ForeverMissed
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Her Life
March 3, 2014

JoAnn Bumpers Heard was born in Maplesville, AL on March 26, 1960 to the late Dorothy Bell Gardner Bumpers and Amos Bumpers.

She united her life to Christ at an early age at Berry Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, in Clarke County Alabama. She quietly and peacefully departed life, February 27, 2014 at West Georgia Medical Center in LaGrange, Ga.

JoAnn was a 1978 graduate of Coffeeville High School in Coffeeville, Alabama, and later continued her education at Alabama State University in Business Administration.

In 1984, she united in Holy Matrimony to Broderick Jerome Heard Sr. and to this union four beautiful children were born, Broderick Jr., Jasmine, Brittany, and Braxton.

She started her career as property manager with Aimco Inc. She later became the assistant director at Kid Konnection Day Care in Montgomery, Alabama. After many wonderful years in Montgomery, she and her family relocated to Troup County, GA. From 2013 to her untimely death, she worked as a sales consultant with Farmers Home Furniture in Valley, Alabama.

JoAnn was a woman who met no strangers. She always had a word of encouragement to others. She built a continued rich legacy of love for God, for family, and others.

She was preceded in death by her father, Amos Bumpers and mother, Dorothy Bell Gardner Bumpers.

She leaves to cherish her memories: her devoted husband of 29 years, Broderick Jerome Heard Sr.; two sons, Broderick Heard Jr. of Montgomery, AL and Braxton Jerel Heard of LaGrange, GA; two daughters, Jasmine Breuna Heard of Auburn, AL and Brittany Janay Heard of Montgomery, AL; two grandsons, Ashton Harris-Heard of Birmingham, AL and Lorenzo Brown of Montgomery, AL; three sisters, Alice Faye Jenkins of Selma, AL, Ronessa (Charles) Sellers of Montgomery, AL, and Alice Jackson of Montgomery, AL; one brother, Leonard Bumpers of Detroit,MI; mother-in-law, Genevieve W. Heard of West Point, GA; three brother-in-laws, Willie Jr. (Sylvia) Heard of Duluth, GA, Benjamin (Almalda) Heard of Rancho Cucamonga, CA, and Stanley (Valerie) Heard of LaGrange,GA; three sister-laws, Beverly H. Ball of Montgomery, AL, Lana Williams and Jacqueline Lovelace of LaGrange, GA; one uncle, Earlie (Clara) Gardner of Maplesville, AL; one aunt, Shirley Gardner of Detroit, MI; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, close and special friends.