A.W. Andy Jackson, 78, a retired federal government and national laboratory executive, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 4 at
Sibley Memorial Hospital. He was a Bethesda resident.
Mr. Jackson, a native Washingtonian, attended McKinley Technical High School and graduated from Central High School in the
District. He also graduated from American University. He served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War, with duty in
Guam, China and Cuba.
Mr. Jackson held various executive positions, including executive officer of the Atomic Energy Commission program that
developed isotope generators that powered experiments conducted on the moon by the Apollo astronauts. He was also special
assistant to the chairman of the commission and later controller of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during its formative
months. He retired in 1975.
Mr. Jackson then worked for Brookhaven National Laboratory, leading its Washington liaison office for eight years. He later was
a consultant to the laboratory.
He was a member and past commander of the American Legion's Thad Dulin Post in Washington and belonged to Kenwood
Country Club in Bethesda.
Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Teresa Fanning Jackson of Bethesda; four children, Terrence Jackson of Springfield,
Margaret Jackson of Silver Spring, Cathryn Dirksen of Silver Spring and Mary Ann Szwed of Woodbridge; a sister, Emily Bailey, of
Henderson, Md.; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
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