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Services for Maliyah and Malaka Jones Set for Friday

The Solon mother and daughter were killed in traffic crash April 18

The wake and funeral services for Solon's Malaka and Maliyah Jones are set for Friday.

The wake for Malaka Jones, 38, and her daughter, Maliyah Jones, 11, will begin at 10 a.m. Friday followed by 10:30 a.m. funeral services at Mt. Zion Church of Oakwood Village, 1 Mt. Zion Circle, Oakwood.

Arrangements are by Gaines Funeral Home of Cleveland.

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 The Solon mother and daughter, along with traveling companion Sherita Hogans, 29, of Cleveland, were in a traffic accident on the Interstate 77 bridge between Marietta, OH, and Williamstown, WV.

Malaka Jones, whose maiden name was Stephens, graduated from the Cleveland School for the Arts in 1991.

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Maliyah Jones was a fifth-grader at .

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