The family of a Suffolk woman who died in an auto accident in Georgia last week is raising money to help pay for bringing her back to Virginia and burying her.

Precious Pearson, 21, was killed Thursday around 8 a.m. when her car was hit by a tractor-trailer. Local news reports suggested her car drifted into another lane and said she was on her way home after working the overnight shift as a waitress at Waffle House. Authorities believed she may have fallen asleep at the wheel.

Her mother, Linda Pearson, said Precious would do anything for her son, 3-year-old Isaac. She was working hard to provide for him, she said.

“She’s only been down there for a few months,” Pearson said. “She got a job and was working. She was just trying to save money and take care of her son.”

Pearson said her daughter was hoping to go back to school, perhaps to go into a field involving children.

“She was a great mom,” Pearson said. “She loved her son. That child didn’t want for nothing. If she could get it, she got it.”

When she wasn’t working, Pearson said, her daughter would take Isaac to the park, ride bicycles with him or treat him to a visit to Chuck E. Cheese.

“She always spent time with him,” she said. “She spent as much time with him as she could.”

She described her daughter as quiet around new people but increasingly gregarious as she got to know them.

“If you asked for her opinion, she’d give it to you,” Pearson said. “She’d tell you how she felt. She didn’t hold nothing back.”

Because her daughter was so young, she had no life insurance, Pearson said. The cost to transport the body back to Virginia compounds the hardship, as does the illness of Precious’ grandfather, who is in hospice care.

But people have been generous, Pearson said. Her daughter’s co-workers at Waffle House collected $700. A GoFundMe account is up to about $1,900.

Pearson said any money collected beyond what is needed for the funeral will be used to start a savings account for Isaac.

To contribute to the family, visit www.gofundme.com/q3ucb4.