Willie Pearl Frazier

© The Bakersfield Californian

9 December 2004

Submitted by: Alex Carter

WILLIE PEARL FRAZIER
Services: Fri., Dec 10, 11 a.m.

Willie Pearl Frazier went to be with our Lord on December 5, 2004. She was born on September 15, 1935, in Oberlin, Oklahoma to Reverend Paul Bagby, Sr. and Ola Alberta Block Bagby.

Willie Pearl was a graduate of Bakersfield Adult School. She was a community contact counselor and a teacher's aide for the Bakersfield City School District for nineteen years. In 1990, she retired. She was also an employee at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Park Facility for the Bakersfield City Recreation Department during this time. After her retirement from the school district she was employed as a store clerk. Williie Pearl was a faithful Sunday School member until her illness prevented her attendance. She also enjoyed her puzzles and bowling.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Rev. Paul Bagby and Ola Alberta Bagby, four brothers, Homer, George William, Freddie B. and Freddie D. Bagby and her sister, Ola Jearl Lee.

Willie Pearl Frazier leaves to cherish her memory and celebrate her homegoing; her special husband, Nathan E. Howard; five daughters, Sharon Green and husband, Vincent Green, Beverly A. Moland and her fiancé, Lyle Furlow, Deborah Ann Richardson, Patricia A. Symonds and husband, Tim Symonds, Cheryl Denise Abron and husband, Paul A. Abron; two sons, Ronald Edward Thomas and wife, Shay and Kenneth W. Frazier all of Bakersfield, California; three sisters, Juanita Williams, Allie Mae Frazier and husband, Larry Frazier and Lorene Johnson; three brothers, Billy Joe Bagby, Willard Bagby, Sr. and wife, Sarah, and Paul Bagby, Jr., all of Bakersfield, California; 8 grandsons, 15 granddaughters, 10 great great grandchildren, and a host of other loving relatives and cherished friends.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Willie Pearl Frazier's memory to St. John Missionary Baptist Church, 1401 East Brundage Lane, Bakersfield, California 93307.

Viewing and visitation to start Thursday, December 9, 2004, at 11:00 a.m. with an hour of meditation to be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Chapel of Rucker's Mortuary. A Celebration of Life will be held Friday, December 10, 2004, at 11:00 a.m., at St. John Missionary Baptist Church, 1401 E. Brundage Lane. Rev. Tyree D. Toliver is officiating with interment to follow at Union Cemetery.

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