Bertha Lee Thornton
Jul 21, 2009
Bertha Lee Thornton, age 81 of Bolivar, passed from this life Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.She was born March 25, 1928 in Toone, Tennessee to the late Ernest and Mae Ella Sipes Brooks. She was a lifelong resident of Hardeman County, a housewife and a member of the Church of God.She leaves as her survivors two...
Andrew T. Lawson
Jul 21, 2009
Andrew T. Lawson was born October 16, 1922 in Ramer, Tennessee the son of the late Andrew Benton and Hattie Lee Burress Lawson.He was united in marriage to Norma Weeks on July 21, 1951.Mr. Lawson worked for Brown Shoes Company and was a lifelong Farmer. He was a charter member of Ramer Ruritan Club, lifelong member of Culmberland Presbyterian Church...
Danny Eugene Tillmon
Jul 21, 2009
Mr. Danny Eugene Tillmon, age 42 of Bolivar, passed from this life Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at the Med in Memphis.He was born December 23, 1966 in Hardeman County, TN to Elizabeth Ann Nelms Tillmon of Bolivar and the late James Richard Tillmon. He graduated with the Bolivar Central High School class of 1985 and worked as a contract logger...
Betty Joyce Milam
Jul 21, 2009
Betty Joyce Milam was born April 30, 1930 in Tresvant, Tennessee the daughter of the late Davis Amo and Mary (Kate) Catherine Bellew Milam.Miss Milam was a member of the Refuge church of Christ. She loved to be with family and friends, and enjoyed working in her yard and taking care of her cats. Miss Milam departed this life on...
F. R. Jenkins
Jul 21, 2009
F. R. Jenkins was born February 14, 1933 in Hardin County, Tennessee the son of the late Thomas Henry and Mary Hazel Wood Jenkins.He was united in marriage to Charlene Parrish on November 1, 1952.Mr. Jenkins was an owner and operator of Jenkins Construction in Selmer and J and J Campground in Pickwick. He was a member of the Center...
Ruby Pearl Lynn
Jul 21, 2009
Ruby Pearl Simmons Lynn was born October 14, 1926 in Waynesboro, Tennessee, the daughter of the late Ruebin Jefferson and Pearl Bundie Griggs Simmons. She was united in marriage to James Thomas Lynn Sr. on June 2, 1944.Mrs. Lynn was a factory worker and homemaker and was of the Protestant faith. Mrs. Lynn departed this life on Tuesday, July 21,...
Treva Harrison
Jul 20, 2009
Treva Harrison was born July 16, 1944 in Hardin County, Tennessee the daughter of the late Robert Lee and Lillian Beckham Jones.On December 23, 1960 she was united in marriage to Joe Morris Harrison, who survives.Mrs. Harrison had worked as a nurse at Hardin Medical Center for 23 years before retiring. She loved her grand kids, her dogs and spending...
Ewing H. Adkins
Jul 20, 2009
Ewing H. (Skeet) Adkins was born March 18, 1925 in Montgomery County, Tennessee the son of the late Charles and Mai Bryant Adkins.He was united in marriage to Katheryn Littlejohn on January 1, 1989."Skeet" was a heavy equipment mechanic who ran the McNairy County Garage under former Road Commissioner Odis Matlock and was a retired truck driver for East-West Motor...
Roberta McCasland
Jul 20, 2009
ROBERTA MCCASLANDwas born in Hardin County, Tennessee on July 5, 1910 the daughter of the late Benjamin Norris and Sarah Wade Duke.On September 6, 1930 she was united in marriage to Melrose McCasland, who preceded his wife in death on August 9, 1983.Mrs. McCasland was a member of Fairview Heights Church of Christ where she was a bible school teacher...
Wendy Lowrance
Jul 19, 2009
Wendy Lowrancewas born in Pocahontas, Tennessee on June 1, 1924 the daughter of the late Charles Howard and Lucy Ward Carr.In May of 1940 she was united in marriage to Howard Lowrance, who preceded his wife in death in October of 1974.Mrs. Lowrance retired in 1986 as a teacher for the Hardin County School System. She was a member of...
