Funeral services for Hellen Joyce Thompson, 73, of Jacksonville, will be 1 pm Saturday, March 29, 2014 at Gray Brown-Service Chapel with Pastor Darryl League officiating. Burial will follow at Union United Methodist Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Saturday from 11 am – 1 pm at the funeral home. Mrs. Thompson passed away on Saturday, March 22, 2014, at her residence.

Survivors include one daughter, Evangeline “Van” Spears, two sons, Timothy Mize and Bruce Clements, 5 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, two sisters, Ruth Adams and Elizabeth Chapman.

Mrs. Thompson is preceded in death by her father, Walter G. Thompson, mother, Amanda Lera Finch, sister, Nettie T. Johnson, brothers, Robert G. Thompson and Melvin Ross Owens and granddaughter, Jennifer Nichole Mize.

Pallbearers will be family and friends.

Mrs. Thompson was a native and lifelong resident of Calhoun County. She attended Harvest Church of God. Arrangements under the direction of Gray Brown-Service Mortuary & Crematory, Anniston, Alabama.