One week after she died in the crossfire of a mass shooting in Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom, Genesis Tamar Jones was memorialized as the mbodiment of love, with speakers at her funeral service encouraging the hundreds of attendees to “love like Genesis did.”
“She understood that how you present yourself to the world matters,” Loretta Massey, her grandmother, said during the Feb. 28 service at Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Petersburg Massey noted how Jones always “carried herself with grace and confidence,” and always had her nails “perfectly” manicured.
“Yet, her beauty was never just on the inside,” her grandmother continued. “Genesis was nurturing at home. She looked out for her brothers, making sure they act responsibly, reminded them of who they were and what they were capable of doing. That was just who she was.”…