Freestone County, Texas Obituaries Mexia Daily News - Wednesday, August 1, 1956 - Page 1 Mary L. Jefferson Funeral Services At Grove Island Funeral services will be held at the Grove Island AME Church tomorrow at 2 p.m. for Mary Louise Jefferson, 20, who died in a Dallas hospital Monday. Rev. C. C. Collins will officiate and burial will be in the Grove Island cemetery with the Dorsey-Keatts Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Mary Louise was born in Mexia on Nov. 16, 1935 and lived here most of her life. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Eddie Lee Walkere, Dallas; her father, J, C. Jefferson, Almeta, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Bettie Washington, Dallas, and two brothers, Willie Ray Jefferson, Fort Hood, und Maurice Jefferson, Dallas.