Mrs. Tekisa Latrese Terry

TERRY, Mrs. Tekisa L. - Age 36, passed away Monday, September 10, 2018 at Hurley Medical Center. Memorial Service 11:00 AM Monday, September 17, 2018, from the Chapel of Lawrence E. Moon Funeral Home, 906 W. Flint Park Blvd., Pastor Antwann Alexander, officiating. Friends and family will assemble at the Chapel 10:45 AM Monday. There will be no public viewing. Mrs. Tekisa Latrese (Gibson) Terry was born December 1, 1981 in Flint, Michigan, the daughter of John C. Smith Jr. and Joyce Ann White. She was a resident of Flint and graduated from Flint Beecher High School. Tekisa also graduated from ECPI Medical Career Institute as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). She was employed at DaVita Dialysis as a Nursing Assistant and Carmen-Ainsworth School District as a Bus Driver. Tekisa enjoyed shopping, couponing, going out with her kids and mother. She also enjoyed traveling with family, going to the movies, fashion and interior decorating. Mrs. Tekisa Latrese (Gibson) Terry leaves to cherish her memory: husband, Bernard R. Terry, Jr. of Flint; children, Joshua Isaiah Jackson and A’Mya Nikole Jackson; step-father, Cleophas M. White Sr.; step-children, Bria Terry, Shaqueal Terry, Imani Terry and Tela Terry; grandchildren, London Terry and Winter Huffman; parents, John C. Smith Jr. and Joyce Ann White; grandmothers, Delores Seldon and Deloris White; sisters, Tenisha Miller, Brittany Thompson-Smith and Sandra Wickware; brothers, Jovon Taylor, Jermaine Taylor, Cleophas White Jr., and Kenneth White; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles; mother and father-in-law, Neiokia Terry and Bernard R. Terry Sr.; sister-in-law, Nicole Waites; brothers-in-law, Jermaine Terry and Eric Terry; a host of other relatives and friends including special friends, Vackysha Langston, Constance Humphries, Micah and Gabrielle Scott, Adrika Banks, Larry Wickware and Quayondra Smith. Mrs. Terry was preceded in death by her children, JacQualian JeTerris Jackson and Aranece TaShawh Jackson; grandparents, Julia Berry, John C. Smith Sr., Claudius L. Gibson and Major White; great-grandmother, Maggie Waters; and uncles, Charles Ragland, Joel Ragland, Dewayne Ragland, John Ragland and Cyrus Davenport. The family would like to express special thanks to Dr. Monika Burness, Leta Smith, Dr. Larry Junck and the Whole Team of the University Hospital of Ann Arbor, MI, Hurley Medical Center Emergency staff and the Carman-Ainsworth Transportation Dept.

Mrs. Tekisa Latrese Terry

December 1, 1981 - September 10, 2018