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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Memorial: Sister Margie "Peggie" Jackson Vernon and Levette Vernon

"Because There Are No Endings"
Sister Margie "Peggie" Jackson Vernon
Alpha (unknown)
Omega August 18, 1970
and
Levette Vernon
Alpha November 28, 1969
Omega August 19, 1970

Service Sunday, August 23, 1970

Death was riding the highways and claimed the lives of the Vernon Family in a head-on collision near Fort Wayne, Indian, Tuesday, August 18, 1970.

Mrs. Margie Jackson Vernon was the daughter of the late Dillie and Marania Jackson. She grew up in the Mt. Pleasant Community and was educated in the schools of Ouachita Parish. She united with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church at a youthful age and served well.

She was a 1956 graduate of Southern University and worked in the educational systems of Washington and Caldwell Parishes of Louisiana; New Mexico, Ohio, Illinois and Arizona.

She was united in matrimony to the late Levi S. Vernon. To this union two daughters were born.

Her survivors include one daughter, LaSuntha Vernon, Ft. Wayne, Indiana Hospital; three sisters, Mrs. Edith Odell, Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. Thelma Martin and Miss Odell Jackson, Monroe, Louisiana; three brothers, Mr. Hosea Jackson, West Monroe, Louisiana; Mr. John S. Jackson, Calhoun, Louisiana and Mr. Fred W. Jackson, Angie, Louisiana; several nieces and nephews and a host of other relatives and friends.

Levette Vernon was born November 28, 1969 in Columbia, Ohio, She departed this life August 19, 1970 at 2:30 am in the Ft. Wayne, Indiana Hospital.

Because there are no endings
In all creation's text,
Each chapter merges gradually
Into what is coming next.
And when I pause to glance beyond
My own short-sighted wall,
I see no final chapter
To anything at all.

Elizabeth Landeweer

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