The funeral service for Frances Speights will be 2 p.m., Tuesday, August 22, at Riverwood Family, with burial in Easthaven Cemetery. Visitation is from Noon until the time of the service at Riverwood.
Mrs. Speights, 89, passed from this life on Friday, August 18, 2023, at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, MS. She was born February 28, 1934, in Prentiss, MS to Johnny Roger Lee and Edna Bozeman Lee. Mrs. Speights was a homemaker. Being a mom and creating a wonderful home environment was her goal. She did that exceptionally well. Mrs. Speights was a Godly woman, who loved her family and church family.
Preceding her in death were her parents Johnny Roger Lee and Edna Bozeman Lee; husband, Francis Joe Speights; daughter Betsy Ann Speights; grandson Caleb Joe Harrison; brothers, Roger Lee, Robert Lee, John S. Lee, and Harold B. Lee; and sisters, Johnnie Sheltra, Louise Webb, and Mary Annette Morris.
Those left to cherish her memory are her daughter, Pam Harrison and husband Joel; her son Joseph Scott Speights and wife Sharon; grandchildren, Laura Tarver and husband Jacob, Anna Traxler and husband Ryan, and Luke Harrison; great grandson, Jaxson Hayes Traxler, and her sister Becky McGee and husband John William McGee, and a host of nieces and nephews. She is also survived by two men and their families who are family to her. They are Eric and Kathy Storm, and their children Sydney and Sam, and John and Natacia Storm, and their children Mitchell and Justin.
In lieu of flowers, memorials in Frances Lee Speights name may be made to: Easthaven Baptist Church, Haven Cross Fund.