Elvestra Jackson Morrison

Published 9:13 am Friday, June 19, 2015

EDWARDS — Funeral services for Elvestra Jackson Morrison will be 2 p.m. Sunday, June 21, 2015, at Cherry Grove M. B. Church in Edwards. Burial will follow in the church cemetery under the direction of Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home. Visitation will be Sunday at the church from 1 p.m. until the hour is service.

Mrs. Morrison died June 17, 2015, at Central Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. She was 87.

Born in Edwards on July 30, 1927, she was a retiree from the Mississippi State Hospital and the Food Services Division of the Jackson Public Schools.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Minion Morrison; her parents, Richard Jackson and Lizzie Lomax Jackson; and ten siblings.

Survivors include one son, Dr. K.C, Morrison of Starkville; a daughter, Elizabeth Morrison Nimox of Jackson; two grandchildren; Terence Nimox of Jackson, and Dr. Iyabo Morrison of Alexandria, Va.; and a number of other relatives and friends.