Freestone County, Texas Obituaries Mexia Daily News - Monday, November 11, 1968 - Page 1 Funeral Services at Grove Island For Mrs. Jackson Funeral services will be held at the Grove Island A.M.E. Church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock for Mrs. Willie Jackson, a former Mexia resident who died in Los Angeles on November 4. The Rev. W. H. T. Gillespie will officiate and burial will be in Grove Island cemetery with the Dorsey-Keatts Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Jackson is survived by two brothers, Ben and Emerson Wright, both of Los Angeles; a sister, Mrs. Mildred Wright, of Los Angeles; a brother-in-law, T. J. Jackson of Grove Island, and a number of nieces and nephews.