Brenda Joyce Jones

Brenda Jones passed away on Tuesday, July 13 in Chesterton, Ind. following a brief illness. She was 71. She was a retired teacher, a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and was a 1971 graduate of Alcorn State University.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Leonard Frank Williams and Caesar Bell Jones, and a brother, Kevin Williams.

She is survived by her daughter Kendra (Max) Weathersby, of Portage, Ind.; her brother Issac Jones, Jr., of Chicago, Ill.; her sisters Janice Williams, Linda K. Powell and Donna Jones, all of Vicksburg, and Marcia (Gigi) Bello of Anchorage, Alaska; her stepmother Dorothy Williams of Maricopa, Ark.; a sister-in-law Sherell Williams of Maricopa and a grandson, Max Weathersby II.