Mrs. Beatrice Thomas, 90, of Beaumont, Texas, passed away on Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at Beaumont Health Care Center in Beaumont, Texas.

Celebration of Life Services for Mrs. Thomas will be held on Saturday, August 3, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. at Macedonia Baptist Church, located at 1047 Gladys Street, Beaumont, Texas 77701. A public viewing will be held for Mrs. Thomas on Friday, August 2, 2024 from 12:00 Noon until 5:00 p.m. at Mercy Funeral Home Chapel and Visitation on Saturday, August 3, 2024, prior to the service time from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the Church. Burial Service to follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park and Cemetery in Beaumont, Texas.  For your safety social distancing and facial masks are recommended.

Obtiuary

Beatrice Jefferson Thomas was born on September 1, 1933, to the late Joseph Jefferson and Alice Alexander Jefferson in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. She married the love of her life, Henry A. Thomas, on August 25, 1951, and, to their union, nine children were born.

She is preceded in death by her parents; husband; two daughters, Cynthia Marie Harris and  and Louvenia Fontenette; one great-grandson, Devon Fontenette; one great-granddaughter, Kylie Thomas; two brothers, Percy Jefferson and Jules Jefferson; three sisters, Angelina Glaude, Mary Sam and Elizabeth Jean Batiste; one daughter-in-law, Diane Gobert Thomas; sons-in-law, Ronald (B.B.) James, Sr, and Gilbert Fontenette. Sr.,.

Beatrice's memories will forever remain the the heats of her two daughters, Alice James of Beaumont, Texas, and Danetta Cameron of Friendswood, Texas; five sons, James Louis Thomas (Beverly) of DeSoto, Texas, Richard Thomas, Sr., Henry Collegiate Thomas, Sr., Curtis Lee Thomas, Sr. (Mary), and Jeffery Thomas, Sr., all of Beaumont, Texas; two granddaughters, who she raised, Cynthia Evon Harper (Jayson) of Cypress, Texas, and Keyanna Marie Alexander (Willie) of Fresno, Texas; twenty-six  grandchildren; fifty-eight great-grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends.