The Meade County Messenger

ALICE JOSEPHINE ‘JO’ SHACKLETTE

Alice Josephine “Jo” Shacklette, 98, Brandenburg, died June 20, 2010, in Elizabethtown. She was born Jan. 7, 1912, in Roberta, the daughter of the late Wade Hampton and Martha Alice Johnston Shacklette.

She was well-known in recent years for calling into the local radio show, “Edgewise” and telling her views on the world today. She believed in living off the land and living simple.

She was preceded in death by her sister, Lerena Shacklette Richardson, Edith Shacklette Haynes; her brothers, Dr. C.B. Shacklette, Edward L. Shacklette and Wade H. Shacklette, Jr.

Miss Shacklette is survived by a niece, Sue Cummings; three nephews, J.C. Shacklette, Lewis Shacklette and Don Shacklette; many great-nieces and nephews, great-great-nieces and nephews and great-great-great-nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were held June 22, from the chapel of Bruington-Jenkins-Sturgeon Funeral Home.

Burial was in Cap Anderson Cemetery.

Condolences may be left online at www.bjsfunerals.com.

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