Joann Ledbetter, age 72 of Ace, Texas, passed away on February 13, 2013, at Memorial Medical Center Hospital in Lufkin, Texas. She was born on January 26, 1941, in Phoenix, Arizona to parents, Joseph Jacobus and Viola Boytston Jacobus. Joann married Lawrence Wayne Ledbetter on September 2, 1961, in Phoenix, Arizona. She was a member of Rainbow Baptist Church in Rye, Texas.

Joann is preceded in death by her parents and sister, Marjorie Billings. She is survived by husband, Lanny Ledbetter of Ace, Texas; daughter, Joy Lynn Houser of Hay Springs, Nebraska; two sons, Michael Wayne Ledbetter of Phoenix, Arizona, and Jonathan Glenn Ledbetter of Wallace, Nebraska; grandchildren, Jennifer Shea, Carmen Barth, Cassandra Barth, Jonathan Houser, Jordan Houser, Jacob Ledbetter, Joseph Ledbetter and Sebastian Ledbetter; and three great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, February 19, 2013, at Rainbow Baptist Church in Rye, Texas. Rev. Clyde Somers will officiate the service. Interment will be held at Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery in Phoenix, Arizona.

Instead of flowers, donations can be made to Eagle Nest Ministries or

First National Bank Benefit Account # 2349191.

Cochran Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

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