Mr. Cary Joseph (Colt Steel) Jackson, 53, of Kannapolis, died Sunday, December 20, 2009.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday, December 23, 2009, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Carolina Memorial Park.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Lady's Funeral Home. At other times, they will be at the home.

Born October 9, 1956 in Robeson County, he was the son of the late Lonnie Jackson and Margaret Holmes Jackson. He was a 1976 graduate of Pender Academy and attended Fayetteville State University. A commercial plumber by trade, C.J. was employed as a plumbing supervisor with Piedmont Piping Mechanical Contracting, Inc. in Harrisburg. He was also a worldwide professional wrestler and was a 1985 powerlifting champion by being awarded No. 1 in North Carolina and No. 3 in the Eastern United States. He held many titles with the NWA and Atlantic Coast Wrestling Conference.

Survivors include his wife, Sharon Beam Jackson; a son, Cary Joseph Jackson II of the home; two sisters, Ann Hardin of Raeford and Virginia Jackson of Red Springs.