In Memoriam : Patricia Jackert
Patricia J. Jackert - age: 93
(July 25, 1932 to February 18, 2026 ) Resident of Exeter, California Visitation Information: Burial is private with a future Celebration of Life - date to be announced. Obituary: Patricia Joy "Pat" Jackert was born July 25,1932 in Long Beach, California to Harold Theodore Romine and Frances May Haynes Romine. She died February 18,2026 in Visalia, California at the age of 93. She had been a resident of Exeter, California for over 30 years. Our mother lived a busy, active, and interesting life. When she was eighteen, she married our father Willis Richard "Dick" Jackert who was nineteen. He joined the Air Force and that was the beginning of many moves for the next seventeen and a half years. The first stop was Illinois. It was the first time she had left her family and the first time she had left California. She joined him there with the first of three daughters. Together they traveled and lived in North Carolina, California, the Azores, Maine, and Oklahoma. She was a stay-at-home mom running an efficient home on not a lot of income. She sewed, knitted, and crocheted items that we needed from clothing to curtains. In Maine she was very active in Girl Scouts organizing camps and heading up the Girl Scout cookie drives. She was active in church and was busy with bazaars and helping to produce the church cookbook "Burnt Offerings". In Oklahoma, with one daughter in high school and two in junior high, she started college, still involved with Girl Scouts. After our father's retirement from the Air Force, we moved to Anaheim, California where she finished her teaching degree, minoring in art. During that time, she was involved in weaving, macrame, leatherwork, and jewelry making. After graduation she began teaching sixth grade in the Santa Ana school district. A few years later she took a three-week tour of Spain with her Spanish speaking teacher's aide. During the time we lived in Anaheim our father returned to college becoming an optometrist. After his retirement from his practice, they moved to Northern California among the impressive redwoods along the Avenue of the Giants. While living there she returned to college in Eureka to earn her master's degree in education. All during those years she was busy with church and friends. With her parents aging in Southern California and not wanting to live there, they split the difference and moved to Exeter in 1993. There she began tutoring students in the nearby elementary school. She became involved with Love Inc, establishing her church's participation in the program. She was also working in the local food pantry helping to obtain food donations and distributing food baskets at holiday times. In 1998 she started to realize her dream of establishing a senior center in Exeter and got the ball rolling. She was also involved with the elder abuse program. At church she worked with the tape ministry, library, the distribution of the Sunday bulletin, Sunday service sound system, counting the offering, Bible studies, and was a member of the board. She was part of the literacy program helping adults learn to read and write including filling out job applications. She traveled to China three times with a local group to teach English as a second language. Over the years, after our father's death in 2002, she traveled to Costa Rica, Egypt, Jordan, Greece, Germany, Portugal, Dubai, Canada, Panama, Hawaii, and Alaska. She was a faithful friend, loving wife, and a wonderful, nurturing, and amazing mother. We will miss her very much. She is survived by her daughters Christine Beebe (Richard), Diana Jackert, and Cheri Martin (Dan), grandchildren Nathan Beebe, Erin Beebe, Michael Welsher, Eric Welsher, and Daniel Martin, great-grandchildren Gage Beebe, Alexander Joven, Tristan Joven, Gabriel Joven, Kayleen Welsher, Skylar Welsher, sisters-in-law Marvel Jackert, Patti Romine, Jan Jackert (Robin), and numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Willis Richard "Dick" Jackert, her parents Harold Theodore Romine and Frances May Haynes Romine, and brothers Ted and Richard Romine. 
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