calif., to Newton and Helen (Baker) Schneider.

In 1936, she graduated from Salinas Union High School, and then attended Linfield College in McMinnville. From 1942 to 1943 she was a Pepsodent Smile Girl. She worked at Monterey Hospital in California for a few years.

On April 10, 1944, she married William Clark Jackson Jr. in Clark County, Nev. He preceded her in death May 25, 1955.

Mrs. Jackson moved all over the world wherever her husband was stationed in the military. After World War II, she was one of the first dependents let back into Germany where her husband was stationed. While she was in Germany, she helped start aid programs for German children.

From 1956 to 1958, she was a fraternity hostess at Acacia fraternity at Oregon State University.

Mrs. Jackson was on one of the committees to start Clatsop Community College. She taught Sunday school at Pioneer Presbyterian Church, and youth swimming at Camp Rilea.

Family members said she played the trumpet and the piano.

She is survived by a niece and her husband, Lynn and Robert Goodstein of Bend; two nephews and their wives, Bill and Torrie Schneider of Bend and Kenneth and Heidi Schneider of Seaside; four great-nieces and nephews, Angela Rose Goodstein of Bend and their children, Justin, Austin and KaLee Schneider of Seaside; her adopted family and trustee, Chuck and Shoko Switzer of Warrenton; and a God-daughter, Anita Switzer of Chicago.

There will be a memorial service held at a later date.

Hughes-Ransom Cremation & Mortuaries of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.