On September 2, 1914 a bouncing baby girl was born to Joseph and Alma Jones in Eufaula, OK. She was the 2 ^nd child born to this union. The family later moved to Muskogee when she was about five years old. Her education I Muskogee began at Douglas Elementary and she graduated from Historic Manual Training High School.

She was a member of Dean's Chapel Baptist Church for more than 70 years and was a part of the building foundation packing and toting bricks to lay the foundation. Her life was built around her family and church.

She married Phelma Jackson and to this union were five children; Jacelia, Edward, Saundra, and Nelson all who preceded her in death. She later married Holsey Wafer and they were together for more than twenty years. He also preceded her in death. She later in life was reunited with her teenage sweetheart the late Rev J.L. Potter.

As a member of Dean's Chapel, she held several offices including church secretary, church librarian, mission president, program chairman for the mission and superintendent of Sunday school for more than 20 years. Church work always has been a part of her life.

She traveled extensively, attending district, state and national meetings. She taught in the Collate District Congress of Christian Education for more than 40 years, and held office in the Oklahoma Baptist State Women's Auxiliary. She is the only woman to hold the office of President of Collate District Congress of Christian Education.

At the age of 82 she was still helping to beautify her church, cultivating beautiful flower gardens and a robust vegetable garden every year before the parking lot was built. She planted and cared for flowers in two brick beds on each side of the church entrance. That project lasted more than 20 years. Her home also had large flower beds, always blooming in full color and a large vegetable garden. She had a special green thumb when it came to bringing gardens to life.

She was a loving and giving person and no sacrifice was too good or too much when it came to her family and those she didn't know even to feeding traveler's hopping off trains near her house.

She loved to dress and you never saw her without a hat attending church.  She holds a degree in theology and has a degree from the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education in library work and Christian education. Church was truly her life's work.

Left to lament her home going; A daughter, Joyce L. Jackson, Muskogee; A sister, Sadie Carlis of Texas, Grandchildren; Tracy Brewer of Muskogee, Tonesha & Jimmie Rucker, Lawton, OK, Tim & Brandy Brewer, Austin, TX, Terrance, Sherman TX, Phyllis & Pat Rucker, Muskogee OK, Ann & Victor Scott, Rialto, CA, Connie & Sammie Bryant, Sherman TX; 14 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, 20 great-great- grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews and cousins.

Her final hour will be shared on Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 2:00 PM in the Dean's Chapel Baptist Church,  20th & Maryland Streets.  Reverend Don Dumas, Pastor, will Preside.