Sara LaVerne Hunter McCall Newbern, passed away on November 5, 2022 at Bedrock Nursing and Rehabilitation Nursing Center in Live Oak where she made her home the last several years. She was ninety-one.

She was born into the world as Sara LaVerne Hunter on December 29, 1930 to the late James Melvin "Jim" and Merle Hill Hunter.  Like most girls in that era, she attended school and worked whenever and wherever she was needed to help her parents make ends meet. It was in her mid-teens that a man named Norman Glenwood "Glen" McCall came to court her and the two married shortly thereafter in 1946. Over the next few years, she and Glen welcomed three beautiful daughters Martha, Susan and Gina and the son that carried the McCall family name for one more generation. As the children aged, LaVerne went to work as a bookkeeper. With four children, it would be safe to say that LaVerne had little time for hobbies, but in her quiet time she enjoyed crocheting. On May 2, 1988 Glen passed away. With the children mostly grown and grandchildren being born, LaVerne had to re-focus her attention and fill her time with new projects. She found true joy in spoiling her grandchildren. Oh yes, there was the work they had to endure. She put the children and grandchildren in the garden picking vegetables for canning and freezing but there would always be "Little Debbie's" and a drink waiting as a treat for those that really worked hard and maybe for some of those that just came to entertain their "Little Granny". She also let them help gather and help sale during her many yard sale adventures. In 1993, she met and married Vernie Carl Newbern and the two shared some good years together taking family trips to the mountains until his health began to fail and in 1999 LaVerne found herself a widow for a second time. This was a trying time, but it was made easier because by this time grandchildren filled her house with loud little voices and laughter. She was a good and faithful mother and grandmother and tried to expose her children and grandchildren to the word of God and offered them all of the tools they would need to become believers in Jesus Christ. They were raised in the church and she remained an active member at the First Presbyterian Church in Jasper as long as her health permitted. Now any one single person that knew LaVerne McCall Newbern, can testify, that given her faith, she is in heaven and that same person could and would most assuredly attest to the fact that when she arrived, if all was not "in order…according to her way of thinking", she immediately dispatched word to the angels. She was always known for saying exactly what she was thinking whether it hurt your feelings or not. Hurting someone was never her intent but why would she behave in heaven any other way than being the outspoken woman we knew and loved here on earth. She joins in heaven those that predeceased her: husbands, Glen McCall and Carl Newbern; parents, Jim and Merle Hunter; brothers, Edwin L. Hunter and Carroll W. Hunter; sisters, Wanna H. Hendershot and Diane H. Carter; her grandson, Garrett Blanton and her great granddaughter, April McDonald Lee.

Survivors include her daughter, Martha Ard of Jasper, FL., her son, Norman McCall, Jr. and his wife Cheryl of Jennings, FL., and her daughters, Susan Johnson of Jennings, FL. and Gina Williams and her husband Richard of Ft. Walton Beach, FL.; also surviving are those nine grandchildren that made her "Little Granny", Robbi Ard Snipes (Keith), Roxanne Perez Eddy (Chris), Amy McCall Church (Dave), Mindy McCall Pulliam (Frank), Andres Perez, Renee Perez Byrd (Jamie), Christie McDonald Atkins (Jeffrey), Bryan McDonald and Alyssa Blanton; eighteen great grandchildren and ten great-great grandchildren.

Graveside services were held on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at Evergreen Cemetery with Rev. Harry Horne officiating.

Memorial contributions may be made to First Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 329 Jasper, FL. 32052.