Emma Bonita Fairchild Jeffers

Emma Bonita Fairchild Jeffers, 93, of Hamburg, died Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at the Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock.  Mrs. Jeffers was born in Star City and was a lifelong resident of Ashley County.  She was of the Baptist faith and a member of Shiloh Baptist Church.  After she retired as a seamstress from the Hamburg Shirt Factory in 1995, she continued to work at the Hamburg Senior Center for almost ten years.  She liked to sew and quilt and would often be outside, tending her flowers and planting a garden.  Mrs. Jeffers enjoyed word search puzzles and reading diet magazines, of which she had a vast collection. She was a strong and independent woman that wasn’t afraid of speaking her mind. Mrs. Jeffers was a devoted mother to her seven children and raised them in a loving home.  She loved her children and grandchildren and would often travel to see them wherever they were.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Felton Woodrow Jeffers in 1992; three sons, James Jeffers, Gary Woodrow Jeffers, and John C. Jeffers; two granddaughters, Melisa Jeffers Barnett and Myra Lyn Fry; her parents, Clark and Winnie Helen Johnson Fairchild; two sisters, Dorothy Stewart and Marie Hogan; a son-in-law, Monty Fry and a daughter-in-law, Sherri Jeffers.

She is survived by a son, Larry Jeffers of Fountain Hill; three daughters, Jeanette Jones and husband, Jimmy, of Fountain Hill, Mary Ivey and husband, Charles, and Virginia Bowman and husband, Bobby, all of Hamburg; a brother, J.C. Fairchild and wife, Elizabeth, of Hamburg; two daughters-in-law, Carolyn Jeffers and Vanice Jeffers, both of Hamburg; 17 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren, 9 great-great-grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews.

Graveside services are 10 a.m., Friday in the Flat Creek Cemetery with Bro. Keith Boseman officiating. Honorary pallbearers are her grandsons.