Funeral services for Bertha Berryman McDaniel will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday, February 21, 2009 at Hwy 96 Church of Christ in Jasper, with burial to follow at Yellowpine Cemetery in South Hemphill. Bertha died Feb. 18, 2009 at Providence Park in Tyler. Formerly of Pineland, she was the last of 13 children and a native of Yellowpine. A longtime Jasper resident, she was a natural born piano player and played by ear. A great storyteller, Bertha was famous for her jokes. She was a writer of memoirs and other childhood memories. Survivors include numerous nieces & nephews, including Don Kenneth Berryman of Pineland and Buddy Berryman of Kirbyville. Bertha was preceded in death by her husband of over 60 years, Thornton W. McDaniel and 11 nieces & nephews, including nieces Marguerite Brussa & Violet Walker.
The following was written by Ber Ber and printed in her funeral memorial.
"In looking back on my growing-up years, everything was not good--it was not good when my sister, Annie, lost the sight in her eye, and it was not good when my brother, Fred, was left half dead from scarlet fever. It was not good when we had smallpox and measles and typhoid fever. Certainly it was not good when long dry spells ruined a crop and year of floods washed up the seed in springtime. But, given time, the rain broke the long drought and the sun dried the wet earth.
If we drank the "dregs from the bottom of the cup," we also drank the bubbles on top.
Shining through the years like the eternal flame, through good times and bad, was--and is--LOVE.
Life's evening sun is well on the western side for all of us, and for each of us it will soon go down. Looking back on this other time, this other world, I know it was a good life, and I wouldn't change it."
Ber Ber McDaniel
The following was written by Ber Ber and printed in her funeral memorial.
"In looking back on my growing-up years, everything was not good--it was not good when my sister, Annie, lost the sight in her eye, and it was not good when my brother, Fred, was left half dead from scarlet fever. It was not good when we had smallpox and measles and typhoid fever. Certainly it was not good when long dry spells ruined a crop and year of floods washed up the seed in springtime. But, given time, the rain broke the long drought and the sun dried the wet earth.
If we drank the "dregs from the bottom of the cup," we also drank the bubbles on top.
Shining through the years like the eternal flame, through good times and bad, was--and is--LOVE.
Life's evening sun is well on the western side for all of us, and for each of us it will soon go down. Looking back on this other time, this other world, I know it was a good life, and I wouldn't change it."
Ber Ber McDaniel
Funeral services for Bertha Berryman McDaniel will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday, February 21, 2009 at Hwy 96 Church of Christ in Jasper, with burial to follow at Yellowpine Cemetery in South Hemphill. Bertha died Feb. 18, 2009 at Providence Park in Tyler. Formerly of Pineland, she was the last of 13 children and a native of Yellowpine. A longtime Jasper resident, she was a natural born piano player and played by ear. A great storyteller, Bertha was famous for her jokes. She was a writer of memoirs and other childhood memories. Survivors include numerous nieces & nephews, including Don Kenneth Berryman of Pineland and Buddy Berryman of Kirbyville. Bertha was preceded in death by her husband of over 60 years, Thornton W. McDaniel and 11 nieces & nephews, including nieces Marguerite Brussa & Violet Walker.
The following was written by Ber Ber and printed in her funeral memorial.
"In looking back on my growing-up years, everything was not good--it was not good when my sister, Annie, lost the sight in her eye, and it was not good when my brother, Fred, was left half dead from scarlet fever. It was not good when we had smallpox and measles and typhoid fever. Certainly it was not good when long dry spells ruined a crop and year of floods washed up the seed in springtime. But, given time, the rain broke the long drought and the sun dried the wet earth.
If we drank the "dregs from the bottom of the cup," we also drank the bubbles on top.
Shining through the years like the eternal flame, through good times and bad, was--and is--LOVE.
Life's evening sun is well on the western side for all of us, and for each of us it will soon go down. Looking back on this other time, this other world, I know it was a good life, and I wouldn't change it."
Ber Ber McDaniel
The following was written by Ber Ber and printed in her funeral memorial.
"In looking back on my growing-up years, everything was not good--it was not good when my sister, Annie, lost the sight in her eye, and it was not good when my brother, Fred, was left half dead from scarlet fever. It was not good when we had smallpox and measles and typhoid fever. Certainly it was not good when long dry spells ruined a crop and year of floods washed up the seed in springtime. But, given time, the rain broke the long drought and the sun dried the wet earth.
If we drank the "dregs from the bottom of the cup," we also drank the bubbles on top.
Shining through the years like the eternal flame, through good times and bad, was--and is--LOVE.
Life's evening sun is well on the western side for all of us, and for each of us it will soon go down. Looking back on this other time, this other world, I know it was a good life, and I wouldn't change it."
Ber Ber McDaniel
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Married Feb. 25, 1926
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