Editor’s note: Clara Johnson welcomes contributors to her weekly Shout Outs column. Send yours to bliving@thefacts.com.
Shouts of love and get-well prayers and blessings to a woman of grand grace and grandeur, the self-appointed mayor of Mims Community, co- founder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration and a phenomenal woman of God — Theresa Williams Jackson.
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Clara Johnson is a resident of Brazoria. Contact her at bliving@thefacts.com.
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