Lauresa is preceded in death by her father, Willie Louis Moore; her step-father, Willie Clark Jr.; her twin sons, Felix and Frederick Mitchell; and two brothers, Walter James Peterson and Larry Clark. Lauresa leaves to cherish her loving memories, her mother, Lizzie Clark; Thomas E. Jones, father to her children and stepchildren; and six children, Avery Bell of Los Angeles, CA, Broderick Bell of Greensboro, NC, Tara Bell Hopkins (Clyde) of Starkville, MS, Heather Mitchell- Weaver (Kenyatta) of Norwalk, CA , Heath Mitchell of Los Angeles, CA, and Thomas Jones III of Long Beach, CA.