of Fox, AR

September 21, 1938 - July 6, 2022

Lula Belle Sprinkle was born September 21, 1938, the eldest of nine children in the Bull Creek community near Mars Hill, North Carolina. She was the first child of James Andrew Sprinkle and Johnnie Margaret (Edwards) Sprinkle. Lula Belle graduated Salutatorian of her high school class, and later in her forties, went on to earn a Bachelor's Degree in accounting from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Lula Belle then moved to St Louis, Missouri and took a clerical job at the Federal Records center. She met Jimmy Berry while living with her sister, Patricia. On the day they met, he asked her to take him for a ride in her big bad Pontiac Tempest, and they were together from that summer in 1964 until his passing in 2019.

When they moved back to Arkansas in 1973, she took a job with the US Army Corps of Engineers in Little Rock. She then took a job in Fort Belvoir, Virginia that pushed her pay grade from GS-9 to GS-12. She went from Fort Belvoir, Virginia on to work at the Pulaski Building in Washington, D.C., and then to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia as a personnel administrator. She spent the vast amount of her time in the Federal Government in Personnel, or by its more common name these days, Human Resources. When she retired, she and her husband built a new house on their family farm in Rushing, Arkansas.

Lula Belle is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Jimmy Berry; sisters, Patricia Johnston, Lois Hensley, Jamie Partenheimer, Willie Jo Wilde and Naomi Sams.

Lula Belle is survived by her son, Jesse Berry (Paula Linn); stepson, Jimmy Gene Berry; grandchildren, Louis Berry, Nick Berry, Samantha Berry, Jimmy Berry, Jr.; brothers, Mert Sprinkle, Jimmy Sprinkle and sister, Sarah Faye Ledbetter.

Funeral Services for Lula will be 11AM, Monday, July 11, 2022 at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Fox, Arkansas. Visitation will be one hour prior. Interment will follow at Fox Cemetery in Fox, Arkansas.

Obituary Provided By:
Roller-Crouch Funeral Home
405 Peabody
Mountain View, AR  72560
www.rollerfuneralhomes.com