Funeral services for Alma Jefferson, ofEast St. Louis, Ill., are noon on Friday, Dec. 23, at Parson HillM.B. Church in Liberty, with burial in Zion Hill Cemetery. The Rev.Robert Perkins will be officiating. Williams Mortuary is in chargeof arrangements.

    Visitation is Friday from 11 a.m. until noon at the church.

    Mrs. Jefferson, 88, died Dec. 10, 2011, in East St. Louis. She wasborn in Amite County on June 26, 1923.