Services for Hazel Tarver Ford, 75, of Zavalla, will be held in the Oakley-Metcalf Funeral Home Chapel at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, February, 6, 2021. Interment will follow in the Broaddus Cemetery in Broaddus, Texas.
Hazel was born April 12, 1945 in San Augustine, Texas to the late Gladys (Williams) and Albert Tarver. She passed away Monday, February, 1, 2021 in a Galveston hospital.
She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She loved spending time with her family. She also loved gambling, cooking and travelling. She was a member of the Pentecostal Church of God.
Survivors include her daughter, Marilyn Smithhart and husband James of Nacogdoches; sons, Gary W. Crawford of Zavalla, Randy Crawford and wife Jana of Zavalla, 7 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren; brother, James Tarver of Huntington; sisters, Marine Haag of Hudson, and Francis Bone of Nacogdoches. She is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husbands, Walter Crawford, Earl Kessler, and Donald Ford.
Pallbearers will be her family.
The family will receive friends from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Friday evening, February 5, 2021 at Oakley-Metcalf Funeral Home.
Services are in the care of Oakley-Metcalf Funeral Home.