news Sat, Jul 30 at 1:28 PM
Known to us croquet players as Stewart Jackson

Lionel S. Jackson, Jr., former CEO and Publisher of the New Haven Register and New Haven 
Journal-Courier Newspapers, passed peacefully in West Palm Beach, Florida, on July 7, 2022. 

He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Josette Gilbert Jackson, his two daughters, 
Jennifer Jackson Breitling and Laura Day Gaczkowski, two stepchildren, 
Frederick Joseph Morelli III and Jennifer Morelli Pennette, and eight grandchildren. 

Stewart was the son of Lionel S. Jackson and Patricia Woolsey Jackson of New Haven, CT. 
He had a passion for the water, was a rower who competed in the Royal Hanley Regatta 
recently celebrating his Monmouth school team’s 50th anniversary of rowing at Henley. 
As well he competitively raced Cigarette Power Boats throughout the Americas. 
After graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, he ultimately joined his father 
at the newspapers, and upon his father’s retirement, assumed his father’s responsibilities. 

In 1991, Stewart and Josie followed their passion for yachting, blue water sailing, and 
exploration (both having become US Coast Guard Captains) and sailed their vessel, 
LEQUIPE to Thailand and Malaysia, living onboard for 10 years. Upon returning to the USA, 
they became avid croquet players and settled in East Hampton, NY, where Stewart had spent 
his summers as a youth and in West Palm Beach, FL. Stewart served as Chairman of the Croquet 
Committee at the Beach Club, as well as serving on the Board of Directors. 

He was also responsible for bringing one of the largest invitational croquet tournaments
in the country, the World Championships, to the National Croquet Center. 

Peaceful sailing, Captain, on your next journey.