Funeral services for Barbra Jewell Lofton Ezell will be on Sunday, November 27, 2016, at Brookhaven Funeral Home (Natchez Drive) in Brookhaven, MS at 2:00 PM with burial to follow in the McCall Creek Church of God Cemetery in McCall Creek, MS. Bro. Bendon Ginn and Bro. Rodney Jones will be officiating the services with Brookhaven Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Visitation will be at Brookhaven Funeral Home (Natchez Drive) on Saturday, November 26, 2016, from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM.

Mrs. Ezell, 79, passed from this life on Thursday, November 24, 2016, at St. Dominic's Hospital in Jackson, MS, with her loving family by her side. She was born on December 13, 1936, in Wisner, LA, to T. M. and Bertha Lang Byrd Lofton. She was a member of Easthaven Baptist Church and loved teaching her Sunday School class (Dorcas) for many years; worked for many years as a Home Healthcare Assistant at the Franklin County Health Department and as a hostess for Brookhaven Funeral Home; and enjoyed waking up early during deer season to cook breakfast for the hunters in her family, and crocheting and sewing, even making her two daughter's wedding dresses. She was a loving daughter, sister, aunt, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend.

Preceding her in death were her parents, T. M. and Bertha Lang Byrd Lofton; her husband, Irvin Ezell; 2 sisters; and 1 brother.

Survivors are her daughters, Sha Ezell Priest and husband Mike of Meadville, MS, and Barbara Ezell Allred of Brookhaven, MS; son, Calvin Ezell and wife Lorraine of Brookhaven, MS; sisters, Laura Lofton Cotton of Baton Rouge, LA, and Mable Lofton Odeneal of Clinton, MS; grandchildren, Brooke Priest Chisholm and husband David, Kelly Priest Anding and husband Dusty, Sara Ezell Ferguson, and Kimberly Allred Wallace and husband Chancy; 9 great grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, family and friends.

Pallbearers are Lee Chisholm, Dakota Chisholm, Chancy Wallace, David Chisholm, Dusty Anding, Travis Lofton, Ronnie Keene and Doug Fortenberry. Honorary pallbearers are Bobby Odeneal, Rodney Blanchard, Preston Smith, Anthony Bell, and Bro. Phil Turner.

The family would like to extend a special thank you to the staffs of St. Dominic's Hospital and Stay Home Home Health; and Margaret Brown.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in Mrs. Ezell's name may be made to: McCall Creek Church of God Cemetery Fund.