With broken hearts we announce the passing of Brooke “Brooklynn” Emily Jackson. She left us peacefully on Friday, October 3, at 11:11 a.m., surrounded by her family in Eureka.

Brooke was born in Eureka on July 8, 1998 at the old General Hospital in the presence of her beloved aunt, Amy Miller, and her then three-month-old cousin, Cassidy Bailey. Her mother Sarah brought her home to big sister, Elizabeth, the next day. She was a happy and fearless child, always smiling and sticking up for her friends in their neighborhood on 15th Street. She attended Back Yard Preschool, and then Freshwater Elementary School. She moved with her family to the Freshwater School District before middle school. She cheered for youth football from the age of 7, and attended ballet and gymnastic classes. Brooke attended Arcata High School where she also cheered and made many friends. She graduated from Arcata High School in 2016.

She grew to be a stunning beauty under the Humboldt redwoods, where she loved to swim in the rivers and lakes. She enjoyed picking up pretty rocks on the local beaches. Brooke also traveled to her grandmother Nanci’s home in Mexico to enjoy the beaches there, and to Hawaii to learn to surf and vacation with family.

She was incredibly proud to become a auntie when Tobi, and then Kylah were born. She helped with their care and feeding while living in Arcata with her big sister then in Redding, briefly, after her sister moved. She attended Fredrick and Charles Beauty College, and she worked at Angels of Hope and Luis’s in her early adult life. She loved and rescued animals, including her beloved dog Srewie and cat Rico.

Brooklynn will be remembered as someone who brightened up every room she entered, brought hope and comfort to her freinds, and as a wildly hilarious soul.

She was preceded into the afterlife, by her father, Robert Jackson, and his parents Ron and Sue Todd, and her grandfather, Griff Savage. Those who survive are her mother, Sarah Jackson, grandmother Nanci Savage, sisters, Eliza Jackson, Toni Pico, and Emmi Ruiz, soul-sister Willow Wakanwolf, brothers Reid and Ryan Jackson, her niece Kylah Boazman and nephew Tobi Boazman, aunt Amy Miller, Uncle Roger Miller, cousins Cassidy Bailey, Ciara Miller, and Caley Miller.

A memorial will be held for her at the Wharfinger Building on Saturday, October 25, at 1 p.m. Please consider bringing a donation for the Redwood Renewal Foundation to honor her memory.

Brooklyn was beautiful and wonderful and brave and strong and smart and funny and happy and good, and we loved her very, very much.