Funeral services were held Tuesday night at Roseberry City Baptist Church for Rufus L. Jackson, 80, of Cate Road, Claxton, who died Saturday at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge. The Rev. Walter L. Gosten, the Rev. R.E. James and the Rev. O.W. Willis officiated. Burial was Wednesday (today) at Tennessee State Veteran's Cemetery in Knoxville.

Mr. Jackson worked a porter for Oak Ridge Hospital of the Methodist Church for several years. He later worked at Oak Ridge Associated Universities and was a custodian in the Medical Division at ORAU until he retired on Sept. 28, 1973.

His parents were the late Henry and Mollie Thomas Jackson. Mr. Jackson was born in the Claxton community. He served in the Army. Mr. Jackson was a member of Roseberry City Baptist Church in Knoxville.

He and his wife, Mildred Nichols Jackson, by whom he is survived, were married on June 9, 1951, in Clinton.

Survivors also include two daughters and a son-in-law, Cheryl Jackson, and Gail and William Gordon, all of Claxton; two sons and a daughter-in-law, Paul Jackson of Atlanta, Ga.; Cedric Jackson of Claxton, and Hope Jackson of Atlanta; four sisters, Pearl Wilkerson and Avalina Martin, both of Claxton; Katherine Scott and Zelma Chance, both of Knoxville; a brother, Tony Jackson of Claxton; a brother-in-law and his wife, Andrew and Stella Nichols of Middletown, Ohio; a sister-in-law, Pauline Martin of Middletown and three grandchildren, Cameron Jackson of Atlanta and Kelisha and Kristopher Jackson, both of Alcoa.

Source:
Clinton Courier News
20 Jan. 1993