Bernice Jones

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ELIZABETHTON – Bernice Jones Whitehead, 87, passed away on February 2, 2016, at Hillview Health Center.

She was born April 5, 1928 on Buck Mountain to the late Clarence H. Jones and Agnus Banner Jones. Bernice had a passion and talent for cooking, canning and sewing. She loved her family dearly and was the ultimate example of kindness and patience, always serving others.

She was a long time member of the Elizabethton Church of Christ.

Survivors include her children: Ronda Whitehead, Carolyn Perry (Norman) and Wade Whitehead (Ellen); her grandchildren, Susan Whitehead, Jim Crowe, Amy Jones, Jana Perkins, Jason Whitehead, Toby Smith, Jody Smith and Josh Whitehead; her great grandchildren, Brittnay Lawson, Brett Crowe, Beth Crowe, Hunter Jones, Tyler Perkins, Sydney Perkins, Madison Whitehead, Eli Whitehead, Abby Smith, Beau Smith, Dorothy Lane Smith, Shelby Whitehead, and Sadie Whitehead; her brother, Claude Jones (Dare).

In addition to her parents, Bernice was preceded in death by her husband, Floyd Whitehead; her daughters, Dorothy Smith and Sandra Wandell; a great-granddaughter, Sierra Waycaster; her sisters, Virginia Roberts and Dorothy Ruth Taylor; and a brother, Charlie Jones.

Services will be conducted on Sunday, February 7, 2016, in Memorial Funeral Chapel, Elizabethton, TN with the family receiving friends from 1:30 to 3 p.m. followed by the funeral service at 3 p.m. Mr. Roby Ellis will be the minister officiating. Burial will be at Mountain Home National Cemetery at 10 a.m. on Monday, February 8, 2016.

Family and friends will assemble at the funeral home at 9:15 a.m. on Monday to go to the cemetery. Active Pallbearers will be Grandsons and Great Grandsons.

Bernice married Floyd Whitehead on 26 Sep 1946 in Carter County, , , Tennessee. Floyd (son of John Whitehead and Omie Evelyn Johnson) was born on 20 Jul 1923 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; died on 23 Jan 1994 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Mountain Home National Cemetery, , Washington County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ronda Wayne Whitehead was born about 1948 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; died on 22 Sep 2017 in Washintgon County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Bennett Cemetery, , Carter County, Tennessee.
2. Wade Vaughn Whitehead was born about 1950 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; died on 5 Apr 2021 in Sullivan County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Bennett Cemetery, , Carter County, Tennessee.
3. Dorothy Whitehead was born about 1954 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; died about 2000 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Happy Valley Memorial Park, , Carter County, Tennessee.

Clarence married Agnus Banner about 1923. Agnus was born about 1903. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]