Areatha Toomer Beard Obituary
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Areatha Toomer Beard of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, who passed away on November 6, 2024, at the age of 89, leaving to mourn family and friends. Leave a sympathy message to the family on the memorial page of Areatha Toomer Beard to pay them a last tribute.
She was predeceased by: her parents, Ernest Toomer, Sr. and Earnestine McCraney-Toomer; her husband Chester C. Beard, Sr.; her son Calvin Lee Beard; her grandchildren, Kenneth Earl Johnson Jr. and Akikta Reyahn Knight; her great grandchildren, Moses Beard and Alzelica Beard; her great great grandchild Donovan Rae Reynolds; and her sisters, Margorie Beard, Doris Pipens, Parthenia Batts and Bertha Halford.
She is survived by: her nephew Lonnie Maddox, Jr.; her niece Susie Durden; her sons-in-law, Albert Roy Knight, Jr., Clyde Holland, Willie Bryant, Christopher Wesley, Kinnie Howard and Bro. Marvin Jackson; her children, Bernestine Knight of Arlington, Texas., Chester C. Beard Jr. of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. and Charles Beard of Pine Bluff, Arkansas.; her siblings, Toomer (Jackie) of Dallas, Pearlie Mae Sims of Pine Bluff and Carolyn Ann Toomer of Atlanta, Georgia.; her grandchildren, Cedric Earl Beard, Sr., Albert Roy Knight III, Melvin Daniel, Jr., Marquis Daniel, Anthony Knight, Tyler Cowser, Jaylon Fonville, Jevon Fonville, Felita Nelson, Trina Spikes, Traci Holland, Patrice Hunter and Keshia Beard; and her godson Wayne Hall.
