SORRELLS, BERNIECE ELIZABETH (OBIT) - Pulaski County, Arkansas | BERNIECE ELIZABETH (OBIT) SORRELLS - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

Berniece Elizabeth (obit) SORRELLS

Chapel Hill Memorial Park Cemetery
Pulaski County,
Arkansas

Leon
May 8, 1914 - Nov 10, 2006
Berniece E
May 15, 1917 - Mar 31, 2011

Berniece Elizabeth Ashcraft Sorrells
*Obit takend from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Published: April 2, 2011


Berniece Elizabeth Ashcraft Sorrells, of Jacksonville passed away March 31, 2011 at the age of 93. She was born in Philadelphia, Grant County Arkansas on May 15th 1917 to Rev. J. T. Ashcraft and Ida Reynolds Ashcraft. She grew up in Sheridan and graduated from Sheridan High School in 1935.

She is predeceased by her parents; her brothers, Dewey, Lee, Theo and Ottis; her sisters, Gladys Crimm and Elsie Berry and her husband of 68 years Leon Sorrells. She is survived by two daughters, Kay Smart and Lee Kipp, of Jacksonville; four grandchildren, Karen Hall and her husband, William of Greenbrier, Kathy Smart of Little Mountain, South Carolina, Kay Lynn Harris of Orlando, Florida, and Brent Kipp of Buda, Texas; six great grandchildren, Katie and Ginnie Hall, Ernie, Brad and Noel Harris and Ivan Kipp; sister-in-law, Martha Atkins of Camden.

Mrs. Sorrells was retired from Citizen's National Bank of Jacksonville where she was the drive up window teller for many years. She also served as bailiff in the Jacksonville Municipal court when her husband was Court Clerk. She loved to read and was a frequent patron of the Nixon Library in Jacksonville until she was no longer able to drive herself there. She was a self-taught musician and even though she never learned to read music she could play anything from hymns to boogie-woogie on the piano. She was a loving wife, mother and momma. The family would like to thank the staff of Woodland Hills Nursing and Rehab Center in Jacksonville for their care and for being her family when her family could not be with her.

Services will be Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 2 p.m. at Landmark Baptist Church in Jacksonville where she had been a member since the early 1950s. Bro. Tim Carter will officiate. Interment will follow at Chapel Hill Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m., Saturday, April 2, 2011 at Moore's Jacksonville Funeral Home. Please sign online guest register at www.mooresjacksonvillefuneralhome.com. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Moore's Jacksonville Funeral Home. (501) 982-2136.

Contributed on 9/6/12 by eagle12953
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Submitted: 9/6/12 • Approved: 9/7/12 • Last Updated: 3/28/14 • R753047-G244443-S3

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