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Bertha Lee Richardson

Funeral services were held Saturday, January 12, 2019, at St. James M.B. Church in Monticello for Mrs. Bertha Lee Berry Richardson, 80, who died Tuesday, January 8, 2019, at her daughter’s residence in Red Oak, Texas. Rev. Quinton Washington officiated with interment following in the church cemetery. Johnson Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Richardson was born to the late Climeteen and King Solomon Berry. She was a member of St. James M.B. Church and relocated to New Orleans, Louisiana. She was married to the late Joseph Richardson. Mrs. Richardson later joined Austerlitz Street M.B. Church in New Orleans, Louisiana.
She is survived by three daughters, Marilyn Walker, Giselle Richardson and Cher Richardson-Brooks; son, Joseph Richardson; seven grandchildren; thirteen great-grandchildren; one brother, Charles Berry, and many other relatives and friends.