Shirley Ann Graham Jackson

Published 6:26 pm Friday, April 30, 2010

Services for Shirley Ann Graham Jackson, of Wesson, are 11 a.m.Saturday, May 1, at Hazlehurst High School Gymnasium in Hazlehurst,with burial in St. John Cemetery in Wesson. Williams Mortuary is incharge of arrangements.

Visitation is Friday from 1 until 6 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Jackson, 60, died April 25, 2010, at the University ofMississippi Medical Center in Jackson. She was born in Hazlehurston Oct. 27, 1949, to Issac W. Graham and Mattie Mae SmileyGraham.

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She was a graduate of Hazlehurst High School. She was retired after40 years as head custodian for the Hazlehurst City School District.She was a member of Old St. John Missionary Baptist Church, andvice president of the Pearl Sisters singing group.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her daughter, Tracy AnnJackson; her brother, Issac Graham Jr.; and her sisters, SheliaDenise Graham and Annie Pearl Whigham.

Survivors are her daughters, Melody Renae Thomas, Meshell Wilson,Franchesca Jackson and Latonya Jackson, all of Wesson; her brother,Ed Robinson, of Crystal Springs; her sisters, Irma Jean Luckett, ofIndianapolis, Ind., Rosa Louise Walker, of Brookhaven, and MozellaWilton and Lindnell Lofton, both of Hazlehurst; her 11grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren; and many nieces, nephewsand other relatives.