Rosie Craft

Published 10:21 am Thursday, August 20, 2015

Funeral services for Rosie Craft will be Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015, at Cool Springs M. B. Church with the Rev. Byron Maxwell officiating. Burial will follow at Greenlawn Gardens under the direction of W. H. Jefferson Funeral Home.

Visitation will be Friday from 7 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Craft died Monday, Aug. 17, at her home. She was 89.

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She was a retired cook for the Vicksburg Warren School District and was a longtime cook in the kitchen at First Baptist Church. She was a member of the Cool Springs M. B. Church, where she was a mother of the church a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and the Willing Workers Society.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Mattie Jones Presswood Sr.; husband, Louis Craft; and brother, L. C Presswood.

She is survived by her son, Benny Craft of Vicksburg; brother, Robert Presswood Jr. of Indianapolis; sister, Dorothy Oglesby of Kankakee, Ill.; five grandchildren; five great grandchildren; and nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends.