Andrea Danielle Beard

Published 11:00 am Friday, August 8, 2014

Andrea Danielle Beard died Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. She was 19.

Born in Jackson, she was a lifelong resident of Vicksburg. Andrea was a graduate of Warren Central High School in the Class of 2013. She was employed by Cutler’s Grow N Learn Daycare and Sunsational Tanning.  Andrea was loved by her family and many friends.  She was a member of the Baptist faith.

She is survived by her parents, Drew and Chastity Beard of Vicksburg; two brothers, Logan Beard and Hayden Beard of Vicksburg; paternal grandparents: Clyde and Cindy Roberson of Eagle Lake; paternal great-grandmothers, Gloria Allen of Vicksburg, and Mary Roberson of Eagle Lake; and two uncles, Patrick Roberson (Maria) of Vicksburg and Andrew L. Beard, Bartow, Fla.

She was predeceased by her paternal grandmother, Rory Roberson; maternal grandfather, Walter “Danny” Davis; and maternal grandmother, Constance Cummings.

Services were 11 a.m. today at Riles Funeral Home with the Rev. Greg Clemts, pastor of Southside Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn Gardens Cemetery. Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Pallbearers will be Logan Beard, Forrest Beard, Hayden Beard, Shelby Irons, Michael Whitley, Brian Davis and Josh Bass.

Honorary Pallbearers will be employees of Cutler’s Grow N Learn Day Care and Sunsational Tanning.