Obituary: Lucy Pearl Mitchell

May 19, 1921 – December 30, 2022

Lucy Pearl Mitchell, 101, of Oolitic, passed away at 9:32 a.m. on Friday, December 30, 2022, at Stonebridge Health Campus in Bedford.

Born May 19, 1921, in Knoxtown, KY, she was the daughter of William and Ollie (Cobb) Perry. She married Ralph E. Mitchell on September 30, 1945, and he preceded her in death on September 13, 1998. She was of the Pentecostal Faith.

Survivors include a daughter, Betina Gates, and husband, Ed, of Bedford; two grandsons, Timothy Beyers, and wife, Caci, of Georgia, and Joshua Beyers and wife, Amanda, of Bedford; two great-grandsons, Alan and Waylon Beyers; two step-grandchildren, Susan Gates and spouse Leslie Thompson, and Jeff Gates and wife Michele; three step-great-grandchildren, Nathan Sipes, Dylan Sipes, and Sienna Gates; three step great-great grandchildren a brother, Larry Perry, of Oolitic.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a daughter, Patricia Ann Jenkins; three sisters, Edna Whitaker, Irene Stewart, and Sally Roth; five brothers, Burchill, John, Earl E., and Charles Perry.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 3, 2023, in the Elmwood Chapel of the Day & Carter Mortuary with Bro. Marty Speer officiating. Burial will follow in Beech Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10:00 a.m. until the hour of service on Tuesday at the Day & Carter Mortuary.

Family and friends may express condolences at www.daycarter.com.