Mrs. Frances Juanita Wright Beard, 87, of Fayetteville passed away Friday, February 20, 2015.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, February 25, 2015, at 1 pm in Jernigan Warren Chapel with Apostle Wiley Hughes presiding. The burial will follow at LaFayette Memorial Park.

Frances was a member of Mt. Carmel Pentecostal/ Destiny Now for over 40 years.

She is survived by her husband, Junior Beard; daughter, Karen Wright Maness and husband Llewellyn Shane Maness of Greenville; 2 sons, Michael Blane Wright and wife Sharron of Dunn and Christopher Graham Wright of Jasper, TN; 2 step-daughters, Myra Elizabeth Cowart of Stark, FL and Delores Grohmann and husband Hank of Newport, NC; 4 grandchildren; 5 great-grandchildren; and Cindy Jo Weber of Fayetteville.

*** DUE TO THE INCLEMENT WEATHER, the family will receive friends Wednesday from 11 am to 1 pm at Jernigan Warren Funeral Home prior to the service INSTEAD OF Tuesday evening. ***