Bessie Imogene Shapland, age 99, of Farmington, Ark., passed away Thursday, May 26, 2022. She was born May 17, 1923 in the Sunset Community near Winslow to Miles and Jerusha Osburn Doss. She was a member of Paradise Assembly of God in Paradise, Calif. She was preceded in death by her husband Elroy Aldis Shapland.
She is survived by two daughters: Karen Shapland and her husband, Rick Turnbull, of Winslow, Ark., and Sheryl Dowell of Farmington; three sons: Glenn Shapland of Las Vegas, Denis Shapland of West Point, California and Dale Shapland and his wife Elinie of Castro Valley, California; eight grandchildren, and seventeen great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be 4 – 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 31, 2022, at Moore's Chapel in Fayetteville. Burial will take place at a later time in Sunset Cemetery under the direction of Moore's Chapel.
To place an online tribute, please visit: www.bernafuneralhomes.com.

Published May 29, 2022