Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Teague Chronicle
December 13, 2007 edition



THERESA VIOLET FREEMAN JACKSON


Funeral services for Mrs. Theresa Violet Freeman Jackson were held on Saturday, 
December 8, 2007, at Grove Island African Methodist Episcopal Church. Reverend 
Stanley Johnson, Pastor.

Reverend Alfred B. Iglehart was officiating minister and interment was at Grove Island 
Cemetery.

Mrs. Jackson was born on April 21, 1939, in Limestone County, Texas and passed away 
on Friday, November 30, 2007, at Brentwood Place Three in Dallas, Texas.

Mrs. Jackson was reared in the Sandy Community and was a resident of Mexia, Texas for 
fifty years.

Mrs. Jackson worked at the Mexia State School and retired after more than twenty years 
of service as a teacher. Her community services included: Charter member of the League 
of Involved Women serving in many leadership positions; National Association of the 
Advancement of Colored People and Nineteenth Organization.

She was a member of Grove Island African Methodist Episcopal Church, The African 
Methodist Episcopal Church Lay Organization; Tenth Episcopal District Women’s 
Missionary Society; Tenth Episcopal District Finance Committee, Elected to the General 
Board of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Bi-Stone County Interdenominational 
Ushers alliance and Interdenominational Choir.

She was a member of the Norris Wright Cuney Order of Eastern Star, McCullough P. 
Wolridge Chapter No. 12.

Mrs. Jackson is survived by her beloved husband of forty-nine years, Mr. Rufus Jackson, 
Sr.; her sons Mr. Rufus Jackson, Jr. of League City, Texas and Mr. Edward A. Jackson of 
Lewisville, Texas; her daughters Mrs. Felicia Evans and husband Anthony of Lancaster, 
Texas and Mrs. Particia Shorter hand husband Reverend Coby Shorter, III of Pflugerville, 
Texas; her sisters Mrs. Pinkie M. Hester of Dallas, Texas and Mrs. Ruby Hobbs and 
husband Arthur of Mexia, Texas; her brother-in-law Mr. McKenzie Jackson of Mexia, 
Texas; sisters-in-law Mrs. Jewell Freeman of Coolidge, Texas, Mrs. Juanita Freeman of 
Raywood, Texas, Mrs. Rodis Freeman of Austin, Texas, Ms. Dorothy Cox of Dallas, 
Texas, Ms. Clara Gillespie of Dallas, Texas, Mrs. Earlean Livingston of Stockton, 
California, Mrs. Cornetta Smith and husband Reverend Dayton Smith of Vancouver, 
Washington, Mrs. Rachel Williams and husband Thomas of Dallas, Texas; her 
grandchildren Derrick L. Forge, Anthony B. Forge, II, Rickie B. Willis, Jeremy R. 
Wright, Jennifer N. Wright, Jordan N. Jackson, Bryce A. Jackson, Brent A. Jackson, 
Emma N. Jenkins and Coby Shorter, IV; nine great grandchildren Ajiah B. Forge, Alycia 
B. Forge, Ashlynn B. Forge, Alexia B. Forge, Anthony B. Forge, III, Kortlin B. Forge, 
Derrian N. Forge, Jermiya Wright, Je’Khavin D. Willis; numerous nieces, nephews and 
other relatives and friends.

The family is requesting donations to the Theresa Violet Jackson Memorial Scholarship 
Fund, c/o First Mexia Bank, P.O. Box 110, Mexia, Texas 76667, (254) 562-5396.

Moore’s Angelic Funeral Home of Teague was in charge of the arrangements.