SHERIDAN - A memorial service for W.N. "Bill" Jackson, 64, will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Ferries Funeral Home. Cremation will take place following the service. Friends may call at the Ferries Funeral Home on Tuesday from 7 to 8 p.m.

Mr., Jackson died March 20, 1994, at his home in Dayton of cancer.

He was born Oct. 7, 1 929, in Basin, Mont., to Drew and Uretta Jackson. The family moved to Sheridan in 1945 where he graduated from Sheridan High School in 1947. He attended Sheridan Junior College and graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1952 with a bachelor of science in range management.

He returned to Sheridan to teach botany at Sheridan College in 1954. In 1956 he took a leave of absence to obtain his master's degree in botany at the University of Wyoming and returned to Sheridan College to teach in 1962. While at the university and Sheridan College he was active in the Izaak Walton League, serving as president of the Wyoming Chapter. He was also a member of the Wilderness Society and the Wyoming Wilderness Committee in conjunction with Forest Service.

He was active in the Sheridan Rodeo Club, Outing Club, Sheridan Horse Patrol and served as chairman of the Trail Riding Division. His honorariums included Sigma Xi, Alpha Zeta and the American Society of Range Management.

In 1963 he was granted a fellowship from the National Science Foundation to study radiation genetics toward his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota-St. Paul. His family moved to St. Paul. In 1964, he accepted a teaching position at Anoka Ramsey Community College near St. Paul where he taught biology for the next 27 years.

During the summer while still living in Minnesota he returned to Wyoming working for the U.S. Forest Service. He also is credited with climbing the Grand Tetons on New Year's Day for many years with Paul Petzoldt of the National Outdoor Leadership School.

He retired to Dayton in 1991 and he and June Lohsc organized and founded the Wilderness Guest Outfitters of Little Mountain Ranch where he conducted mountain pack trips, western riding and packing lessons and he raised Missouri Fox Trotter horses.

Survivors include his wife, Lennes McGaw Jackson of St. Paul; two sons, Michael of Andover, Minn, and Dr. Steven Jackson of Shoreview, Minn; and one daughter, Kelly Jackson of St. Paul. He is also survived by his mother, Urctta Jackson Ulsher of Boulder, Mont.; one brother, Drew of Harbor, Oregon; two sisters, Marie Morse of Gillette and Paula Corley of Gardnerville, Nev.; one aunt, one uncle and eight grand-children. He is also survived numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Memorial contributions may be directed to the Bill Jackson Memorial Fund in care of Delphine Toner, 1st Interstate Bank,

Casper Star-Tribune - Mar. 22, 1994.