A Warren County woman injured in an Interstate 20 wreck nearly two weeks ago has died from her injuries.

Jenilyn Hall, 79, 5543 Gibson Road, died Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, at Promise Hospital.

Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey attributed her death to head trauma resulting from the wreck.

Hall was injured Jan. 7 after driving her 1993 Buick Century the wrong way on I-20, entering the highway heading east in the westbound lane near Halls Ferry Road around 8 a.m. Attempting to turn around, she backed up and her vehicle was hit by an oncoming dump truck, police said. No charges were filed against the truck driver, and he and his passenger were not injured.

She hated driving on the interstate, her daughter, Diane Williams, said this morning. “She just made the wrong turn,” thinking she was on the frontage road, her daughter said.

“She was a very special lady,” son-in-law Leroy Williams said this morning. “She grew up in a different time, and she brought those values with her.”

Among them were frugality and economy, Williams said, but especially love of family.

“She loved her sisters, her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren,” he said.

She also loved her flowers, he said, and was widely known for the more than 100 day lilies she transplanted to her Warren County home nearly three years ago from the Magnolia home of her older sister, Camille Honea.

Hall had gardened for most of her life, and when Honea found herself unable to tend to the flowers she’d cultivated over years, Hall, with the help of her daughter and son-in-law, moved them to her Gibson Road driveway.

The beds were featured in a June 13, 2010, Vicksburg Post gardening column describing Hall’s “mission of love” to help save part of her sister’s treasure and as a reminder of the importance of family. Camille Honea died in July.

Hall was born in Amite County. She had served in the Air Force in the 1950s, receiving technical training at Lackland AFB in San Antonio. She had lived in Jackson and moved to Vicksburg about 40 years ago, working as a bookkeeper and continuing part time until her death.

She attended the Church of God.

In addition to her daughter and son-in-law, she leaves a son, Dan Hall, and his wife, Cathy, of Vicksburg, four grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and three sisters.

Funeral services, scheduled for Wednesday, are being handled by Glenwood Funeral Home.

The fatal wreck was the only one recorded in Warren County this year.