Ms. Rebecca Ann Tiner, 65 of Fernandina Beach, Fla., passed away Wednesday morning, June 21, 2017, at her residence.
She was born March 31, 1952 in Fernandina Beach and has been a life-long resident of the area.
Ms. Tiner was a member of the 1970 graduating class of Fernandina Beach High School and completed her registered nursing degree under the FJC nursing program. Over her nursing career, she was employed by Shands Hospital, Nassau General Hospital, Baptist Medical Center Nassau, Baptist Downtown and several hospitals in the Folkston, Ga. area, working in many different capacities including nurse manager.
Ms. Tiner loved being a caretaker. She loved being a nurse. She loved being a mother and grandmother. She also enjoyed knitting, embroidering and other crafts.
She was predeceased by her grandparents, Gerritt Van and Naomi Estelle Swearingen.
Survivors include her five children, Kimberly Spruill, Jennifer Digregorio, Carrie Everett, Jeffrey D. Tiner, and Bobby Tiner; her mother, Elizabeth Matta; brothers, Samuel Swearingen and Gary Swearingen; fifteen grandchildren, Christopher Spruill, Derrica Spruill, Jordan Williams, Samantha Sturges, Hannah Coakley, Logan Weeks, David Noah Sturges, Grace Weeks, Dominic Digregorio, Isabell Sturges, Natalie Digregorio, Emma Everett, Alysia Everett, Lavonte Everett and Hudson Sellek Everett; and the father of her children, James Wayne Tiner.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 24, in the Stephens Chapel at Green Pine Funeral Home with Pastor Ron Steedley officiating. Interment will follow in Hughes Cemetery.
To honor Ms. Tiner's life-long love of caretaking, the family requests that, throughout the course of your day, you commit a caring act for another person.
To sign Ms. Tiner's online register book, please visit the Green Pine website at www.greenpinefuneral.com.
Green Pine Funeral Home.