Jessie Beard

Funeral services for Jessie Waits Beard will be Tuesday October 21 2025 at 100 p.m. in the Big Cane Baptist Church with Rev. Stacy Morgan officiating. Burial will follow in the Big Cane Baptist Church Cemetery under the direction of Melancon Funeral Home. The family requests that visitation be obser...

was born on March 29 1948 in Jackson Tennessee to the late Jessie Beard and Annie Lee Beard. She accepted Christ at a young age at Denmark Baptist Church. In 1963 Willie Lou and her family moved to Indianapolis Indiana. Together they united with the Progressive Missionary Baptist Church where she sa...

Agnes Idella Dorothy Jones Owens was born on March 10 1922 to Eddie and Jessie Wilson Beard Jones. She was the first surviving child born to Eddie and Jessie. Being the oldest of Eddie and Jessies children Dorothy was considered a second mother to her younger siblings Samuel Jones Homer Jones Ollie ...

Mrs. Christine Beard was born Christine Green on August 30 1933 to the late Sam Green and the late Emma Perry Green Champion in Whiteville Tennessee. She attended Allen White for formal studies and later attended the Tennessee State Board of Education gaining her General Education Diploma. At an ear...