Nell Ross
Jul 19, 2009
Memphis, TN: Edna Nell Acree Ross, age 84, died July 19, 2009 at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis.She was born at Toone, TN the daughter of the late Robert Allen and Nannie Emma Vernon Acree. She attended schools at Toone. She was married to Paul Ross and they made their home in Jackson. Mr. Ross preceded in death. She made...
Jerry Don Barber
Jul 19, 2009
Jerry Don Barber, Sr., died Sunday July 19, 2009, in Jackson, Tennessee, at the age of 64 years, 8 months, and 14 days.He was born November 5, 1944, to Wilma Tedford Barber of Stantonville, Tennessee, and the late Dennie Barber. He was a carpenter and a member of West Shiloh Baptist Church. Survivors are his wife of 30 years, Ruth...
Hilda Jane Heathcock Brown
Jul 19, 2009
Hilda Jane Heathcock Brown Hilda Jane Heathcock Brown, age 81, died July 19, 2009 at her home.She was born in Hohenwald, TN and raised in Lawrenceburg, the daughter of the late James Richard and Etha Bell Appleton Woodward. She was married to Robert L. Heathcock in 1944. He preceded her in death in 1951. She later married Guy Brown in...
Polly Juanita Morris
Jul 19, 2009
Polly Juanita McDowell Morris 72, formerly of Collinwood, TN and Benton, TN passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 19th, 2009 at the Wayne County Nursing Home in Waynesboro, TN with her family at her bedside.Mrs. Morris was the daughter of the late Theodore McDowell and Gladys Arp McDowell of Polk County, TN where she was born in 1937 in the...
Samuel Wright Shaw
Jul 19, 2009
Samuel Wright Shawwas born in Savannah, Tennessee on October 9, 1965 the son of Lillian Stover Shaw and the late David Paulk Shaw.Mr. Shaw was a Parole Officer with the State of Tennessee. He was a member of the fraternity house Acacia and attended First Cumberland Presbyterian Church.Mr. Shaw departed this life on Sunday, July 19, 2009 at the age...
Derral Glynn Box
Jul 18, 2009
Mr. Box passed away Saturday morning at Bolivar General Hospital.The husband of Gina DeBerry Box, who survives, he was a truck driver for 19 years, most recently working for Transco Lines out of Russellville, Arkansas. He was born to Joan Killingsworth Box McLeod of Memphis and the late Paul J. Box, who died in 2002, and lived in Memphis until...
Angela M. Suggs
Jul 18, 2009
Angela M. Suggs was born September 13, 1981 in Panama City, Florida the daughter of Jerry Massengill and Rhonda Burcham.Ms. Suggs departed this life on July 18, 2009 in Guys, Tennessee at the age of 27 Years, 10 Months, 5 Days. She is survived by a daughter, Lexi Suggs and her father, Michael Suggs both of Selmer, TN; father, Jerry...
Henry Cupples
Jul 18, 2009
Henderson: Charlie Henry Cupples, age 86, retired farmer and residential homebuilder, died Saturday at his home in Chester County.Mr. Cupples was born and reared in Chester County, the son of the late Pleasant Jasper and Mary Louella Jones Cupples. He farmed in the Wilson School Community all of his life. He was married to Bessie Davis of the Wilson School...
Marie Mills
Jul 17, 2009
MARIE HARRIS MILLSwas born in Hardin County, Tennessee on March 4, 1916 the daughter of the late J. W. and Alafaire Durbin Harris.On August 13, 1932 she was united in marriage to Glenn Andrew Mills, who preceded his wife in death on February 25, 1992.Mrs. Mills was a nurse. She was a member of First United Methodist Church.Mrs. Mills departed...
Billy Gene Stinson
Jul 17, 2009
Mr. Billy Gene Stinson, 78, passed away Friday evening, July 17 at Bolivar General Hospital. Born December 26, 1930, in Fairview, TN to Robert Green and Lora Mai Lankford Stinson, he married Patsy Majors October 14, 2006. His first wife, Maggie Ervin Stinson, passed away in 2005 after fifty years of marriage. Mr. Stinson was stationed in Alaska while serving...
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