VIDALIA — Services for JoAnn Strode Chafton, 70, of Vidalia, who died Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, at her residence, were Sunday at Crosspoint Church.

Burial followed at Greenlawn Cemetery under the director on Marshall Funeral Home.

Mrs. Chafton was born Aug. 23, 1941, in New Orleans, the daughter of John Strode and Marion Marie Hayden.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, James Chafton; and one sister, Marion Hay.

Survivors include her three daughters, Joyce Reeves and husband, Edward “Pedro,” Nora Halford and husband, Kenny Wayne, and Deborah Corkern; one son, John Aubrey Chafton and wife, Tammy; one sister, Susan Rhodes; one brother, Robert Painter; 10 grandchildren, Kimberly Labas, Rachel Reeves, Leigh Ann Chafton, James Kenny, Joseph Kenny, Ashley Spruell, Eva Corkern, Joel Shiers, Amber Shiers and Randy Chafton; two great-grandchildren, John Burton Labas II and Thomas Henry Labas; a faithful friend, Sharon Gordon; and a number of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.