Celebrating the life of Jhaquanna Lateefah Ford
Sunrise April 2, 1986
Sunset April 27, 2022
Jhaquanna Lateefah Ford was born April 2, 1986, in Fulton County Georgia to the late Truly Mae Montgomery Sparks Montrez N. Ford (Tyrone Sparks)
She was raised in Decatur Georgia and spent most of her life in Paulding County Georgia. She attended and graduated from Paulding County High School in 2004.
“Goodbyes are not forever; Goodbyes are not the end. They simply mean i'll miss you until we meet again.”
Jhaquanna Lateefah Ford was a loving and devoted mother and leaves to cherish In her memory: her 5 children, Breshanna Cousin, Shynise Cousin, Zikiyan Ramsey, Zaria Godbee, and Darius Godbee. Her two sisters Keeva Montgomery and Joi Ford, uncles, aunties, nephews, and other relatives and friends.
Poem:
Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened.
Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, and you are you,
and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just around the corner.
All is well.
Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!