DONALD “RAY” JEFFERSON


CASTALIA - Funeral services for Donald “Ray” Jefferson, 57, who died Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011, will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 15, at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. Linda Taybron officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Surviving: wife, Yvonne Silver Jefferson of the home; daughter, Wakenda Peace (Christopher) of Castalia; grandmother, Beaulah Jefferson of Centerville; mother and stepfather, Dorothy and Wilbert Kearney of Queens, N.Y.; sister, Rhonda Pack of Queens, N.Y.; brothers, Douglas Jefferson of the home and Shawn Kearney of Queens, N.Y.; and three grandchildren.

Wake services will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14, at Richardson Funeral Home in Louisburg.