It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Elaine Marie Guidry Liska Jackson, who passed away peacefully on June 24, 2025, at the age of 83 in Gun Barrel City, Texas. Elaine was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, leaving behind a legacy of love and friendships.

Elaine is survived by her children, Joe Ed Liska, Jr. and his wife, Lee Ann Liska, Scott Liska and his husband, Raul Aguayo, and Donna Lynn Waldon and her husband, Rick Waldon, and grandchildren, Ross Waldon, Bradley Waldon, Jack Waldon, Catherine Liska, Michael Liska and David Avent, several great-grandchildren, and her brother, Paul Guidry.

She was predeceased by her husbands, Joe E. Liska and Edwin Jackson, her parents Morris Guidry and Eula Mae Breaux Guidry, and two of her brothers, Loyd Guidry and Robert (Bob) Guidry.

Elaine was born on October 3, 1941, in Goose Creek, Texas. She graduated high school in 1960 from Robert E. Lee High in Baytown, Texas and married her high school sweetheart, Joe Liska, a few months later. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary shortly before Joe's passing. She then married Ed Jackson and was happily married for another five years before Ed's passing in 2017.

She found joy in making knot rosaries from twine and would hand them out to anyone who wanted one. Over the years, she made hundreds of, if not thousands, of rosaries. She would even send some to Sister Mary Silvestri in Florida, who took them with her in her missionary work around the south Atlantic and in Africa.

A rosary will be held on Monday, June 30 at 6:00 pm at Grimes Funeral Chapels in Kerrville, Texas. A Mass will begin at 10 am on Tuesday, July 1 at Notre Dame Catholic Church in Kerrville, Texas, with a funeral burial following at Garden of Memories Cemetery.

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