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Submitted: 1/5/22 • Approved: 1/8/22 • Last Updated: 1/11/22 • R1410729-G0-S3
Jacalyn Lou "Jackie" Stover
May 30, 1940 - January 5, 2021
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It is with great sadness that the family of Deaf Community Advocate, Jacalyn "Jackie" Lou (Sloan) Stover, age 80, of Star City, passed away Tuesday evening, January 5, 2021, at Wadley Regional Medical Center due to complications after being diagnosed with Covid 19.
Jackie was a former teacher, volunteer, and advocate with the Deaf Community in Maryland and Arkansas. She lived in Maryland for 36 years before moving to Arkansas where she had resided for the past 21 years.
Jackie was born May 30, 1940 in Wichita Kansas, a daughter of the late Leroy and Nena Sloan. She became deaf after becoming very sick when she was only one and a half years old. During her early life her family moved to Chicago, Illinois where Jackie's mother was determined to make sure that her daughter was not treated any differently. Prior to attending college she went to hearing schools where she learned how to speak and read lips very well. Her hobbies as a young girl included ice skating and cheerleading. She graduated from Alexander Graham Bell School in 1955 followed by Lake View High School in 1959.
She went on to Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. and graduated in 1964. It was during her time there that she learned the depth of American Sign Language and birthed her passion for wanting to help all deaf people succeed as well as making sure deaf people were given the same rights as hearing people.
She went on to marry James W. Stover the same day they both graduated from Gallaudet. They went on to have two hearing sons. As a family they enjoyed camping outings, hiking, fishing and traveling. Jackie also enjoyed arts & crafts, knitting and baking. She enjoyed being creative in the kitchen and putting together odd concoctions and then getting her grandkids to taste test them. During her later years in life she really enjoyed playing scrabble and words with friends online to keep her brain sharp. Everyone that knew Jackie described her as being honest and caring, always seeing the best in situations, being the most optimistic and having a strong faith in the Lord.
She held many different jobs over the years, always putting her heart and soul into her work. She started working at the D.C. public library, now known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, she then moved on to teach at the Carver School for the deaf near Baltimore, Maryland, she was a liaison worker for the deaf at Western High School for Girls in Baltimore, Maryland as well as several public schools in Baltimore. She worked at the Maryland Rehabilitation Center, which was a group home for deaf adults with mental illness.
Jackie enjoyed teaching so much that she decided to go back to school at Western Maryland College, now known as McDaniel College in 1980 to obtain her Masters in Deaf Education. She then went on to teach Junior High deaf students in Baltimore, adult basic education evening classes to deaf adults and taught American Sign Language classes to hearing adults. She finished her career working at Social Security Administration in Woodlawn, Maryland.
In her free time Jackie volunteered with Friends of Libraries deaf section at various libraries throughout Maryland. She was an officer as Vice President of Maryland Association of the Deaf. She established a cooperative extension service for the Homemakers Club for the Deaf. She was a representative for the Maryland Association of the Deaf on the Maryland state advisory board to help identify hearing impaired infants at birth. She volunteered at the Methodist Magothy Church for the deaf in Pasadena, Maryland participating in many different activities. After retiring to Star City, Arkansas in 1999 she still enjoyed her volunteer work teaching anyone that wanted to learn American Sign Language. She belonged to the National Association of the Deaf, Deaf Seniors of America, Arkansas Association of the Deaf, Deaf Senior Citizens social.
Jackie is survived by her spouse, James Stover; two sons, Raymond Winston Stover and David Roy Stover; daughter-in-law, Greta Stover; grandchildren, Krista Russ, Samantha Keene, Bobby Stover; many great-grandchildren; one sister, Becky Schuberth; two brothers, Mike Sloan and Ron Sloan; and many nieces and nephews. She also leaves many other family members and friends who will sadly miss her.
There will be two separate visitation times to allow for proper social distancing. The first visitation will be Friday, January 8, 2021 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and the second will be Saturday January 9, 2021 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m at Griffin Funeral Service in Star City, Arkansas.
The funeral service will be held graveside, Saturday, January 9, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. at Oak Grove Cemetery in Yorktown.
Jackie's family will serve as pallbearers.
In lieu of flowers it was Jackie's wish that any memorial tributes be made in the form of charitable donations to the Arkansas School for the Deaf Foundation. You can visit their website at asd-foundation.com/donate
Arrangements by Griffin Funeral Service in Star City, AR. Online guestbook at www.griffinfuneralservice.net.
Contributed on 1/5/22 by ashaw444
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