Melvin M. Jackson

Melvin M. Jackson Melvin M. Jackson, 80, of Washington, D.C., a retired United States Postal Service Supervisor, died Tuesday, December 28, 2010, at his daughter's home in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Mr. Jackson was born in Faber, October 20, 1930, to the late Helen and McKinley Jackson.

As a young man, he gained a lot of experience in logging and farming by working on the family property in Faber. After graduating from the Nelson County Training School in June 1947, he worked in a veneering plant in Amherst and for a logging company in Charlottesville.

Mr. Jackson honorably served in the United States Army during the Korean War from 1952 to 1954. In 1959, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he obtained a job with the United States Postal Service as a postal clerk and remained at the United States Postal service for 32 years, until his retirement in 1991.

Mr. Jackson grew up in a Christian family. During his youth he attended Cedar Grove Baptist and Mount Airy Baptist churches in Faber. He was a long-time active member of Union Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church in Washington, D.C., where he served on the Senior Usher Board.

On August 27, 2010, Mr. Jackson celebrated 50 years of marriage to his wife, Emma Gene, who survives him. They resided in Washington, D.C.

In addition, his survivors include his two daughters, Melva Jackson of North Plainfield, New Jersey, and Glenda Thomas of Framingham, Massachusetts; two brothers, Albert Jackson of Linden, New Jersey, and Warren Jackson of Faber; a sister, Delores J. Whindleton of Faber; one sister-in-law, Agnes Jackson; one brother-in-law, Amos Whindleton; two aunts, Verlease J. Bell of Charlottesville, and Shirley J. Mills of Newark, New Jersey. And a host of other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be held 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 4, 2011, at Union Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church, 1860 Michigan Avenue North East, Washington, D.C., with the Reverend Dr. Alvin T. Durant officiating.

Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. until the time of the service, at the church.

Interment will follow at Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Maryland.

Condolences may be sent to the family at www.jfbellfuneralhome.com

Bianchi Funeral Service, Washington, D.C., is in charge of arrangements.


This obituary was originally published in the Daily Progress.