La’Nyia Jackson

Published 10:54 am Thursday, January 9, 2025

Funeral services were held Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, at Ruby K. Johnson Chapel for La’Nyia Heavenly Grace Jackson, 7, who died Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024, at Rockcastle Regional Hospital in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky. 

Rev. Ronnie Mackabee officiated with interment following in Griffith Cemetery in Prentiss. 

Johnson Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

La’Nyia Heavenly Grace Jackson was born on Oct. 6, 2017, to DeByron Jackson and Leneka Harris at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg. 

She attended Rockcastle County School in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky. 

She was preceded in death by her maternal grandfather, Melvin Ray Harris; maternal uncle, Kendall James Hunter.

She is survived by her mother, Leneka Harris; father, DeByron Jackson; paternal grandparents, Gary and Katie Jackson; maternal grandmother, Tysha (Elliot) Hunter-Armstrong; two sisters, Katelynn and Alexis; two brothers, DeByron and Jamir; uncles, Larundons (Candace) Jackson; Dontez Hooker and Dantrell Hunter; aunt, Linda (Kennis) Washington and many other relatives and friends.