LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Shirley A. Alston, 51, who died Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014, will be held Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015 at 1 p.m. at Mitchiner's Grove Baptist Church in Franklinton, with Pastor Malvin Jackson officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

Surviving: daughters, Shwana Long and Christina Alston, both of the home; sisters, Amy Alston Arrington of Louisburg, Bobbie Jean Cosby of Richmond, Va., Jennifer Lawton and Lynisha Davis, both of Hopewell, Va.; brother, Robert N. Alston of Oxford; and one grandson.

Open visitation will be held Monday, Jan. 5, from 3 to 7 p.m. at Richardson Funeral Home in Louisburg.

In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations be made in her memory to the Mitchiner's Grove Church Building Fund.

Arrangements by Richardson Funeral Home, Louisburg.