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IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Jeraldine Price

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Booker Banks

Jan 7, 1945 — Sep 1, 2022

Altoona

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Obituary

Mrs. Jeraldine Price Booker Banks, 77, of Altoona, Pennsylvania formerly of Beaumont, Texas, passed away on Thursday, September 1, 2022 in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

The Celebration of Life Service for Mrs. Banks will be held on Saturday, September 17, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. at West Tabernacle Baptist Church, located at 3605 Waco Street in Beaumont, Texas.  The public viewing for Mrs. Banks will be held on Friday, September 16, 2022, from 12:00 Noon until 5:00 p.m. at Mercy Funeral Home Chapel and visitation on Saturday, September 17, 2022, from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. at West Tabernacle Baptist Church, with Burial Service to follow at Fleming Cemetery in Beaumont, Texas. The practice of social distancing and Facial Masks are required, under the direction of Mercy Funeral Home.

Jeraldine Price Booker-Banks passed away peacefully on September 1, 2022, in Altoona, Pennsylvania. She was the eleventh child of the late Reverend Archie Lee Price and Cleona Barker Price. Born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, Jeraldine attended Beaumont public schools, graduating from Hebert High School in 1963. While a student at Hebert High School, she worked as a nurse's aide at Hotel Dieu hospital in Beaumont, which was the beginning of a lifelong passion for caring for people. She attended Prairie View A&M, but left before receiving a degree to prepare for the birth of her only child, Squire J. Booker. She spent most of her adult life working as a respiratory therapist throughout the Bay Area of California as well as the Clearlake area and the Monterey Peninsula. She also ran her own residential care home in Monterey, California for several years before returning to Beaumont to take care of her mother and sister, and then her brother. In 2006, she moved to State College, Pennsylvania to be with her son, who is a professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at The Pennsylvania State University. Throughout her life, she was very active in the church and was one of the founders of Praises of Zion Baptist Church in Clearlake, California.
Jeraldine married Squire Booker, Sr., whom she met at Prairie View A&M University, and then Eddie E. Banks from the Bay Area of California, who preceded her in death. She is preceded in death by her mother and father, and by five brothers, (Archie, Othello, Charles, Albert, and baby Leroy) and two sisters, (Doris and Anita). She is survived by her son, Squire J. Booker, her brother, Richard and her sisters, Gloria, Betty, and Claudia in addition to a host of nieces and nephews and grand nieces and nephews.
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Funeral Service

September
17

Saturday

West Tabernacle Baptist Church

3605 Waco Street, Beaumont, TX 77705

Starts at 11:00 am

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