A funeral service for Elonda Brown, 53, of Marshall, Texas will be held at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, November 6, 2022, in the Chapel of Downs Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Lewis Cemetery in Elysian Fields, Texas. A visitation for family and friends will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Saturday, November 5, 2022, at the funeral home.

Elonda was born on June 26, 1969, in Marshall, Texas to Tyrone Jones and Lillie Ruth Brown and passed away on October 28, 2022, at Christus Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview, Texas.

Later in life she was blessed with a second set of wonderful parents, Peggie and Virgil Bell. She attended school at Marshall ISD and graduated with the class of 1988 of Marshall High School. She was employed as a CNA and at Churches Chicken and EZ Mart in Marshall, Texas.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Lillie Ruth Brown; her son, Princeton Duwayne Brown and her maternal grandmother, Curley Mae Williams.

She leaves to cherish her memory, husband, Jerel Jones of Marshall, Texas; daughter, Symone C. Brown of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; five sisters, Wilbert Ruth Conner (Willie) of Duncanville, Texas, Sheila Harris, Angela Bell and Sandra Brown all of Marshall, Texas and Lillie Black of San Augustine, Texas; five brother, Barry Brown (Kim) of Los Angeles, California, Jerry Brown of Rusk, Texas, Mark Brown (Sandra) and Cedric Black all of Marshall, Texas and Sheldon Robinson of Dallas, Texas; three granddaughters, Zanyia Brown, Arnecia Brown and Tyasia Brown along with a host of nieces, nephews and other family and friends.