Mae Helen Jefferson's Obituary
Mae Helen McCaulie born to John L. and Louise Gadberry- McCaulie on November 28, 1934. She was raised in Dallas, TX and was the eldest of four children. She had three brothers, John Jr, Belvedere and Charlie McCaulie. Mae attended school in Dallas and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School.
Mae grew up in Pentecostal Churches. She sang soprano, and played the tambourine and the drums in the church band.
After graduation Mae worked at her cousin Jeanettes’s Beauty Shop as her assistant for about a year. She left Texas and moved to Richmond, California with her grandmother Betty Lewis and lived with her cousins.
She worked a job as waitress at a burger place where she met her first husband. Fletcher Lemuel, Sr. and moved to Sacramento where he was stationed at McClellan Air Force Base and from that union there were six children. After 14 years as a homemaker, Mae began working as a caregiver for the elderly. She also worked as a Dietary Technician in various care homes in the Sacramento area. She worked at the Sacramento Memorial Hospital in food service and Red Lion Inn as a housekeeper for several years. She later retired for health reasons.
Mae belonged to various churches in Sacramento, New Jerusalem Baptist Church, Shiloh Baptist Church, Calvary Christian Church and Paradise Missionary Baptist Church. Mae was well loved wherever she went. She had a wonderful personality and was quite feisty and she could always make you laugh. All of the children’s friends and families loved her and called her Mom and were always welcome in the home and she treated them like one of her own. She loved to bake and fed everybody cakes and pies. She also loved to dance, sing and go to bingo. She even shared season passes to the A’s games with her best friend Marie Griffith who preceded her in death. Her last five years she lived at Whitney Oaks Care Center where as “Mae-Mae” she brought joy, made many friends and was loved by the staff.
Preceding her in death was her second husband Jim Jefferson, her parents John L, and Louise McCaulie, all three of her brothers, John L. Jr., Belvedere and Charlie McCaulie, her youngest daughter, Barbara Lemuel and great grandson JaeZon Frazier. Mae Helen is survived by her children: Bertha Moten, Patricia Franklin (James Franklin), Lorraine Feltus (Willie Feltus), Donna Lemuel, and Fletcher Lemuel Jr. all in Sacramento. Grandchildren: Deshon McIntosh (Ashley), Lashona Bonner ( Jason Bonner), Jehnon Johnson, Jazmin and Joslynn Frazier, Eric Taylor (Sheila) in Ada, OK, Deric Hawkins (Kelsey) in Arbuckle, CA. She is also survived by 17 great grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends….
Mae Helen fought the good fight of faith… I Timothy 6:12
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