Wanda Ward

OBITUARY
JESUS SAID UNTO HER, I AM THE RESURRECTION, AND THE LIFE, HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME THOUGH HE WAS DEAD, YET SHALL HE LIVE:  AND WHOSOEVER LIVETH AND BELIEVETH IN ME SHALL NEVER DIE. BELIEVEST THOU THIS?                           JOHN 11:25-26
WANDA WAS BORN TO RICHARD AND ELIZABETH C. PETERSON ON DECEMBER 4, 1955 IN BESSEMER, AL.
SHE CONFESSED HOPE IN CHRIST AT AN EARLY AGE AND JOINED THE NEW ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF REV. E. L. WILSON.  SHE SERVED AS SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT AND A MEMBER OF THE MISSION MINISTRY.
SHE WAS EDUCATED IN THE JEFFERSON COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM AND GRADUATED FROM HUEYTOWN HIGH SCHOOL IN 1974.
ON JANUARY 4, 2018, GOD CALLED HER TO REST FROM ALL WORRIES, PAIN AND AT A PLACE OF NO TEARS OR SUFFERING.
PRECEDING HER IN DEATH ARE HER FATHER, RICHARD PETERSON, TWO SISTERS, ANNETTE PETERSON HILL, AND CAROLYN ANN KELLY, GRANDPARENTS, DAN AND VELMA CARTER, AND RICH PETERSON AND EFFIE BESTER.
SHE LEAVES TO CHERISH HER MEMORY; MOTHER ELIZABETH C. PETERSON OF BESSEMER, AL; TWO SONS JOSEPH D. PETERSON (LA TASHA), HAYWARD L. PETERSON OF BESSEMER, AL; A DAUGHTER YOLANDA R. WREN (EDWARD) OF BESSEMER, AL; FIVE GRANDCHILDREN,   DE JUAN HOLLIS, AYSIA WREN, TYLER PETERSON, RACHEL AUSTIN, AND SUMMER PETERSON; TWO BROTHERS, RICHARD PETERSON, AND HAROLD G. PETERSON BOTH OF BESSEMER, AL; THREE SISTERS, DELORES PETERSON, MARSHA L. ACOFF AND JEANETTE PETERSON ALL OF BESSEMER, AL; SPECIAL AUNT AND UNCLE, MARY AND EDGAR LUVERT OF BESSEMER, AL;TWO UNCLES, DAN CARTER OF COLUMBUS, OH, AND ARTHUR DIAL SR. OF BESSEMER, AL; TWO AUNTS, NONNIE CARTER AND EDNA CARTER BOTH OF COLUMBUS, OH; SPECIAL COUSIN TERRI L. LUVERT; AND A HOST OF NIECES AND NEPHEWS, COUSINS, AND A SPECIAL FRIEND LIZZIE BESTER AND MANY MORE SPECIAL FRIENDS.