June 25, 1980 – Dec. 10, 2013

 

FAYETTE — Funeral services for Yashica Lavette Colenberg, 33, of Fayette, who died Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, at University Medical Center in Jackson, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Hollywood Baptist Church in Fayette, with the Rev. Anthony Colenberg officiating.

Burial will follow in Hollywood Baptist Church Cemetery under the direction of Spencer Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 2 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Colenberg was born June 25, 1980, in Natchez, the daughter of the Rev. Elvis E. Colenberg Sr. and Sadria Faye Colenberg.

She accepted Christ at an early age and joined the Rose Hill #1 Missionary Baptist Church, under the leadership of the Rev. Wilson Ford Sr. She later moved her membership to the Hollywood Missionary Baptist Church where her father serves as pastor. She loved her church and her church family. She joined the choir and was a faithful member until her health failed.

Yashica’s life would seem too short to many, but those who were touched by her understood that the quality of existence far exceeds the quantity of time in which one lives. She touched the lives of many people with her warm smile and generosity, and maintained her trademark sense of humor all the way to the end.

She never met a stranger. She loved people and had a big heart. She gave us all such courage and hope and reminded us of how precious life is.

The Lord quietly sent one of his angels to calmly lay on one of his own children. The angel whispered, “I know you are tired, come on home and rest a while. You have fought a good fight, you have kept the faith, enter now into the joy of the Lord.”

She was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Robert and Catherine Vanderson, and Gus Gilchrist Sr.; paternal grandparents, James and Shirley Felton, and I.P. Hall; uncle, Rev. John Kenneth Colenberg; aunt, Jo Ann Wyatt; and cousins, Derix Perryman and Shelby Hall Jr.

Survivors include her devoted parents; two brothers, Elvis E. Colenberg Jr. and wife, Kenyatta, and Tramond Lee Colenberg, both of Fayette; two nieces, Destiny Colenberg, and Trinity Campbell Colenberg; five nephews, Del’Brico, DeKarrin, Triston, Kingston, and Princeton Colenberg, all of Fayette; step-grandmother, Argie Gilchrist; two special aunts, Yolanda Chambliss and husband, Jerome, and Veronica Stampley and husband, Dewayne; aunts, Betty King, and Vanessa Johnson and husband, Ronald, and Vera Hall, all of Fayette; uncles, Rev. Anthony Colenberg and wife, Betty, James Gilchrist, Gus Gilchrist Jr., Robert Vanderson, Isaac Colenberg and wife, Katie, Shelby Hall, Gary Hall and wife, Franchesca, James Hall and wife, Valentina, Darren Colenberg and wife, Sheryl, Lee Andrew Felton, all of Fayette, Stanley Wyatt, and Kelvin Gilchrist, and wife, Brenda, both of Jackson, Freddie Lee Smith, of Monroe, and Isaac Harris, of Fort Knox, Ky.; five great-uncles, Sam Williams Jr. and wife, Cressie, of Waukegan, Ill, Kenneth Coffie and wife, Marva, of Fayetteville, NC., and John Colenberg and wife, Maxine, of New Orleans; three special great aunts, Gloria Berry and husband, David, Sarah Clark and husband, Howard, and Jestina Alsworth, all of Fayette; special cousins, Joh’Landa Felton, Briana Brooks, Patricia Perryman, Kayla Alsworth, Kenisha Coffie, Katrina Berry, Mary Trimble and Yolanda Colenberg Rankin; god-mother, Brenda Coleman, of Aliceville, Ala.; god-father, James Gilchrist, of Fayette; and a number of other relatives and friends.

Pallbearers will be Issac Colenberg Sr., James Gilchrist, Shelvy Hall, Gary Hall, Darren Colenberg and Lee Andrew Felton.

Honorary Pallbearers will be Elvis Colenberg Jr., Tramond Colenberg, Anthony Colenberg, Gus Gilchrist Jr., Issac Colenberg Jr. and Robert Vanderson.