The Greenwood Commonwealth
Greenwood, MS
Dec 22, 1953

Mrs. Lura Jackson Claimed By Death

Mrs. Lura Jackson, 76 year old resident of Route 1, Greenwood, died at the Greenwood Leflore Hospital last night at midnight.

Services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. at Centerville Church in Carroll County with A. P. Gilder officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Wilson and Knight in charge.

Mrs. Jackson was the widow of the late J. D. Jackson who died 15 years ago. She was a member of the Baptist church.

She leaves four sons, Jasper Jackson, W. H. Jackson, Ernest Jackson, David R. Jackson; four daughters, Mrs. A. S. (Lillian) Johnson, Mrs. R. H. (Grace) McDaniel, Mrs. Campbell (Louise) Goss, Mrs. Ben (Barbara Ann Myers) Welch (this is actually her granddaughter); also a sister, Mrs. T. E. (Effie) Hunt, all of Greenwood: twenty-seven grandchildren and twenty-seven great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be: A. J. Johnson, Roy Jackson, J. L. Jackson, Rufus Jackson, Ben Welch and Donald Galey.