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    #13
    Friggin vaccine.
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      #14
      I'll post the obit when/if available.
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        #15
        I met him at the announcement of the end of the CWB at the Walde farm.

        Had a quick conversation with him. I knew of him, but he didn't know me. It was pleasant and enlightening.

        You have to admit if any of us are that engaged in farming when we reach his age, we would be doing pretty good.
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          #16
          Met him several times over the years.
          Last was about Mar 23. We're about 20 miles apart. Had aged and didn't look well then.
          A man of conviction to say the very least and impervious to controversy. You respected him regardless.
          I wish for him what my father had, an overflowing church. I suspect it will be so.
          I believe those who know, have a responsibility to teach a little history to those who don't regarding our industry.
          Fair winds and following seas.
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            #17
            Sorry for the loss. Sorry that Tom succumb to the pressure to take the jab. Another victim of tyrants. RIP Tom. Take heed all and remember Tom when the next plandemic arrives.
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              #18
              I will be forever thankful to him for his part in getting rid of the CWB. I am sorry to hear of his passing. I missed his posts on here over the past several years. Did he ever get his legal issues resolved?
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                #19
                I got to know who he was when I read "Canada's Great Grain Robbery" , and " Jailhouse Justice" , both excellent books to read . A real man who held strong convictions in my opinion, and stood his ground.

                The world could use more people like him . Hope you have another shake of the dice when you cross that great divide Tom.

                Galaxie 500.
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                  #20
                  One of our brave soldiers. Thank You Tom. RIP
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                    #21
                    Obituary of Tom Jackson | Fee & Sons Funeral Service
                    https://feeandsons.com/tribute/details/2290/Tom-Jackson/obituary.html#tribute-start
                    With heavy hearts we announce the passing of Thomas Richard Jackson, called home from earthly toil into eternal glory. Tom had been struggling with chronic heart and lung problems, and passed away on August 10th, 2024. Tom is survived by his wife, Lucy; his children Naomi Dechaine (Adrien), Daniel (Emily), Joshua, Ruth, and Zeke; his siblings Joyce Kelly, Peter, Charles, and Colin; and his grandchildren Celes, Annetta, Eva, Dominic, Benoit, Benjamin, Samuel, and Elizabeth. Tom was born in 1958 to Dick and Reta Jackson in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Farming (especially farm equipment) fired his imagination from the start. Working with his dad and his uncle Don on the family grain farm, Tom learned from a young age to care devotedly for the animals, the crops, the fields, and especially the equipment. In the mid-1970s, Tom joined the Teen Time of Edmonton Christian youth group and summer camp program. While helping out deworming the horses at the new ranch facility near Dapp, AB, he met the love of his life, a vibrant red-head named Lucy Wall. Tom and Lucy married in 1979 and spent their honeymoon years hauling cargo all over the continent, from Tuktoyaktuk to Texas, with a Mack Super-Liner truck. Their trucking adventures were punctuated by work back on the farm, along with summer weeks volunteering at Teen Time Ranch or helping with trail ride camps in the rockies. Tom eventually settled back into more regular work on the farm, due in no small part to Naomi, Daniel, and Joshua, born in ‘82-’84, who filled his life with a new set of joys and cares. Farm life changed in the ‘90s as rented fields around Sherwood Park turned into housing developments, and Ruth and Zeke arrived in ‘93 and ‘95. Tom’s dad was forced into retirement after a serious accident in 1993, and youngest brother Colin stepped up to manage the homestead. Tom immersed himself in work with crop commissions and policy groups, and worked tirelessly to advocate for marketing freedom during the heated CWB plebiscite years. In 2001, Tom and Lucy took a leap of faith and established a new seed farm just west of Killam, Alberta. The move away from the big city did not slow the pace of Tom’s farm activity, as he experimented with exotic crops like einkorn and sunroot. Tom ran for office, continued in crop commissions and policy groups, served on provincial and federal riding associations, and rebuilt farm trucks in his “spare” time. Tom was also heavily involved with Alberta Lyric Theater’s Easter musical Love: According to John through its entire run at the Edmonton Jubilee Auditorium, continuing to drive up to the city with his family for Sunday rehearsals even after the move. Tom slowed down his involvement with boards and organizations and cut back his hours in the field when his health began declining in the last few years, but he was still wheeling and dealing. In his final days he was bargain-hunting from his bed, trying to talk the boys into picking up a John Deere 4020 just like the one he grew up with. (“It would be perfect to run the belt conveyor.”) A public funeral will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church north of Lougheed on Friday, August 16. Viewing at 12:30, service at 1:30, interment and light refreshment to follow. In lieu of flowers, please donate in Tom’s memory to Teen Time of Edmonton: www.teentime.ab.ca/donations

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                      #22
                      I knew of Tom for years but never met him until 2? years ago when he bought a 4320 from me. I told him I appreciate what he did and shook his hand before he headed out roading the tractor back to Killam.
                      He is gone to soon.
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                        #23
                        Only 66
                        Makes me look in the mirror a little different.
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                          #24
                          RIP hero. Great thing the lord blesses us with folks willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good.
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