Rebecca Hurd-Hope

Rebecca Hurd-Hope, 83, passed away on Monday, November 4, 2024. She grew up in Akron, Ohio & moved to Cleveland were she married her sweetheart of many years, Mr Robert Hope.

Rebecca is survived by her baby sister, Jannie Williams (Chicago), and her special friend, Miss Ashley Cross-Pettit, whom Becky referred to as her "second baby".

Becky was preceded in her passing by her husband Robert Hope; mother, Rachel Howell; father, John Williams, three sisters, Betty Jean (Akron), Mattie Pearl Cooper, and Rachel Jackson (Cleveland); two brothers, Johnny Lee Williams (Akron), John Howell (Florida).

Rebecca leaves to mourn her passing her baby sister, Jannie Williams (Chicago); three nieces Cecelia Cooper–Hardy, Kimberly Thomas, Michelle Cooper, and , all of Cleveland, along with a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

Becky loved to cook greens, chitterlings, cornbread, fried chicken, potato salad, and pound cake- not just for herself, but she would share with family and friends. She also enjoyed doing hair and was a social butterfly who knew her neighbors, especially her very close friends, Joan Freeman and Sheila Taylor.