Merdell Thomas

MERDELL THOMAS

Sandersville, MS: Merdell Yarber Thomas age 75 passed away July 18, 2018 at her daughter’s home in the old Friendship Community of Chester County.
She was born December 30, 1942 in Laurel, MS to the late Estes L. and Nezzie D. Giles Yarber. She graduated from Sandersville High School in 1961. She moved to Jackson, MS and began working at First National Bank. She married Ronald Henry Schoeppner on October 18, 1963. They raised their children in Florida and Tennessee. She did bookkeeping and secretarial work for several places over these years. She began working at Walmart in Murphey, NC in 1990 and then transferred to Laurel, MS retiring in 2005. She married John Willie Thomas in 1997.

She liked going to church, and was a member of the Bethel Baptist Church in Heidelberg, MS and sang in the choir. She enjoyed camping and working in her flower beds and playing board games one of her favorite places to visit was Universal Studios in California. Every morning she enjoyed spending time with her sisters and friends at the local café.

Mrs. Thomas is survived by a daughter, Cynthia Dawn Taylor (Terry) of Finger and a son, George Schoeppner (Carol) of Port St. Lucie, FL; a grandson, Alec Chevrie and a sister, Drennis Kay McDonald (Odell) of Heidelberg, MS; several nieces and nephews; a brother-in-law, Mitchell Robertson.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband’s, Ronald Henry Schoeppner in 1993 and John Willie Thomas in 2008; a sister, Brenda Joyce Robertson and a brother, Ronnie Eugene Yarber.

A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, August 4, at 12:00 PM at Shackelford Funeral Directors - Crook Avenue in Henderson. The family will receive friends at Crook Avenue beginning at 11:00 AM.

Shackelford Funeral Directors of Henderson, Tennessee.
731-989-2421