Beulah Hardesty Thompson

Saturday, December 21, 2019

Beulah Hardesty Thompson, 90, of Brentwood, Tenn., and formerly of Blytheville, passed away at Brighton Gardens in Brentwood, Tenn.

Beulah was born in Blytheville to Cairl and Mattie Walker Nunnery. After 44 years of teaching, Beulah retired from South Pemiscot County School District. She attended First Baptist Church in Steele from 2005 until 2012. Beulah was a former member of the Blytheville Women’s Club and the Steele Book Club.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Pete Hardesty; and her second husband, Lemond Thompson.

Beulah leaves her children, Pete Wells Hardesty of Brentwood, Tenn., and Brenda Wren-Wilson of Blytheville; two grandchildren, Gary Wren, Jr. and Austin Hardesty; and four great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 20, in the Cobb Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jimmy Clark and Mrs. Tommie Lou Brooks officiating. Burial was private. The family received friends from 10 a.m. until service time at Cobb Funeral Home.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.cobbfuneralhome.com.