Mattie Cheateam
Posted: July 22, 2016
COLUMBUS — Mattie Lou Jackson Cheateam, 88, died July 16, 2016, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Services will be at noon, Saturday, at Stephen Chapel MB Church in Columbus with the Rev. Joe L. Peoples officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Gardens. Visitation is from noon-6 p.m., today, at Carter’s Funeral services. Mrs. Cheateam was born June 21, 1928, to the late Beamon Jackson and Sallie Jackson. She was a member of Stephen Chapel MB Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Jimmie Lee Cheateam Sr.; sons, Jimmie Lee Cheateam Jr. and Ossie B. Webber; siblings, Taft Jackson, B.J. Jackson, Annie Bell Williams, Martha Lou Harris, Ersie Walker and Earline Wallace. She is survived by her children, Deola Cheateam of Artesia, I.B. Jackson of Columbus and John H. Jackson of St. Louis, Missouri; 15 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and 12 great-great-grandchildren.