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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
O'Connor, Jackson David
Jackson David O'Connor, 2-day-old son of Jason E. and Amanda M. (Watson) O'Connor, of Peoria, Ill., passed away at 5:03 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria. He was born at 3:20 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center. Services will be 4 p.m. today at Preston-Hanley Funeral Homes & Crematory in Pekin, Ill., with visitation one hour before. Burial will be 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 21, at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery in Cedar Rapids, with Father Philip E. Thompson officiating.
Surviving are Jackson's parents; maternal grandparents, Mike and Madonna Watson of Lake View, Iowa; paternal grandfather, John (Pat) O'Connor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; paternal grandmother, Judy Kaufman of Cedar Rapids; maternal great-grandmother, Donna Sorensen of Tipton, Iowa; paternal great-grandmother, Betty Countryman of Columbia, Mo.; and his aunts and uncles, Johnny and Tammy O'Connor, Sarah Watson, Adam and Olivia Watson, and Jon and Rachel Watson.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Preston-Hanley Funeral Home & Crematory in Pekin.
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