> Evening News, Sat., Feb. 4, 1995

Ella M. Knight

Mrs. Ella M. (Jackie) Knight,
61, of Flat Rock died of an
embolism at 2:37 p.m. Thursday
in Seaway Hospital, Trenton.

Friends may call from 2 p.m. to
9 p.m. today and from noon to 5
p.m. Sunday in the Arthur
Bobcean Funeral Home Inc., Flat
Rock. She will lie in state from
11 am. Monday until services
at noon that day in the Com-
munity Lutheran Church, Flat
Rock. The Rev. David Gohn of
Community Lutheran Church will
officiate. Entombment will be in
Michigan Memorial Park, Flat
Rock.

Born April 29, 1933, in Wyan-
dotte, she was the daughter of
Charles H. and Esther Z. (Drake)
Jackson. She married Mark W.
Knight on Nov. 11, 1951, in
Wyandotte.

Mrs. Knight was a 1951 gradu-
ate of Slocum-Truax High School
in Trenton. She started her career
before graduation and worked as
a bookkeeper for retail businesses
in the Downriver area for 30 years.
She retired in 1980.

She was a charter member of
Community Lutheran Church,
having joined in 1979. She
served as the church’s bookkeeper,
first financial secretary and funer-
al lunch director, and was a
soloist. She also was active in the
church’s prayer chain and caring
ministries.

In addition, Mrs. Knight served
Meals on Wheels, worked with the
Boy Scouts in Brownstown Town-
ship and was a member of the
Maple School PTA.

Surviving are her husband,
Mark W. of Flat Rock; three sons,
Michael and Timothy of Flat Rock
and Anthony of Highland; two
daughters, Mrs. Carl (Deborah)
DeLage of Dearborn and Mrs.
Tim (Marcella) Gould of Flat
Rock; three brothers, Dale Jack-
son of Clearwater, Fla., Gerald
Jackson of Riverview and Fred
Jackson of Flat Rock; two sisters,
Doris Brillowsky of Trenton and
Pamela Krzeminski of Carleton,
and seven grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by
three brothers, Bill, Robbie and
Bobbie Jackson, and a sister, Vir-
ginia Jackson.