Bernetta Joshua

CANNON BALL - Bernetta M. Joshua, 59, Cannon Ball, died Dec. 16, 2010, at Medcenter One, Bismarck. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, in the Youth Activity Center, Cannon Ball. Burial will be in St. Elizabeth's Catholic Cemetery, Cannon Ball.

Visitation is scheduled from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at Perry Funeral Home, Mandan, and continues with a Wake Service at 5 p.m. in the Youth Activity Center, Cannon Ball.

Bernetta was born Sept. 29, 1951, at Fort Yates, to Francis and Victoria (Conica) Joshua. She was raised and educated in Cannon Ball and attended school in Chamberlain, S.D., and Solen. She married Joe Brown Jr. in 1981 in Fort Totten. They were later divorced. Bernetta worked at St. Joseph's Beauty School, Bismarck; ITC School, Mandan, Diabetes Program, Fort Yates, and Verne Gibbs Clinic, Poplar, Mont. She enjoyed watching movies, going to church and singing gospel music, spending time with her children, grandchildren, friends and relatives. She was the song leader at the Full Gospel Church in Cannon Ball.

She is survived by her mother, Victoria Joshua; four daughters, Estelle Joshua, Fort Yates, and Morning Star Brown, Victoria Roubideaux and Helen Joshua, all of Cannon Ball; four sons, Bart (Justine) Joshua, Mandan, and Jerelle (Renita) Joshua, Duress Roubideaux and Gerald Roubideaux, all of Cannon Ball; five sisters, Helen (Cruz Vallejo) Joshua, Cannon Ball, Rita (Maynard Two Bears) Joshua, Bismarck, Doris (Marlon Lambert) Joshua, Fort Yates, Myra Joshua, Cannon Ball, and Lucy Two Bears, Bismarck; three brothers, Michael Joshua, Bismarck, and Noah Uses Arrow Jr. and Gerald Lester Sr., both of Cannon Ball; 14 grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; and longtime companion and friend, Floyd Eagle Boy.

Bernetta was preceded in death by her father; son, Roland Joshua; sister, Andrea Joshua; brothers, Mathew and Gerald Joshua; two granddaughters, Savanna Big Shield and RayAnne Joshua; and two uncles, Clifford Wise Spirit and George Fourth.