The funeral service for Jessie Pearl (Lewallen) Faulkner will be 11:00AM Saturday, January 4, 2020 in the Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home. Rev. Gail  Edmison officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Jessie Pearl (Lewallen) Faulkner of Bentonville, AR, passed from this life on January 1, 2020, at age 95.  She was born October 26, 1924, in Delight, Arkansas, to Lois and Johnnie (Bolding) Lewallen.  She grew up in Delight and graduated from Delight High School in 1942.  On June 9, 1942, she married her high school sweetheart, Charles Faulkner.  The newlyweds moved to Bethany, Oklahoma, for Charles to attend Bethany Nazarene College. While at Bethany, they became the proud parents of Charlotte and Douglas.  Jessie spent the next few years as a full-time mom and minister's wife.

She was determined to achieve a college degree, so as the years passed they lived in Arkansas, Colorado, Arizona, Missouri and New Mexico where she attended Arkansas State University, Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, and eventually graduated from Arizona State University.

She began her elementary school teaching career in Arizona and retired from teaching in Arkansas.

Jessie loved to travel and visited many of the states as well as Mexico. She was an accomplished pianist and spent many hours playing for services at the churches Charles pastored over the years.  She enjoyed planting and tending flowers and vegetable gardening.  She was the consummate host, and no one ever left her house hungry!  She was quite happy and content on the back of a horse, and at age 86 actually went on a trail ride with Douglas at his ranch in Oklahoma!

Jessie committed her life to Christ as a teenager and lived a beautiful life as a testimony to her faith.

Jessie was preceded in death by her parents; brothers Clark and Frank Lewallen; husband Charles Faulkner; son Douglas Faulkner and granddaughter Angela Faulkner.

She is survived by daughter Charlotte (Faulkner) Potter (husband Dr. Gary Potter); grandsons Bill Douglas Potter (wife Kathy), Andrew Faulkner (wife Brittany);

great-grandsons Matthew Potter (wife Amanda), Daniel Potter (wife Kelsey), Range, River and Seven Faulkner; great-granddaughter London Faulkner; great-great grandson Samuel Potter and great-great granddaughter Evelyn Potter.  She is also survived by nieces Jo Ann Sievers and Mary Lois Mills; nephews Raymond, Larry and John Lewallen.  She was also loved by many friends and one very special sister-in-law, Eva May Brown, who was her dear friend from childhood.

Special appreciation is extended to the staff of Concordia Care Center, Bella Vista, AR, for their loving care of Jessie over the past 5 years.

In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to your local Hospice or charity of your choice.

Condolences may be made to the family online at www.enidwecare.com