Iona Dean

Iona Harrell Dean, 94, of Vada, GA, passed away Friday, November 4, 2011 at her residence. The funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at Prosperity Primitive Baptist Church with Elder Walter Todd and Rev. Tim Dean officiating. Interment will follow at Prosperity Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery with her grandchildren serving as active pallbearers. Her nephews will serve as honorary pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Monday, November 7, 2011 at Ivey Funeral Home. Online visitors may sign the guest register at www.iveyfuneral.com . Memorial donations may be made to Prosperity Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, c/o Dorothy Morris, 369 Martin Road, Bainbridge, GA 39817 or to Hospice of Southwest Georgia, 1323 East Shotwell Street, Bainbridge, GA 39817. Mrs. Dean was born March 19, 1917 in Bainbridge, GA, the daughter of Levi P. Harrell and Earle Brock Harrell. She graduated from Mt. Pleasant High School, was a retired nutritional consultant with the Decatur County Cooperative Extension Service of the University of Georgia and was a homemaker. Mrs. Dean was very active in her community and was a member of Prosperity Primitive Baptist Church. Survivors include her son, Lawrence Richard Dean and his wife, Leisa, of Vada, GA; her daughters, Cheryl K. Beard and her husband, Stephen, of Tempe, AZ and Cathy D. Wilson and her husband, Jerome, of Vada, GA; her brothers, Robert Harrell of Vada, GA and Marvin Harrell and his wife, Margie, of Bainbridge, GA; her eight grandchildren, Ric Dean and his wife, Dia, Carrie Dean, Carla Dean, Alia Beard Rau and her husband, Phil, Jeremy Beard and his wife, Gina, Mandy Wilson Simpson and her husband, James, Andrea Wilson Castleberry, and her husband, Joey, and Lance Wilson; and her eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, W. L. Dean.