Heart Attack Fatal To Dickens Resident
Funeral services were held Monday in the First Baptist church in Dickens for Charlie Martin Jackson, 65, who died almost instantly of a heart attack about 2:15 Saturday while working on a county road bridge approximately three miles southeast of Dickens. Mr. Jackson is an employee of the county and has lived in Dickens for about 3 years. Rev. W. B. Teal, pastor officiated.Burial was in the Dickens cemetery.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Monnie Jackson; 3 sons; Amos, Homer and Foy, one brother, Dillard Jackson and three grandchildren. All live at Dickens.
©The Texas Spur, December 5, 1946
DICKENS (Special) - Services for Mrs. Minnie Telitha Jackson, 76, who died at her home here at 6:10 p.m. Sunday, will be at 4 p.m. today in the First Baptist Church here.She had been ill three months.
Burial will be in Dickens Cemetery under direction of Campbell Funeral Home, Spur.
Mrs. Jackson, born in Wood County, moved to Dickens County in 1915.
Survivors include three sons, Amos L. Jackson, Homer D. Jackson, and Raymond F. Jackson, all of Dickens; two brothers, J. D. Bradley, Amarillo, and Floyd Bradley, Matador; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Mayo, Dickens and Mrs. W.M. Thacker, Idalou; 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Bob Porter, Thurman Lewis, Frank Murphy, Guy Fleming, Fred Arrington, and Oma Clay.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, 1963
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