Amelia McAnally Luthe

Mrs. Amelia McAnally Luthe, 78, of Bolivar, departed this life Thursday afternoon, November 7, 2013 at Bolivar General Hospital.

The widow of John Robert Johns, who died in 1990 and Albert Luthe, who died in July of 2012, she worked as an accountant for the Federal Reserve Bank in Memphis until her retirement, at which point she then moved back to Hardeman County to work as a bookkeeper for Western Mental Health Institute. She was born February 21, 1935 in Hardeman County, daughter of the late Freddie Hall McAnally and Estelle Jones McAnally and lived in Memphis and Bolivar. She was an avid horsewoman, at one time owning and showing Tennessee Walking Horses. Mrs. Luthe loved dogs and cats and enjoyed coon hunting and fishing. She dearly loved her family and received joy out of helping other people over herself. She was a member of Parrans Chapel Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School and sang in the choir.

Survivors include two nephews, Thomas Hall McAnally and his wife, Susan, of Bolivar and William T. 'Billy' McAnally of Hornsby; two stepsons and their spouses, David and Melissa Luthe of Searcy, AR and Steve and Kim Luthe of Bolivar; a stepdaughter and her husband, Lynn and Billy Ridgway of Williston, TN; and several great nephews and great nieces, great great nieces and one great great nephew. In addition to her parents and her husbands, she was preceded in death by two sons, Robert Hall Johns and John Douglas Johns, and a brother, Freddie Javan McAnally. Memorials may be directed to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer, http://ww5.komen.org/Donate/Donate.html