Mrs. Sellers suffered from cancer.

Visitation will be 5:30-7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 3, at Roller-Farmers Union Funeral Home, Jonesboro

Funeral at 2:00 Wed. Afternoon. Burial will follow in Shiloh cemetery.
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Bertha Iona Davis Sellars, 95, of Jonesboro, died Friday, December 30, 2016, at the Flo & Phil Jones Hospice House.

She was born January 26, 1921, at Des Arc to William Jesse and Julie Broughton Davis. She lacked only 27 days being 96 years old.

She was a farmer's wife, and had retired from St. Bernard's housekeeping.

She was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene.

She loved gardening, canning vegetables, sewing, and was a counselor and mentor to many in her church and community.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ava Jewell Sellars; a son, Jesse Walter Sellars; four brothers, Bill Davis, James Davis, Russell Davis, and L.B. ''Mutt'' Davis; and two sisters, Dollie Bobbitt and Emmer Bobbitt.

She is survived by her son, Jewell (Barbara) Sellars; three daughters, Melba (Don) Rush, Velma (Jim) Pieri, and Julie (Sheldon) Adamson; 11 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

There will be a visitation 5:30-7:30pm, Tuesday, January 3, at Roller-Farmers Union Funeral Home, 1900 West Washington, Jonesboro.

Funeral service will be 2:00pm, Wednesday, January 4, at the funeral home, with Roger Hutchison officiating. Burial will follow at Shiloh Cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers will be David Hammett, Dennis Hammett, Randy Hammett, Rob Geha, Eric Bowers, and Rick Isom.

Honorary pallbearers will be Mark Henry, Gary Henry, Jesse Sellars, Mike Sellars, Sheldon Adamson, Don Rush, Jim Pieri, and Joe Pierce.

Lasting memorials may be made to First Church of the Nazarene, 406 Creath, Jonesboro, AR 72401