Jeannette Pearl Waters October 26, 1952 – January 6, 2018 Jeannette Pearl Waters, 65, of Kinston, formerly of Wilson, passed away Saturday. Funeral services will be conducted 11:00 a.m. Thursday, January 11, 2018, at Thomas-Yelverton Funeral Home, 2704 Nash St. N, Wilson, NC. Interment will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park, Wilson, NC. The family will receive friends 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Thursday, prior to the service, at Thomas-Yelverton Funeral Home. Surviving are one brother, Ralph Paul Waters and wife, Barbara, of Naples, FL; one sister, Alice C. Heffner and husband, Daniel H. Heffner, of Wilson; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ralph Franklin Waters and Pauline Burkle Waters. Flowers are welcome and memorials may be directed to the Caswell Developmental Center Gamma Unit, 2415 W. Vernon Ave., Kinston, NC 28501. Funeral services are under the direction of Thomas-Yelverton Funeral Home, Wilson, NC. Online condolences may be sent to www.thomasyelverton.com.