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Shy-Rieka Amari DeBerry

1989 - 2021

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HUNTINGDON  -  Mrs. Shy-Rieka Amari DeBerry died November 6, 2021 in Kansas City, Missouri, where she courageously battled brain cancer for 4 years.

Funeral services were Saturday, November 13, 2021 at Dilday-Carter Funeral Home. Interment was in the Humbles Cemetery.

Miss Shy-Rieka Williams was born to Roger Williams and Lisa Woods Williams on October 21, 1989 in Jackson, Tenn.. She graduated from Huntingdon High School in Huntingdon, Tenn. 

She married James A. DeBerry on December 15, 2012. She was preceded in death by her father, Roger Williams, her maternal grandmother, Alice Faye Rice Hampton, her paternal grandmother, Betty Lou Williams.

She leaves to cherish her memories, a devoted and loving husband, Mr. James DeBerry of Kansas City,  her mother, Lisa Woods Williams of Huntingdon,  two sisters, LaSonya Burnett of Liberty, MO and Nyrobi Williams of Huntingdon,  two brothers, Brian Sherron of Clarksville and Benjamin Sherron of Humboldt, her grandfathers, Charles (Su) Woods of Savannah, Georgia, and Steve Hampton of Huntingdon.