Neoma Lee Beard

Neoma Lee Beard,86, of Eufaula, Oklahoma passed from this life on Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at her home in Eufaula. Neoma was born on April 13, 1940 in Fame, Oklahoma to Thomas Crockett Ingram and Lula Mae (Smith) Jacobs. Neoma married Thomas Mitchell Sr. in March of 1970 and together they shared twenty-five years of marriage until his passing in 1995. Neoma married Erdie Beard on September 26, 2003 in Van Buren, Arkansas and together they shared twenty-two years of marriage until his passing in 2025.

Neoma is survived by her son Tommy Mitchell and wife Sandra of Checotah, OK, one daughter Johnnie Mitchell of Eufaula, OK, one sister-in-law Dean Eakle and two nieces Doris Ortiz and Elaine Colbert and numerous other nieces and nephews.

Neoma is preceded in death by her parents Thomas and Lula Ingram; first husband Thomas Mitchell Sr.; husband Erdie Beard; three sisters Elsie Davis, Virginia Mae Wood and Nollie Marie Degraffenreed; and three brothers Dub Liddle William Jacobs, Herbert H. Jacobs and Floyd Andrew Jacobs.