Brooklyn Kay Berry

Services for Brooklyn Kay Berry, 16, of Kilgore will be ten a.m., Wednesday January 10th, 2024, at New Covenant Church located at 5621 Farm to Market Rd 2087, Longview, TX 75603 with Pastor Shannon Pickard officiating. Burial will immediately follow the service at Pleasant Hill Cemetery located at 334 CR 426, Tenaha, TX, 75974. A visitation will be held on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, from six until eight o’clock in the afternoon at Rader Funeral home in Kilgore. Brooklyn was a valiant warrior who completed her journey on December 31,2023 due to Type1 Diabetes complications.

Brooklyn Kay was born on May 7, 2007, in Longview Texas on her MeMe’s birthday. She was adorably wise at an early age and brought her family much joy. Brooklyn last attended Kilgore High School where she was a Junior. Brooklyn loved Horses, trail rides, Disney, the Dallas Cowboys, and her little sister Journee. She was a food connoisseur and had every restaurant menu memorized by heart. Brooklyn loved any family event or barbecue that included her favorite foods. She especially loved Crab legs even though she had no regard for how expensive they were. Brooklyn aspired to be a pediatric endocrinologist nurse one day. She loved a good internet meme and shared them with us daily. More than anything she loved her large family and all the unique personalities that made them special. Brooklyn was extremely funny and didn’t dice words and she was usually right. She brought humor, laughter and joy and light to every situation. She had a way of always making you feel better and that everything would be ok, even when it was hard. Her smile was infectious, her spirit contagious and to know her was to know what unconditional love was all about. No one that met her didn’t instantly love her and want her in their world.

Left to cherish Brooklyn’s memory are her mother Maranda Taylor and her significant other Ron Marshall of Kilgore, father Elvis Berry, Jr., of Beckville, sister Journee Marshall of Kilgore, and brothers Lagon and Craig of Arlington. Grandparents Mike and Carrie Cowan of Kilgore; grandmothers Elizabeth Berry of Beckville and Neecy Marshall of Arlington; great grandparents Randy and Linda Tomlinson, Helen Johnson of Longview, and Jim and Linda Cowan of Kilgore; uncles and aunts; Andy Taylor and Natalie of Kilgore, Jake Taylor and Kayla of Liberty City, Anna Taylor of Longview, Logan Greenberg, Travis Irvin- Mobile Alabama, LaToria Berry of Beckville, Brian Berry and wife Heather of Carthage, LaKebra Berry and wife Christy of Tatum, and LaKeisha Pelzer and husband Kenyatta of Elizabeth City, NC. Along with her cousins, Asher Irvin of Mobile AL, Dawson Taylor of Liberty City, Ollie Taylor of Kilgore, Olivia Taylor of Liberty City, Shiloh Porter of Longview, Kelon Berry, Ahriana Henderson, Caleb Berry, Tristan Berry, Jeremiah Berry, Malachi Pelzer, Micah Pelzer, Mekenzy Allison, Izaiah Berry, Kailey Allison, Emmanuel Pelzer, Braylen Berry and numerous adopted aunties, cousins, friends, and extended family. Finally, Brooklyn’s special companion (service dog) age 5, Honey Beeatrice Berry.

Brooklyn is reunited with her grandfather Elvis Berry, Sr., great-grandparents Roy and Ruthie Berry and aunts Anissa Kay Irvin, and TawTaw Trey Taylor.

Memorial contributions may be made to Children with Diabetes-FFL Scholarship in her name which will go to the local Type1 family of Laylah Smith to attend the same conference Brooklyn loved and attended at Disney.

Online condolences may be left at www.raderfune ralhome.com