Bertha Mooney, daughter of the late Tom and Myrtle Lee Burns Whitworth was born in Clinton, Arkansas on July 29, 1928, and passed away at the Missouri Southern Health Care in Dexter, Missouri on March 31, 2012, at the age of 83.

She had lived in Clinton, Arkansas before moving to Bernie. She was of the Pentecostal Faith. She had worked as a cook for workers on the river barges.

Surviving are one son, Edward Thomas Mooney of St. Charles and one daughter, Deborah Barnes of Bernie; three grandchildren and several great-grandchildren, by one brother, Pete Whitworth of Illinois, and two sisters, Irene Dugan and Edna Wallace, both of Parma; other relatives and friends also survive. 

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Opal, Porter and Chestell.

Visitation will be held after 12 p.m., Monday, April 2, 2012, at the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Parma.

Funeral services will be held on ar 1 p.m., Monday, April 2, 2012, at the Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Parma.

Interment will be in the Bernie Cemetery in Bernie, Missouri.