Wilhelmina Jackson Wakefield
2024
Wilhelmina J. Wakefield was the ninth of ten children born to the late Frank and Jessie Jackson on September 21, 1930 in Columbia, South Carolina. She departed this life to journey onward to her heavenly home on August 26, 2024 in Greenwood, South Carolina. It was in the Emerald City where she raised a beautiful, loving family with her husband, educated many generations of young minds as a teacher, served her community by helping those in need, and prayed daily as a faithful servant of the Lord. She was affectionately known by her family and close friends as Billie, but jokingly, by her granddaughter as, "the Jackie Kennedy of Greenwood." Mrs. Wakefield was a fashionable woman who...