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Marc Allen Jackman

November 5, 1940 to July 16, 2021

Marc Allen Jackman, 80, died at the Walworth county Care Center on July 16, 2021. His heart gave out after a long and valiant battle with cancer.

Marc was born November 5, 1940 in Lemmon SD to Stanley and Elsie Pulis Jackman. Since his father worked for MDU, he lived in the MDU towns of Lemmon, Ashley, Ipswich, Gettysburg and Mobridge. He came to Mobridge in the seventh grade and graduated from Mobridge High School in 1959. He attended SDSU where he played football until he broke his left leg and that ended his career. He graduated with a wildlife and fisheries major. He was hired by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and was assigned to work out in Pennsylvania. He loved the job but preferred the Midwest, so he came back to work for the SD Game, fish and Parks as a biologist doing walleye egg counts, stocking lakes, checking water quality and working with the new commercial fishing industry on Lake Oahe. He quit Game, Fish and Parks, leaving paperwork behind to go commercial fishing every day out on the lake he loved.

He married Fay Loll in 1969 and they had two sons, Steve and Eric.

After the commercial fishery closed he started driving truck for Schulz Creamery out of Bismarck, hauling cheese to Missouri and frozen chickens back from the Tyson Plant in Arkansas to the Super Valu warehouse in Bismarck. When John Schultz died Marc started driving for BT who brokered almost exclusively for Blue Bunny ice cream out of LaMars, Iowa. He hauled Blue Bunny all over the United States from coast to coast.

After his heart attack in 2001 he went to work for Thorstenson Trucking hauling grain all over the Midwest. He loved hauling grain the best because he got to go to the farms and work with farmers and to the elevators to work with local elevator men. He also liked working for Norm who was ten years older than Marc. He said Norm made him feel like a kid.

Marc loved the Missouri river and later Lake Oahe. He has always owned a boat since he was 12 years old when he talked his folks into sending for a boat kit from Sears and Roebuck and also talked them into helping him to put it together in the living room.

He was a member of the local Masons and Shrine and devoted member of the Shrine Chanters. The Shrine Chanters will be his honorary pallbearers He belonged the Mobridge Moose Lodge and the United Church of Christ.

He was preceded in death by his father and mother and his in-laws, Lloyd and Geraldine Loll

He is survived by his wife, Fay, his sons Steve and Eric (Paula) Jackman, two granddaughters, Faye and Viola, his brother, Craig (Dianne) Jackman, brother-in-law Jeff (Mary) Loll, two nieces, Nissa Jackman and Laura Loll (James) Lovato, their daughters, Maria and Sirena, one nephew David Loll and his son, Nathan.

His funeral service will be Saturday morning, July 24 at 11:00 a.m. at the Mobridge UCC Church. A family/Masonic service will be at 7 p.m. Friday night July 23 also at the UCC church with visitation from 6-7 p.m.

Memorials in lieu of flowers may be given to the Mobridge UCC church where he was a devoted member for 52 years.