Graveside services were held Saturday, May 2, 2020, at Wheeler Cemetery in Bassfield, for Mrs. Bernice Harper, 88, who died Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at Asbury Hospice House in Hattiesburg.

Rev. Henry Kelly officiated with Johnson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Bernice Harper was born to the late Homer and Addie Magee Harper in Bassfield.  She was a member of St. Paul M. B. Church and attended Ridgeland School in Bassfield. She worked at Collinswood Poultry Plant  and Neco Manufacturing Company.

She is survived by: daughters, Louise McDonald and Patricia Hubbard of Bassfield; Dorothy Gibson of Georgia and Gay Riley of Louisiana and 11 grandchildren.