PURVIS, Miss. (WDAM) – Anna Crochet’s family wants her to be remembered as a loving mother who always had a smile on her face and always made a way.

“I’m really going to miss her,” said her mother, Wendy Boudreaux.

Anna was shot by her son’s father Monday afternoon in front of a clinic in Purvis.

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Now, her family is sharing some of their earliest memories of the 23-year-old.

“ I’d catch her all the time with birthday parties and stuff,” Boudreaux said. “I’d go in my kitchen. She’d have her hand in the ice cream, eating the ice cream, eating the cake.”

Laura Crochet, Anna’s sister, says even her last memory of Anna makes her laugh.

“I said, ‘Girl, I don’t work there no more,’” Crochet said. “She was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I forgot. Dang, I‘m going to miss coming to see you after work. I’m going to miss coming to get some free food.’ That was the last time I ever talked to her.“

Family says Crochet had an undeniably bright spirit and bright blue eyes to match.

Just one day after the young mother was killed, Anna’s family says her one-year-old son, Mason, was her pride and joy.

He was in the car when his father fired the first shots.

“We’re going to make sure her baby is taken care of, that’s for sure. He’s going to be taken care of,” Boudreaux said.

Anna had recently had a kidney transplant after experiencing kidney failure during her pregnancy.

Despite that challenge and years of living states apart, Anna’s cousins say they always knew what to expect when they saw her: a smile.

“Anytime she was at our house, she was just so beautiful,” Claire Bergeron, Anna’s cousin, said. “She was always happy, and it was really hard seeing that, knowing what she was going through.”

Abby Bergeron, Claire’s sister and Anna’s cousin, was the last family member to see Anna alive. She says this interaction was just minutes before the shooting, and shortly after an altercation with the suspect.

Even then, Anna smiled.

“You could tell that she was crying, but that was all gone,” Bergeron said. “Like, the second that I brought it to her, she just came up to me, and she was saying how grateful she was. She was holding Mason, letting me see him, and it was refreshing, because I was thinking, ‘You just went through all of this, and you’re smiling.’”

Right now, Anna’s sister is asking for peace and understanding as her family prepares to bury her older sister.

“I don’t need to look on my sister’s last Facebook post and see someone we don’t even know commenting ugly things about the situation,” Crochet said. “We don’t need that. It’s very unnecessary.”

Anna’s family has set up a GoFundMe to pay for the funeral and support her son. To donate, click HERE.

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