Berrien-Worth County GaArchives Obituaries.....DeCosta, Vernell Johnson Jenkins November 8, 2009 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Shirley McMillan Durden http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006039 August 27, 2015, 5:34 pm The Berrien Press - November 18, 2009 Vernell Jenkins DeCosta, 79, of Leesburg, formerly of Nashville, died Nov. 8, 20 2009. A native of Coffee Springs, AL, she had resided in Leesburg since July of 2 2009, moving from Nashville. She was a homemaker and a server at Merry Acres R Restaurant for many years, a member of Kirkland United Methodist Church in P Pearson and attended Central Baptist Church in Albany. She was preceded in d death by her husband, Norman L. DeCosta, and a grandson, Kenneth Dale Moore. Survivors include two daughters, Jenny Howard and husband, Dale of Doles, and Kathy Swain of Leesburg; two sons, Steve Jenkins and wife, Virginia, of Blue Ridge, Kenny Jenkins and wife, Anna, of Zephyrhills, FL; ten grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren; brother, Huey Johnson of Dothan, AL. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Nov. 11 at Mathews Funeral Home with the Re Rev. John Jacobs officiating. Interment was in Providence Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Worth County. Mathews Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/berrien/obits/d/decosta4388nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb