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Submitted: 3/13/21 • Approved: 4/21/21 • Last Updated: 4/24/21 • R1366308-G1366308-S3
Bertha Rhoades Whitesell
January 22, 1942 - August 23, 2018
Section: 9 Veterans
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Mountain Home, Arkansas - A Memorial Service for Bertha Nell Whitesell of Mountain Home, Arkansas, will be 2:00 pm, Monday, August 27, 2018, at Kirby & Family Funeral Home, with Brother Richard Crawford officiating.
Bertha passed away August 23, 2018, in Mountain Home, Arkansas at the age of 76. She was born January 22, 1942, in Calico Rock, Arkansas, the daughter of Ted and Alfredda Combs Rhoades. She married James Whitesell on January 11, 1968, in Kansas City, Missouri and worked as an Administrative Assistant for the Department of the Army. Bertha lived in Mountain Home since moving from Bealeton, Virginia, in 2004. She was a member of the East Side Baptist Church and was active in the American Legion Post #52 Auxiliary and Baxter County Master Gardeners. She enjoyed sewing, gardening, cooking, and canning.
Bertha is survived by her husband, James Whitesell of Mountain Home, AR; mother, Alfredda Rhoades of Mountain Home, AR; son, Jesse Brown, III of Big Bear Lake, CA; granddaughter, Alexandra L Brown of GA, and brother, John (Erna) Rhoades of Independence, MO.
She was preceded in death by her father; two brothers, Dale Rhoades and Tom Rhoades, and sister, Shirley Jean Dykstra.
Interment will be in the Kirby's Tucker Memorial Cemetery, Mountain Home, Arkansas.
Memorials may be made to American Legion Post #52 or East Side Baptist Church.
Arrangements are by Kirby and Family Funeral and Cremation Services - Mountain Home, Arkansas.
Contributed on 3/13/21 by ashaw444
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