December 21, 83, Mount Olive
Mrs. Bertha Lee Jones Sanderson, 83, of the Alum Springs area, Mount Olive, passed away Saturday morning, December 21, 2019. She was a member of Long Ridge Free Will Baptist Church where she sang in the choir.
Funeral services will be Thursday, December 26, at 2 p.m. at Tyndall Funeral Home, officiated by the Rev. Kelvin Coates and Elder Wesley Houston. Burial will follow in the Pate Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home during the hour before the service. Flowers are welcome, or memorial gifts may be made to Long Ridge Church, c/o Karen Arnette, 1370 Tram Road, Mount Olive, NC
Mrs. Sanderson is survived by her daughters, Shelia Herring and husband, Terry, and Pam Sanderson; two grandchildren, Milton “Runt” Herring and wife, Jessica, and Crystal Sanderson; great-grandchildren, Chase Sanderson, Mallory and Madison Herring, all of the Alum Springs area; four sisters, Pearl Houston and husband, Wesley, of Beulaville, Jean Lee and husband, Carroll, of Kenansville, Lois Potter and husband, Jackie, of Magnolia, and Margaret Whitman of Fredericksburg, Va.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Stanley Milton “Terrapin” Sanderson; her parents, David Franklin Jones and Clarsia Ann Brock Jones; and siblings, David “D.F.” Jones, Ruth Orfield, Naomi Howard, Joyce Hinson, Dennis Jones, Fannie Oliver, and Joseph Jones.