Extracted from The Tuscaloosa News (Tuscaloosa, AL)
Friday, September 30, 1983

Jake Deason

CENTREVILLE -- Funeral services for Jake S. Deason, 98, of Route 1, Centreville, who died Wednesday at the Bibb Medical Center, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Rockco Funeral Home. Dr. John Wesley Tatum and Elder Carver Deason will officiate with burial in the Little Hope Cemetery and Rockco Funeral Home directing.

Survivors include five sons, Jewel Deason, Centreville, Curtis Lee Deason, Brent, Ganus Deason, Centreville, Huey Deason, Pinson, and Jake W. Deason, Memphis, Tenn.; three daughters, Mrs. Augusta Daniel, Centreville, Mrs. Estelle Martin, Lewisburg, Va., and Mrs. Pinina Kane, Jackson, Miss.; 35 grandchildren; 122 great-grandchildren; 64 great-great-grandchildren.

Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

The family will receive friends from 7-9 tonight at the funeral home.