Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Mexia Daily News - April 6, 2007 edition

Leola (Johnson) Jefferson

WORTHAM - Mrs. Leola Jefferson, 99, of Wortham, passed away Thursday, March 29,
2007 in Parkview Regional Hospital-Mexia.

Visitation began this morning at 10 and goes until 7 p.m. at Moore’s Angelic 
Funeral Home-Teague-406 Monroe Street. The family will be present from 6 until
7 p.m.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 7, 2007, at 11 a.m. in Beulah 
Baptist Church on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Wortham. The pastor, the 
Rev. Lester Brown, will be the eulogist, and the Rev. Curtis Jefferson, Jr., 
a nephew who lives in Weatherford, will officiate. Interment will be in the 
Wortham Cemetery.

Mrs. Jefferson, a Homemaker, was a member of the Mexia State School Foster 
Grandparent Program from 1969 to 1999, the year she retired as a volunteer. 
She had received training as an LVN at the Chicago School of Nursing.

She was a member of Beulah Baptist Church of Wortham and served as a Mother 
of the Church, as a Choir member, was a member of the Mission program and 
Sunday School.

Mrs. Jefferson is survived by her foster daughter, Ruby Nell Dixon and husband
Walter of Amarillo; her brother, George L. Johnson (former announcer for KNES
Radio of Fairfield), of Buffalo; eight grandchildren and a host of nieces, 
nephews, and other relatives and friends.

Pallbearers are Kenneth Busby, Bobby Joe Freeman, Walter Dixon, Patrick 
Jefferson, Jeffrey Anders and Doug Jefferson.