Mrs. Juanita Chaney's Obituary
On November 20, 1928, Mrs. Juanita Roberts Chaney was born to the late John Wesley Roberts and the late Phenola Wooten in Neshia County, MS. At an early age, Mrs. Chaney attended and graduate from dietician school. After graduation, Mrs. Chaney worked various jobs to help support her family. Later in life she retired and became a stay-home mother and grandmother.
Mrs. Chaney was a loving and devoted wife, mother, step-mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great great grandmother, sister-in-law, friend and neighborhood mother. She was truly a genuine and unique woman with much wisdom and encouraging words for her family, friends and especially people she met for the first time that she could help in any way. She was very blessed to have lived and seen her sixth generation before her home going.
As a mother and grandmother, she had a passion and enjoyed teaching her hobbies which were fishing, sewing, quilting, cooking, singing gospel, reading the Bible, gardening and working her flower bed to all of us with smiles and laughter. She had a passion for extending her home, warmth and love to anyone and everyone who came to know her. She was a very dedicated worker in the community and would volunteer her children if she saw something needed to be done to help others.
Mother came to know and accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior at an early age at Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church in Shucktown, MS. She later rededicated her life as a Christian and became a member of New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church in Meridian, MS, where she was a faithful and dedicated member until her health failed.
At the age of 88 years old, Mrs. Juanita Chaney departed her life at her residence on Sunday, July 23, 2017. She leaves her loving memories her children: Ruby Gordon Rush, John Lewis, Billy Lewis, Patricia (Bobby) Newell, Rose (Charles) Griffin, Barry Burge, Torie Granger (Warvell Moore), Latrice Chaney (James Barnes), all of Meridian, MS; James Lewis, Racine, WI; Casey Burge of Alpharetta, GA; Demetri (Eutika) Chaney, Anita Harris (Will) and Tensia Chaney Hill (Calvin), all of Tupelo, MS; Brenda Chaney, Linda Hearn, Earline Chaney, Lisa (Chester) Alford, Betty Easley, J.D. (Ada) Doss, Henry Earl Lewis, all of Meridian, MS; Freddie Carl (Cynthia) Chaney of Key West, FL; siblings: Lillie Floyd, Johnny Davis, Jeanette Davis, Hattie Mae Holton, Betty Jean Davis, all of Milwaukee, WI; Ella (Charles) Goodwin, Verdie Bell Davis and John Davis, all of Meridian, MS; four sisters-in-law: Mary Wooten Bradford of Nashville, TN; Mattie Pringle of Meridian, MS, Daisy Dean of Buffalo, NY, Mary Jackson of Laurel, MS and one brother-in-law, Joe Chaney of Buffalo, NY; one hundred forty-eight (148) grandchildren, ninety-one(91) great-grandchildren, thirty-four (34) great-great grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Chaney was preceded in death by her husband, Bennie C.Chaney, her oldest daughter, Ruth Carol Yarbrough, her father John Wesley Roberts, her mother, Phenola Wooten McWilliams, her brother, Will Wooten and her grandparents, Frank and Pearl Wooten and six grand children.
Special thanks and gratitude to Warvell Moore “aka” DeeDee for the care he helped to provide for our mother. We also want to thank Hospice Compassus and nurse Marla and Teresa for taking care of our mother during her illness.
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