Mrs. Phyllis Annette Jones Suggs

Mrs. Phyllis Annette Jones Suggs departed this life on May 24, 2025. She was the only child of Sherman and Magnolia Reeves Jones. As a minister's daughter, she resided in many cities across the country, including Helena, AR, Cairo, IL, Grand Rapids, MI and Forrest City, AR. She accepted Christ and was baptized at Salem MB Church in 1965. Phyllis was a gifted vocalist and pianist and often used her talents in the music ministry of several churches throughout the years. She was a proud graduate of the Forrest City High School Class of 1974.
Phyllis had lifelong friends who were drawn to her fun-loving and often mischievous nature. She married William Suggs in 1997. Phyllis was employed at the St. Francis County Sheriff's Department until 2018 when her health began to fail.
Phyllis opened her heart and home to three boys, Alan, Amari, and Alex. She fought to get and keep them. She accomplished her goal of loving them through a crucial time in their lives. In the end, she trusted God to take them the rest of the way.
Phyllis is preceded in death by her parents, Sherman Jones and Magnolia Jones Lockhart and an infant son, Phillip Jerome Jones.
Left to cherish her memory are sons, Alan, Amari and Alex Suggs of Forrest City, AR. Four stepbrothers, John Lockhart Jr. of Columbus, GA, Jimmie Lockhart of Camden, AR, Donald (Pamela) Lockhart of Decatur, GA and Kenneth Lockhart of Arlington, TX. Cousins, Betty Ann Culley of Forrest City, AR, Dianne (James) Butler of N. Little Rock, AR, Pamela (Leroyce) Cook of Florissant, MO, Craig (Barbara) Walls of Wichita, KS, Michael (Lurlean) Walls of Sachse, TX, Barbara (Chris) Jackson of Marion, AR and a host of relatives and friends. She will be missed by those that knew and loved her.