"Ma" Lackey Dies at 96
January 10, 1972
Mrs. Carolyn M. "Ma" Lackey, 96 year old resident of the Twin Oaks
Nursing Home, died at 3:35 p.m. Sunday in the Jacksonville hospital
following an extended illness.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Thompson Funeral
Chapel with Rev. Almer Kelly and Rev. Kenneth Flynt officiating. Burial
will follow in the City Cemetery.
Mrs. Lackey was born February 8, 1875 in Charlotte, North Carolina. She
was a member of the First Baptist Church, Jacksonvillle.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Ira Simpson, Jacksonville and Mrs.
Wayne Haynes Elmonte, California; two nieces, Mrs. W. C. Shiefield,
Raleigh, North Carolina and Mrs. J. E. Barnett, Decautur, Georgia; four
granddaughters and seven great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Frank Speary, George A. Peterson, Jack Abbott, Edwin
Gunter, Henry Lindner and Carl Schultz.
Information from Newspaper Obituaries 1962-1983 Cherokee County, Texas Book 4