Mrs. Nellie Teaster Bare of Jefferson passed away Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, at her residence. She was 68.

Mrs. Bare was born on Saturday, Aug. 25, 1945, to the late Guy and Sarah Taylor Teaster.

She retired from Burgess Furniture. She attended Welcome Home Baptist Church. She was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother and will be missed by all.

She is preceded in death by three sisters, Joyce Pasley, Geraldine Houck, and Jessie Lou Testerman; and one brother; Neal Teaster.

She is survived by her husband, Larry Jerry Bare; two sons; Rick Bare and wife Teresa of Asheville, and Tim Bare of Wytheville, Va.; two daughters; Cindy Bare Walters and husband Luke of Crumpler, and Teresa Bare Milner and husband Lyn of Fletcher; 10 grandchildren, Alec Bare, Elise Bare, Emily Bare, Natalie Bare, Adam Milner, Gracie Milner, Ethan Milner, Nicholas Bare-Walters, Allison Bare, and Andrew Brady; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, at Boone Family Funeral Home with Rev. Lonnie Jones, Rev. Guy Testerman, and Rev. Sonny Thomas officiating. Burial will follow in the Ashelawn Memorial Gardens.

The family received friends on Wednesday at Boone Family Funeral Home.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be to the donor's choice.

You may give the family your condolences at our website www.boonefuneralhome.com.

Boone Family Funeral Home of West Jefferson is in charge of these arrangements.