Mother Bernice Young

06/16/1925 - 03/27/2019

Obituary For Mother Bernice Young

Mother Bernice Young was born in Greenwood, SC on June 16, 1925 to the parents the late Frank Johnson and Mother Elouise Johnson.

Mother Young relocated to Fort Pierce in 1993 from West Haven, CT. Upon retirement where she was a presser. During her life, the church was her life. She was converted at the early age of 17. In Connecticut, she was a Sunday School teacher, Youth Department Coordinator, and the president for many years in Connecticut of COGIC Usher Board. At St. Mark, she was active on the mothers board.

Her greatest joy was going to Laurel Pointe, Abbie Jean Russell, and Fort Pierce Health Care nursing homes encouraging the elderly. For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Mother Young left this life for a better one on Wednesday, March 27, 2019. She was preceded in death by her son, Roscoe Johnson and brother, David Johnson. Left to cherish her memories are her daughter, Annie Marie Johnson of Port St. Lucie, FL; granddaughter, Cassandra Johnson; aunt, Lillie Davis; god-daughter, Sherline Davis of Bridgeport, Connecticut; god-son, Lee Artis McNeil, Jr.; spiritual son, Elder Jimmie Foster of Vero Beach; spiritual daughters, Francis Brewen of New Haven, Connecticut, Mary Dobsons of Fort Pierce, FL, and Missionary Jackie Foster of Vero Beach, FL, and a host of cousins, family and sorrowing friends who will miss her dearly.

Public visitation for Mother Bernice Young will take place on Friday, April 5, 2019 from 4:00pm-6:00pm at St. Mark's Missionary Baptist Church in Fort Pierce, FL. Funeral services will convene on Saturday, April 6, 2019 also at St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church beginning at 10:00am. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Fort Pierce, FL.

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