Funeral services for Rosie Woodhouse Duckett will be 11 a.m. Saturday, May 26, at Jackson Street M. B. Church at with the Rev. Trollars Moore officiating. Interment will follow at Hickory Tree Cemetery with W. H. Jefferson Funeral Home in charge.

Visitation will be Friday, May 25, at the funeral home from 5 to 7 p.m.

Ms. Duckett was born on Sept. 15, 1934, in Vicksburg (Bovina), to Winfield and Gertrude Green Woodhouse.

As a teenager, she accepted Christ at Hickory Tree M.B.C. in Bovina. She attended Hickory Tree High School in Bovina. After high school, she moved to southern California, where she started her family. She united with New Temple M.B.C., then with Grace Bible Assembly, both in Los Angeles.

She was preceded in death by her daughter, Marsha; her son, Leon; her grandsons,

Jamar and Darryl; her granddaughter, Monique; her parents, Winfield and Gertrude Woodhouse; six sisters, Florence, Annie, Mittie, Mary, Mariah and Emma; four brothers, Jessie, Winfield, Samuel and James. She was the youngest and the last branch from The Winfield and Gertrude Woodhouse family tree.

After 25 years of service, she retired from the city of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. She decided to relocate back home to the place of her birth, Vicksburg, where she united with Jackson Street Missionary Baptist Church and served faithfully until her health began to fail her.

She leaves to mourn her, her offspring, three daughters, Rosella (Reginald), Linda

(Dwight), and Teralyn (Esteban); four sons, Roosevelt, Harvie, Mark (Marta) and John (Alice); 27 grandkids; 61 great-gran kids; and 11 great-great-grand kids who all called her “Granny.”

Many loving nieces and nephews who all called her Aunt Rose; the Woodhouse and Green Families; and a host of friends.