Daisy Lee Jones Sykes

1939 - 2025

God in His infinite wisdom, late on Friday, December 26, 2025, called home the beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, auntie, cousin, and friend, Daisy Lee Jones Sykes was born on January 2, 1939, to the late Percy Lee Jones and Mattie Jane Cargill Jones in Yale, Virginia.  

Daisy attended the Sussex County Public School System.  She was baptized at an early age at New Hope Baptist Church under the leadership of Reverend Kaiser.  Daisy was raised on the farm and later relocated to Petersburg, Virginia. She began working for the MacMillan family, that is where she met and married the love of her life for 67 years.

In later years, Daisy joined Good Shepherd Baptist Church, under the leadership of Reverend Thomas. Upon moving to Chesterfield, she united with the Union Grove Baptist Church, where she served on the following ministries: the Golden Circle, Women’s Ministry, Health Ministry, Missionary Ministry and the Hospitality Ministry.

Daisy also had a passion for bowling. She was an avid bowler at “Walnut Hill Lanes” in Petersburg, Virginia. She also enjoyed traveling with friends outside of Petersburg to bowl in various tournaments.

Daisy was a life member of VFW-Hopewell, Virginia. She was employed at Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, the City of Petersburg Public School System Transportation – Bus Driver and the City of Petersburg Transit where she later retired after 20 years of service.

She was preceded in death by her grandsons, Carlos Sykes, Wesley Sykes and Walter Sykes III; great granddaughter, Harmony Coleman-Jackson, sisters, Martha Hardy and Queen E. Jones Parham; brother, Percy Leroy Jones; and son-in-law, Raymond Coleman, Sr..

Left to cherish her memories: her husband of 67 years, Walter Rudolph Sykes, Sr.; four children, Walter Sykes, Jr., Rolanda Kay Sykes, Vincent Urban Sykes, Sr., (Arlean) and Deborah Sykes-Coleman; grandson, Vincent Urban Sykes, Jr. (Anita) whom her and her  husband raised as their own; grandchildren, Tawana, Kendra, Kadarra, Keosha, SSGT Raymond Coleman, Jr. (Kimberly), Alyssa and Kenya Coleman, and NaKeisha Wilson; thirty-five great grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren; sisters, Rebecca “Beck” Mason of Petersburg, Virginia, Hattie Lofton (Glenn) of Smithfield, North Carolina, and Hazel L. Ebron of Silver Springs, Maryland; brother, John W. Jones (Mary) of Fayetteville, North Carolina; brothers-in-law, Stanley L. Sykes of Richmond, Virginia; sister-in-law, Esther Sykes of Petersburg, Virginia; three aunts, Russell Mae White, Emily Stith, and Annie Ivory; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.

Services will be held 1:00 P.M., Friday, January 2, 2026, at Community Independent Methodist Church, 12033 River Road, Chesterfield, VA, the Rev. Pate Pearson, Pastor, officiant and Rev. Dr. William E. Johnson III, eulogist. The interment to follow at Dinwiddie Memorial Park.

J. M. Wilkerson Funeral Establishment, Inc., 102 South Avenue, Petersburg, VA, (804) 732-8911, www.jmwilkersonsince1874.com. Watch the funeral services on our J. M. Wilkerson Funeral Establishment, Inc. Facebook page or click here to view: https://vimeo.com/event/5624356?fl=so&fe=fs