A resident of Magnolia, Miss., Leona Jones Crow died at 5:57 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb.

She was born April 24, 1934, in Independence and was 78.

She worked over 30 years for Croft Metals.

She is survived by one daughter, Trudy Armfield and husband, Robin; one son, Wayne Ford and wife, Sybil; three sisters, Eva Mae Carney, Charlene Mandella and Rachael Costanza; one brother, Charles Walter Ford; and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Tommie Joe Crow; parents, Charles and Eva Jones; daughter, Tracy Lynette Ford; son, Ronnie Lee Ford; three sisters, Betty Morris, Mary Jones "Peggy" Micelli and Easter Costanza; and four brothers, Lee, C.T., Bobby and Johnny Jones.

Visitation is at McKneely Funeral Home in Amite from 8 a.m. until religious services at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 9, 2013. Services conducted by Bro. Dale Ziebarth. Interment at Ford Cemetery.

Pallbearers are Timothy Allen, Jason Ford, Willie Ford, Michael Kirkland, Joseph Kirkland and Joshua Ford.

For an online guestbook, visit www.mckneelys.com.