Leona Peacock Messer, age 86, of Dellwood, Florida, passed away on Friday, July 15, 2011 at Jackson Hospital. She was of the Baptist faith and attended Dellwood Baptist Church.

Leona was a native of Jackson County and grew up in the Rocky Creek community. In the early 50's she moved, with her family, to the West Palm Beach area in 1966 moved again to the Orlando area where she retired from Martin Marietta Air Craft.

At age 65 she obtained her realtor license and was a successful agent having created a special relationship with her senior clientele. In 2005 she returned home to Jackson County and settled in Dellwood at the Messer ancestral home place.

She was a homemaker and a devoted and loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She loved to work in her garden and would spend hours tending it and marveled at the miracle of watching a plant grow from a tiny seed or seeing a calf being born and was in awe of the beauty of the world around us. To her, this was the visual proof of God and his presence and she could not understand how others could not see it.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Louie J. Messer in 1980 and great grandson Dodge Haswell. Survivors include her sons, Albert Messer and wife Michele and Walter Messer and wife Lynda all of Marianna; grandchildren, Collin, Laura, Bobby and Caroline; great grandchildren, Grace, Cammie, Mac, Bryce, Aubrey, Caleb, Noah and Beau. She was the center of their world and they all revolved around her. She will be sorely missed.