Wilma Jean West, age 92, and a resident of Newton, passed away Monday, May 6, 2024 at the Lackey Convalescent Home in Forest.

Visitation will be held on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm at Newton County Funeral Home - South in 100 Old Highway 15 Loop, Newton.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 1:00 pm at Newton County Funeral Home - South Chapel with Rev. Billy Martin officiating.

Burial will follow in the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Newton County Funeral Home.

Wilma Jean Myers was born January 12, 1932 to her parents Alonzo and Ollie Mae Hall Myers. She spent her childhood in Merigold, in the Mississippi Delta, where she also attended school. She married John David West, in her junior year of high school, on February 26, 1949, and spent a lifetime together of 64 years at his passing. She was a devoted pastor's wife, mother, and grandmother. She enjoyed crocheting, reading, working word search and cross word puzzles. Her favorite game to play was Yahtzee, and the family crowned her the "Queen of Yahtzee." In her later years, she thoroughly enjoyed showing off and talking about her "little house" on Midway Road near her daughter Renee and her son-in-law, Steven Davis. She was a Christian who loved her Lord. She will be missed by those who knew and loved her.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Bro. John David West, Sr.; daughter, Gloria Jean West; parents, Alonzo C. and Ollie Mae Hall Myers; granddaughter, Katherine Lynn Davis and great-grandson: Colton 'Lane Roberts; one brother and four sisters also precede her in death.

Survivors include her son, John  David West, Jr. of Newton;  daughters, Kaye Ganann of Bella Vista, AR and Renee Davis (Steven) of Newton;  grandsons, John  West, III (Brandi), Jonathan  West (Jennifer), Stanley West (Amanda), Joseph Ganann (Maddie) and Joshua Davis;  granddaughters, Cindy  Kitchings (Ben), Jennifer Breland (Joe), Becky Roberts, Laura Ganann (Nathan Fridley), Lindsay Byrd (Cory) and Albany Beasley (Matthew); twenty three  great-grandchildren and four  great-great grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be John West III, Stanley West, Jonathan West, Joseph Ganann, Joshua Davis, and Matthew Beasley.

Honorary pallbearers will be Dillon Breland, J.D. West, Ethan West, Alex West, Hayden West, Hayes West, Parker Wise, Christopher West, Griffin West, and Cameron Byrd.

Newton County Funeral Home - South is in charge of arrangements.

An online guestbook may be signed at www.newtoncountyfuneralhome.com