Barbara Joyce Crook, an employee of the Prichard Housing Authority, died Friday. She was 50.

A native of Clarke County, she was a resident of Mobile and a member of Cedar Street Missionary Baptist Church.

Survivors include three sons, William "Billy" Crook, Phillip Smith and Skylar Smith; her mother, Ethel Powell; her father, the Rev. I.T. McKinney; two sisters, Brenda Walker and Gesina Givance; and four brothers, Jesse Dawson, Elbert Powell, Albert Martin and Charles Campbell, all of Mobile; and one granddaughter.

Viewing will be from 1 to 8 p.m. Friday at Small's Mortuary on South Broad Street. Viewing will also be Saturday from 9 a.m. until the 11 a.m. funeral at Cedar Street Missionary Baptist Church in the Blackjack community in Saraland. Burial will be in Bailey Cemetery in Saraland.

Reprint from Mobile Press Register, March 13, 2008