Berniece Jasper Obituary, Ashley County, Arkansas

***********************************************************
Submitted by: Larry White
        Date: 2001
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/ashley/ashley.htm
***********************************************************

Funeral services for Berniece Jasper, 66, of  Crossett were held Monday, August 11, at 1
p.m. at New Bethel Baptist Church with the Rev. Steven Conley officiating.  Burial was at
Westview Cemetery under the direction of Jones Funeral Home of Crossett.

Mrs. Jasper died Tuesday, August 5, at her residence.

She was a homemaker and a member of the Crossett Area Chamber of Commerce, the Black
History Association, served in the local hospice program as a volunteer and was a member
of Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church.

Survivors include nine sons, Glendell Moore, Bobby Jasper, Ramond Canley and Nathaniel
Jasper, all of Crossett, James Jasper of Pacoima, Calif., Robert Jasper of Dover, Del.,
Napoleon Jasper of Washington, Richard Jasper and Sammie Jasper, both of St. Louis; seven
daughters, Earnestine Riley of Chicago, Ill., Sandra Birdner, Patricia Lindsey, Jackie
Woodberry, and Helen Brown, all of Crossett, Carolyn Fisher of Norfolk, VA, Michelle
Jasper of Little Rock; mother, Mattie Moore of Pacoima, Calif.; three brothers, Rev. James
Jasper Jr. of Wichita, Kan. and Charles Moore and Richard Weekly, both of Crossett; three
sisters, Rose Marie Jacobs of Lancaster, Calif., Dorothy Jean Burwell of Lakeview Terrace,
Calif. and Betty Jean Hendrix of Pacoima, Calif.; 48 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren
and 21 great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Rev. P. J. Jasper, a son, Charles Edward Jasper
and a sister, Dorothy Nell Moore.  

Pallbearers were Alvin Henderson, Perry Handley, Gary Hollins, Perry Johnson, Leroy
Lindsey, Frank Campbell, Edward Brown and Dewayne Hollins. Honorary pallmearers were
Glendell Moore, Raymond coley, Undra Stanley, James Jasper, Napoleon Brown, Corey Lindsey,
Gerald Brown, Ray Birdman, Patrick Fisher, Byron Jasper and Bobby Jasper.