Vanessa Jones Simmons

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Vanessa Jones Simmons, 47, of Blytheville, died Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born June 5, 1963, in Osceola, to Edmond Jones and Inita Jones. She was a homemaker and a member of the New Gallilee Missionary Baptist Church in Burdette.

She was preceded in death by her father.

She leaves two sons, Dewayne Jones and Brian Jones, both of Blytheville;

Her mother, Inita Jones of Blytheville;

Five sisters, Elizabeth Jones, Tonya Jones Dillard and Elnora Bonds, all of Blytheville, Regina Cooper of Anchorage, Alaska, and Doris Jones Burton of Memphis;

Five brothers, Edmond Jones Jr. of South Carolina, Robert Lee Jones, Marvin Jones, Willie Lee Jones and Sammy Jones, all of Blytheville;

A grandparent, Earle Holloman of Sacramento, Calif.; and

One grandson, Da'quane O'Brien Jones.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the chapel of Wilson Funeral Home of Blytheville with the Rev. Leroy Nash officiating. Burial will follow in Sandy Ridge Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.