Lorine M. Jefferson

Published 12:00 am Friday, April 24, 2009

CHICAGO — Lorine M. Jefferson died Sunday, April 19, 2009, in Chicago. She was 92.

Mrs. Jefferson was a native of Vicksburg where she lived until moving to Chicago in 1994. She was employed by M. Finn and Sons and the Warren County School System. She was a member of Pleasant Green Baptist Church and was a member of the senior choir. She was a member of Christian Home Society and a member of the Eastern Star Organization.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Ben and Susie Turner Wilson; her husband, Solomon Jefferson; and a brother, Clarence Leon Wilson.

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Survivors include her daughter, Edna Mary Parks-Robertson of Chicago; a sister, Marie “Doll” Wilson-Johnson of Hazlecrest, Ill.; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and members of the Smith family of Vicksburg.

Services will be at 2:30 today at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago with the Rev. Otis Moss III officiating. Burial will follow at Mount Hope Cemetery in Chicago.