Lana Diane Livesay
Lana Diane Livesay, 62, of Jonesboro, passed away on Friday, Sept. 20, 2024.
She was born on July 5, 1962, in Cape Girardeau, the daughter of Gene and Doris Jean West Williams.
On April 17, 1981, she married her love and life partner, Rick Livesay, and he survives.
She was a lifelong member of Galilee Baptist Church in Wolf Lake. She always had a servant’s heart in all that she did. She was a beloved wife, mom and MaMa, never missing any of her grandkids’ events.
She had just retired four months ago from Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative. Before the Cooperative, she had previously worked at the Union County Highway Department, the Union County Courthouse, the Wes Wilkins Law Office, as a teacher’s aide at Jonesboro School and catered with Great Boars.
She had a tremendous impact on local athletics, serving as a second mom to every player Rick coached. She was Rick’s right hand at all Anna-Jonesboro Community High School sporting events. She loved her sister trips to the beach, ice cream and M&Ms.
Along with her husband, she is survived by her sons, Ryan and Kacie Livesay and Cody and Samantha Livesay; daughter Shana and Shawn Brasher; four grandchildren, Keller, Camden, Corbin and Maren; sisters Debbie and Gary Hileman and Vicki and Rodney Reynolds; Rick’s mother, Doris Livesay; Rick’s brothers, Ron and Sandy Livesay and Gary and Teresa Livesay; many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by two sisters, Linda and Dick Ford and Connie Wills; Rick’s Dad, Robert “Bud” Livesay; and three nieces, Toni Ford, Kelli Henson and Marissa Reynolds.
Services for Lana Livesay were at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, at Crain Funeral Home in Anna-Jonesboro, with Bill Littrell and Kenny Verble officiating. Inurnment followed at Casper Cemetery near Anna.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests with gratitude that memorial donations be made to Family Heart Foundation (Lana, along with sisters, were advocates for this organization) at https://familyheart.org/ and/or to the AJCHS Athletic Department.
The cremation of Lana Diane Livesay has been personally handled by the staff of Crain Funeral Home.
Crain Funeral Home in Anna-Jonesboro was in charge of arrangements.
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Crain Funeral Home in Anna-Jonesboro was in charge of arrangements.