Vania Grant died Saturday, July 24, 2010, at Emory Adventist Hospital in Atlanta. She was 20.

Ms. Grant was a member of Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church. She attended Hinds Community College.

She was preceded in death by her brother, Jonathan Vincent Brown; and two sisters, Brittany Oliver Laver and Marcella Machelle Brown.

She is survived by her parents, Anetra Oliver Jackson of Hazlehurst and Curtis Grant of Danville, Ill.; stepparents, Henry Jackson Sr. of Hazlehurst and the Rev. Gregory and Cassandra Butler of Byram; four brothers, Paul Oliver and Henry Jackson Jr., both of Hazlehurst, and Jessie Haywood and Jonathan White Brown Powell, both of Danville; three sisters, Autumn Grant of Byram, Marcella LaShell Brown of Hazlehurst and Marcelle Crosby of Pensacola, Fla.; two stepsisters, Teresa Catchings and Solisa Catchings, both of Hazlehurst; and other relatives and friends.

Services will be at 11 a.m. today at Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church with the Rev. Gregory Butler officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery.