Bertha Isabel (Cuppett) Bryant

A visitation for Bertha will be held Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 10:00 AM at El Camino Memorial Chapel, 5600 Carroll Canyon Road, San Diego, CA 92121. A funeral service will occur Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 11:00 AM, 5600 Carroll Canyon Road, San Diego, CA 92121. A graveside service will occur Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 12:00 PM at El Camino Memorial Park, 5600 Carroll Canyon Rd, San Diego, CA 92121. A reception will occur Tuesday, August 24, 2021 from 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM at El Camino Memorial Banquet Room, 5600 Carroll Canyon Road, San Diego, CA 92121.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.sorrentovalleychapel.com for the Bryant family.

From the Family:

Scripture tells us that “Faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. 2This is what the ancients were commended for.” Hebrews 11:1-2

Thank you for coming to support us as we are here to celebrate Bertha Isabel Bryant, a woman of great faith, who believed in the things not seen. She is now in the presence of the Lord, seeing everything she had hoped to one day see.

Isabel was born on April 27, 1925, in Grafton, West Virginia. She was the last of four children born to Russell and Bertha Cuppett. When she was very little and people would ask her her name, she couldn’t pronounce Isabel Cuppett. Instead she would say “I’m I-ball Cuppie.” She always giggled telling that story.

She spent her youth growing up in West Virginia where she would share how the winters were so very cold and how she never liked walking to school in the snow.

One of Isabel’s favorite childhood memories was the family trips to their grandparents’ farm with her two brothers and sister. There she was allowed to eat as many ears of corn as she could handle. On one visit as a young child, she ate nine ears of corn! Now keep in mind, farm corn then was much larger than what we purchase in the supermarket these days. Her love of corn on the cob lasted her lifetime.

Isabel graduated from Washington Irving High School in 1943, and she soon moved to Warren, Ohio, to work in a factory to help out with the war effort. While in Ohio, she continued to keep in touch with her best friend Helen’s big brother Jack who was serving in the Air Force over in Europe at the time. After the war, Isabel returned to Clarksburg, West Virginia, where she and Jack reunited. They were married on July 20, 1946.

Jack took a job with NCR, and the two moved to Parkersburg, West Virginia, where their daughter, Lynda, was born. Next it was on to Dayton, Ohio. Then in 1955 the company took them to El Centro, California. Trying to escape the heat, they tried to transfer to Los Angeles, but instead ended up in San Diego, California, where sons Kevin and Shaun were born. Isabel lived in the same house on Eames Street for 63 years before moving to Modesto, California, in January of 2021.

Isabel was very creative and good with her hands. She loved spending time with her family, and she especially liked going out to eat because it got her out of the kitchen where she spent so much of her time. Buffets and PF Changs were her favorites.

Bertha Isabel Bryant went home to be with the Lord on August 8, 2021, at the age of 96, in Modesto, California.

Isabel is preceded in death by her husband Jack, whom she was married to for 63 years, and her daughter, Lynda. She leaves behind two sons, Kevin and Shaun, nine grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. She will forever be missed and leaves behind a legacy of faith and love for us to carry on. Her strong Christian faith, her belief in the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, stand as an example for us all.