Rebecca Herring

Published 11:22 am Thursday, June 30, 2011

EDWARDS — Services for Rebecca Herring will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Mark M.B. Church in Edwards with the Rev. Jerry Collier officiating. Burial will follow at Greenhill Cemetery in Edwards. Visitation will be from noon until 7 p.m. Friday at Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home.

Mrs. Herring died Saturday, June 25, 2011, at her home in Edwards. She was 102.

She was a homemaker and a member of St. Mark M.B. Church.

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She was preceded in death by her husband, Thaddeus Herring Sr.; four brothers, Roger Thompson, Harvey Thompson, George Thompson and John D. Thompson; and five sisters, Elizabeth Thompson, Anna Thompson, Sarah Thompson, Eva Thompson and Emma Thompson.

Survivors include four sons, Thaddeus Herring Jr. of Raymond, Curtis Herring of Edwards, H.P. Herring of Perris, Calif., and Willie James Herring of Moreno Valley, Calif.; two daughters, Thelma Spears and Catherine Herring, both of Los Angeles; two sisters, Lucresia Beecham and Thelma Little, both of Edwards; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.