Velora Cowson
Posted: January 20, 2017
WEST POINT — Velora Jackson Cowson, 84, died Jan. 15, 2017, at her residence. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Progress Street Church with Alvin E. Jackson officiating. Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation is from 3-6 p.m. today at Carter’s Mortuary Service Chapel in West Point. Mrs. Cowson was born March 12, 1932, to the late Jerry Jackson and Annie Mae Jamison Jackson. She is survived by her son, Alvin E. Jackson of Starkville and Jackie Jackson Cannon of West Point; sister, Myrtle Coleman of Indianapolis; 16 grandchildren; 43 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.