ELIJAH JEFFERSON JR.


LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Elijah Jefferson Jr., 57, who died Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, at Gillfield Baptist Church, with the Rev. Thomas Richardson officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Surviving: daughter, Dominique Daley of Texas; sons, Andrew James Jefferson, Cory Elijah Jefferson and Brandon Patrick Jefferson, all of Queens, N.Y.; mother, Beulah Jefferson of Castalia; sisters, Dorothy Jean Kearney of Laurelton, N. Y., Annette Hogwood of Newport News, Va., Marjorie Leonard of Spring Hope, Martha Collins, Juanita Alston and Roselyn Edgerton, all of Louisburg; brothers, Michael Jefferson of Louisburg and Carl Jefferson of Castalia; and three grandchildren.

Open visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. today (Wednesday, Dec. 12) at Richardson Funeral Home in Louisburg.