Winnie Jean Coleman Ford

DOTHAN…Mrs. Winnie Jean Ford, a resident of Dothan, passed away early Thursday morning April 10, 2024, in Ozark Health & Rehabilitation Facility. She was 72.

            Homegoing services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Thursday, April 18, 2024, in the Fuqua Bankston Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Ricky Williams officiating. Burial will follow in St. Peter Cemetery, near Texasville.  Fuqua Bankston Funeral Home of Ozark is in charge of arrangements. The family will receive friends from 1:00 until 2:00 P.M. Thursday at the funeral home.

          She was united in holy matrimony to Thomas Ford in July 1969, and their union was blessed with four children. Her husband preceded her death on July 30, 2016.

           Mrs. Ford loved reading her Bible, praising God, spending time with her family, and cooking. Before her health failed, she enjoyed fishing, shopping, and helping others. She was a very sweet person with a wonderful heart, who was always thinking of others, and was loved by everyone she met. She quietly departed this life on April 10, 2024.

           Along with her husband, she was preceded in death by her brothers, Alonza Coleman Jr., Eddie Lee Coleman, and Jimmy Coleman; her sisters, Lola Davis, Annie Pearl Reynolds, Luevenia Russaw, Taynisha Robinson (Ella Mearl), and Barbara Sistrunk; a grandson, Mark Anthony Ford; and a son in law, Watson Walker. 

           She is survived by her children, Robert Coleman (Rosie), Mark Ford, Jennifer Ford, and Angela Ford, all of Rochester, New York; sisters, Ruby (Earl B.) Williams of Ozark, Beatrice Anglin of Eufaula, Sarah (James) Glenn of Texasville, Gladys Coleman of Clio, Helen Glenn and Dorothy (Marvin) Kite both of Dothan; sixteen grandchildren; six great grandchildren; two special cousins, Annie Bell Reese and John D. Baxter of Rochester, New York; two God-daughters, Sylvia Chambers and Evelyn Rockwell; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.