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 By  Staff Reports Published 
8:40 pm Thursday, February 1, 2001

OBITUARIES FOR WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1, 2001

By Staff
EDNA LEE LEWIS
Homemaker
DEKALB Services for Edna Lee Lewis will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at Friendship Baptist Church in Collinsville. Burial will be in the church cemetery with E.E. McDonald Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Ms. Lewis, 93, of Collinsville, died Saturday, Jan. 27, 2001, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Survivors include a son, Clinton Lewis Jr. and his wife, Christine, of Collinsville; a daughter, Julia Dixon and her husband, Rudolph of Milwaukee, Wis.; a sister, Beulah McDonald of Meridian, nine grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, four great-great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by three sisters.
Visitation will be Friday from 12-5 p.m. at the funeral home in Meridian and Saturday from noon-1 p.m. at the church.
TONY LAMAR JACKSON
Employee of Long's Wholesale
Services for Tony Lamar Jackson will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Richard Parker and S.L. Walker officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Mr. Jackson, 33, of Meridian, died Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2001, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Survivors include four daughters, Ty'esha Jackson, Ade'resha Jackson, Brittany Jackson and Jasmine Jackson, all of Meridian; his mother, Helen Jackson of Meridian ; his father, Clarence Temple of Meridian; three sisters, Katherine Jackson of Atlanta, Lisa Jackson and Linda Jackson, both of Meridian; five brothers, Eddie Jackson and James Jackson, both of Scooba and Wille Jackson of Cleveland, Michael Jackson of Tampa, Fla. and Marcus Jackson of Meridian.
He was preceded in death by a brother, Clarence Jackson.
Visitation will be Friday from 6-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
MARSHALL LEE LANDRUM III
Employee of a construction company
DEKALB Services for Marshall Lee Landrum III will be held Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Walker Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church in Meridian with the Rev. Marshall Lee Landrum Sr. officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with E.E. McDonald Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Landrum, 23, of Meridian, died Saturday, Jan. 27, 2001, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Survivors include his parents, Marshall Lee and Lorene Landrum Jr. of Meridian; his grandmother, Ruby Collins of Houston; two brothers, Antonio Hill and Lester Landrum, both of Meridian; four sisters, Debra Landrum, LaTonya Brown and Maria Landrum, all of Meridian and Stephanie Landrum of Columbus; and several uncles, aunts, nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his grandmother.
Visitation will be Friday from 6-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
ODESSA M. REYNOLDS
Arrangements were incomplete at James F. Webb Funeral Home for Odessa M. Reynolds, 82, of Meridian, who died Thursday, Feb. 1, 2001, at Beverly Health of Broadmoor.
THOMAS K. JENKINS
Arrangements were incomplete at James F. Webb Funeral Home for Thomas K. Jenkins, 68, of Meridian, who died Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2001, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.

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