RUSSELL JACKSON

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Funeral for Russell Elmo Jackson of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. Bob Williams will officiate. Burial will be in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery.

Jackson, 76, died Sunday, Aug. 20, 2000, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Mo.

He was born Jan. 30, 1924, in New Madrid County, Mo., son of Daniel and Jessie Lee French Jackson. He and Allene Elizabeth Bright were married Dec. 30, 1954.

Jackson had lived in New Madrid and Mississippi counties all his life. He was a member of Union Local 282 in Cape Girardeau and First General Baptist Church in East Prairie.

Survivors include his wife; five sons, Ricky, Randy, Tommy, Billy and Robert Jackson, all of East Prairie; a daughter, Helen Fraizer of Paris, Texas; a brother, Lewis Jackson of Jackson, Miss.; a sister, Mabel Figley of Paducah, Ky.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and eight brothers.