Sandra "Sam" R. Meredith

Sandra Grace Rains Meredith, Sam, to her friends, left the bonds of this timely world Thursday night, June 25, 2020 at about 11:55 pm. She was born on July 9th, 1948 in West Memphis, Arkansas. Daughter of J.D. Rains and Mary Grace Busby Rains. She passed away from complications from a rare lung disorder and heart failure. She left behind her high school sweetheart who was her husband of nearly 53 years, Jimmy Doyle Meredith of Adamsville, Tn. They had two sons: Jimmy Doyle Meredith II of Portland, Maine and JD Clemon Lee Meredith of Adamsville, Tn. Four granddaughters: Presley Jean Meredith and Betty June Meredith of Portland, Maine and Leah-Grace Dalia Meredith and Alyse Valentina Meredith of Adamsville, Tn. Arrangements have been made at Shackelford Funeral Home in Savannah, Tn. for visitation on Saturday between the hours of 6 pm and 8 pm and at Waynesboro’s Shackelford funeral home on Sunday for burial service at 1 pm. Visitation will start at 12 noon. Afterward a procession from the funeral home to the final resting place for Sam which will be the Salem Primitive Baptist Church in the Old Topsy Store area at the mouth of 48 Creek and Buffalo River. As you all know with the Covid virus blooming again you may or may not feel like its safe for you to attend these services. The family knows who Sam’s friends are and have been and want you to know it is perfectly fine if you choose to not attend for this reason. The family plans a closed casket service but welcome all of Sam’s friends and family to come and celebrate her life.

Her Life:

Sam was the oldest daughter of family of 6 brothers and sisters. She was raised the daughter of a Southern Baptist Minister and moved several times during her childhood. She became a people loving person and spent her life doing things that made people happy. She became a cosmetologist when she graduated from high school and with that vocation put her husband Jim through four years of college. She then put her life toward raising 2 sons and taking care of her husband. She was involved in and lead several PTA organizations to improve and fund her children’s schools. She loved to cook for her family and was well at home in the kitchen whether making a 10 course thanksgiving dinner or whipping up a batch of homemade apple pies. She was an excellent seamstress, she honed her artistic skills at oil and water color painting and doing drawings for her family and loved ones. She became a ceramicist. She loved home decorating, planting lovely flowers, landscaping and even mowing her own yard. She took up golf and played quite well and was an especially accomplished putter. When her children were in college, Sam, had the desire to help the elderly so she became a Nursing Home Activities Director. Over her tenure she worked at three different nursing homes in two different states until moving to Tennessee with her husband where she retired. Sam never was one to sit idle for long and so in Tennessee she began her seamstress profession again only this time with embroidery designs and custom work. But in her later years the thing she preferred to do most was bream and cat fishing with her husband and friends. They spent many hours and days on Pickwick lake trying to determine who was the best fisherman or fisherwoman. As her granddaughters appeared on the seen she busied herself in pleasing them any way she could, maybe sometimes just simply talking to them heart to heart. Her clock finally wound down like all of ours will and her health problems became to great for her heart to support her weak body and now alas she has succumbed to her bodily weakness. But she lives on in our hearts and our minds and serves as a high ideal to all of us who knew her that things can be accomplished by just getting up and doing them. She had a love of people and a spirit to help that anyone that crossed her path will never forget. Rest in Heavenly Peace My Love and My Wife. I will see you not far down the path. Yours for Eternity: Jim Meredith