Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Sunday, June 21, 1970

Jessie E. Woods

Funeral services for Jessie E. Woods, 70, of 330 DeWitt St., will be held Monday at 10 a.m. from Baldwin Funeral Home Chapel. Brigadier C. C. Robey of the Salvation Army will officiate.

Burial will follow in Cedarlawn Cemetery.

Woods died at his daughter's residence in Terry Saturday after a short illness.

He was a native of Summerall [sic Sumrall], but had lived in Jackson for the past 35 years.

He is survived by his widow, Pearl Woods of Jackson; two daughters, Mrs. Louis Shelley, of Terry, and Mrs. Ruth Hodges of Bossier City, La.; three sons, Grady and Bob Woods of Bossier City, La., and Billy Woods of Dallas, Tex.