Funeral services will be this week for a young mother from Mooresville who died from complications believed related to the H1N1 flu virus.

Jamie Marie Blackwell Loveless, 27, died Thursday in a hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., where she had been vacationing with family members.

The mother of a 9-month-old son, she died within a week of becoming ill with a minor cough that family members said didn’t seem serious.

Her husband, Chris Loveless, said today that tests after she died confirmed the H1N1 virus.

The Lovelesses bought a home two months ago near Nashville, Tenn.

And they had been in the Indianapolis area about two weeks ago visiting relatives before leaving for Florida.

Chris Loveless said several relatives previously had been ill and were treated for the flu.

After they reached Florida, he said his wife had a mild fever and cough for a couple days but recovered and felt fine for several days.

However, the fever and cough returned Oct. 24, and hospital tests showed that Jamie Blackwell Loveless had pneumonia. Doctors admitted her for a day or two.

Her condition deteriorated over several days with her lungs, liver, kidneys and finally her heart failing, and she died in intensive care at 2:30 a.m. Thursday.

“I want the message to get out that people should take H1N1 seriously. We never thought she was that sick until the day she died,” Chris Loveless said of his wife. “She was healthy. She ate right and worked out.

“This could happen to anyone. This is going around, and I don’t think some people are taking it as seriously as they should. They think it is just a scare like Y2K, but this is serious. Jamie would want to get that word out.”

Loveless said his brother became ill and was hospitalized, too, but recovered.

The family was concerned that the Loveless’s son, Gavin, was ill, but medical tests confirmed he was fine.

Chris and Jamie were high school sweethearts, both graduating from Mooresville High School in 2000.

He works for a payroll-processing company; she had been a computer software sales representative.

Over the week before she died, their story triggered an outpouring on the Internet and on social Web sites, including Facebook.com, from hundreds of school classmates, friends and even strangers contributing money to help with medical expenses.

More information is online at www.jonesfamilymortuary.com and on Facebook page created by the friends of Jamie Blackwell Loveless and the family’s Web site: http://thelovelessfamily.weebly....>

Jamie Blackwell Loveless graduated in 2004 from Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Calling will be from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the conference center at the Jones Family Mortuary, at Allison Road and Ind. 67, north of Mooresville.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Jones.