Monday, January 29, 2018 4:20 pm

Deborah Owens Ford, 58, of Rocky Mount passed away Sunday, January 28, 2018. Her funeral service will be conducted at 7 p.m. Tuesday, January 30, at Joyner's Funeral Home, Wilson. Graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, January 31, in Tommy Owens Family Cemetery, Gardner School Road, Wilson. The Rev. Matthew Tondee and Rev. Floyd Holmes will officiate.

The family will receive friends Tuesday evening prior to the service and following the service at Joyner's Funeral Home, Wilson and other times at the home.

She is survived by her husband, James "Timmy" Ford of the home; her daughter, Tiffany F. Bell and husband, Michael of Pinetops; one granddaughter; her sisters, Lois Ann Medford of Tarboro, Carolyn King of Nashville, Margaret Saunders of Macclesfield, and Linda Owens of Rocky Mount; her brothers, Bobby Owens of Elm City, Tommy Owens of Rocky Mount, and Billy Owens of Elm City; special sisters-in-law and brothers in-law, and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Wesley and Josephine Pridgen Owens; sister, Betty Jean Braswell, and her brother, Alton Owens.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be directed to Faith Baptist Church, 4590 Faith Baptist Church Road, Pinetops, North Carolina 27864.

Arrangements by Joyner's Funeral Home, Wilson.