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Bertha Jones Obituary
Mrs. Bertha Massie Jones departed this life Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010, at her residence, 512 E. Monitor Road, Amherst. She was born Sept. 23, 1923, to the late Walter and Mable Massie.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Eldridge Jones; one son, James Jones Sr.; grandson, Robert Reid; two brothers, David and James Massie; and sister, Nellie Pettyjohn.
Bertha is survived by one son, Mack Jones (Mary Helen); one daughter, Mable Jordan (James); 10 grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren; seven great-great grandchildren; one sister, Corrine Sales; one brother-in-law, Loyd Pettyjohn; and a host of other relatives and friends.
A funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 15, 2010, at Piney Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. Charles Lewis eulogist. Interment will be in the Christian Aid Cemetery. Her remains will in state at the church one hour prior to the service. The family is receiving friends and the cortege will assemble at 512 E. Monitor Road.
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Higginbotham Family
October 14, 2010
Our thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.
Trudy Washington and Family
October 14, 2010
Music, when soft voices die
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory—
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Poetry Foundation
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