As a girl, Lisa Simmons always loved fireworks. Three years ago, she went to work to share that joy with others when she got her license to coordinate fireworks displays.

Summer — and its Independence Day spectaculars — was her busy season, and she loved it.

"She died doing what she loved, and that's where we find our peace right now," said her sister, Weaver resident Ginger Bunn, who on Tuesday was making funeral arrangements for her older sister who was killed in a fireworks explosion in Ocracoke, N.C.

Simmons, who would have been 42 on Monday was one of four fireworks crew members killed July 4 when a truckload of fireworks exploded.

Bunn said investigators have told the family it might be several months until the cause of the explosion is determined.

Bunn, who runs Body Kneads massage therapy in Jacksonville, said she'd seen a clip on the news Saturday night about the explosion — one of several fireworks-related accidents around the country this July 4. It wasn't until Sunday morning that she learned her sister was on the crew from Melrose South Pyrotechnics out of Catawba, S.C.

A resident of Goldsboro, N.C., Simmons was a single mother, and her family right now is focusing on taking care of and providing for her 8-year-old son, A.J., Bunn said.

"That's our main concern right now," she said, adding that a trust has been set up at Wachovia Bank for Avery Jackson Simmons.

"She is loved and will be dearly missed."

Her funeral will be Friday at Brunswick Memorial Park in Brunswick, Ga. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. and services will begin at 2 p.m.