Iona Banks Trammell

ON THE MORNING OF TUESDAY, APRIL 12th 2016, IONA BANKS TRAMMELL, AGE 91, PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME PEACEFULLY SURROUNDED BY HER FAMILY TO BE REUNITED WITH HER HUSBAND OF MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS OSCAR Z. TRAMMELL. IONA BANKS TRAMMELL WAS BORN APRIL 10TH, 1925, IN CLINTON, LOUISIANA TO THE LATE SAM BANKS AND LIZETTE JOHNSON BANKS. IONA’S LIFE WAS DEDICATED TO CHRIST AT AN EARLY AGE AT NEELY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN BATON ROUGE UNTIL SHE UNITED WITH ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCH WHERE HER LOVE FOR THE CHURCH CONTINUED FOR 35YEARS.IN 1953, SHE MARRIED OSCAR Z. TRAMMELL. TO THIS UNION FOUR KIDS WERE BORN. SHE LEAVES TO CHERISH HER MEMORY A DEVOTED DAUGHTER, JACQUELINE TRAMMELL, THREE SON’S, DARRYL TRAMMELL, OSCAR TRAMMELL (TINA), AND GERALD TRAMMELL (KAREN), ALL OF BATON ROUGE. SHE ALSO IS SURVIVED BY TWO SISTERS, CORA LEE OF BATON ROUGE AND VIOLA JEFFERSON OF CLINTON, LA. TEN GRAND CHILDREN, CHRISTOPHER, GERALD JR, TASHA, CRYSTAL (JAY), LAMAR, STEVEN, ASHLEY, JASMINE, TAYLOR AND QUINTEN. TEN GREAT GRAND CHILDREN, A HOST OF NIECES AND NEPHEWS, RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IONA WAS PROCEEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS, SAM AND LIZETTE JOHNSON BANKS, HER HUSBAND, OSCAR Z. TRAMMELL, FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS.VISITATION WILL BE HELD AT GREENOAKS MEMORIAL PARK, 9595 FLORIDA BLVD ON MONDAY, APRIL 18TH, 2016 FROM 5PM UNTIL 7PM AND CONTINUE ON TUESDAY, APRIL 19TH, 2016 FROM 9AM UNTIL SERVICES AT 10AM. REV TOMMIE GIPSON WILL BE PRESIDING.