Dorothy King
Dec 19, 2009
DOROTHY PENDLEY KINGwas born in Hardin County on June 8, 1927 the daughter of the late James Forrest and Fleetie Browder Pendley.She was united in marriage to Billy Frank King, who preceded his wife in death. Mrs. King was a homemaker and was a member of Oak Hill Christian Church. She departed this life on December 19, 2009 in Jackson,...
Lois Kennedy
Dec 18, 2009
Lois Black Kennedy, 79, of Bolivar, passed away Friday, December 18, 2009 at Bolivar General Hospital.The wife of J.W. Kennedy, who survives, she was a homemaker. She was born May 18, 1930 to the late Homer Black and Fannie Robinson Black. She was a member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church and previously lived in Savannah.In addition to her husband, who she...
Barbara Jean Sims
Dec 18, 2009
Barbara Jean Tilley Sims of Collinwood, TN was born September 10, 1957 in Hardin Co., Tennessee, the daughter of Geneva Iva Jay Wright Tilley of Collinwood, TN who survives and the late Leamon Tilley. She was a homemaker .Mrs. Sims departed this life on Friday, December 18, 2009 at Maury Regional Hospital in Columbia, Tennessee at the age of 52...
William Glenn Vanhoose
Dec 18, 2009
William Glen Vanhoosewas born in Hardin County, Tennessee on July 10, 1948 the son of the late John Thomas and Edna Earl Falls Vanhoose.Mr. Vanhoose was enlisted with the United States Navy for 4 years and served in Vietnam. He worked as a river boat pilot before he retired.Mr. Vanhoose departed this life on Friday, December 18, 2009 at the...
Arnold Ray Hunt
Dec 18, 2009
Arnold Ray Hunt was born April 13, 1930 in Waynesboro, Tennessee, the son of the late Cicero Buchanan and Zada Priscilla Nutt Hunt. He was united in marriage to Grace Estella Prince on September 26, 1948 and she preceded him in death on November 13, 2006.Mr. Hunt was a retired from the Tennessee Department of Transportation Highway Maintenance after 20...
Richard Elden Smeltser
Dec 18, 2009
Mr. Smeltser passed away Friday, December 18, 2009. He was born in Alexandria, MO on February 17, 1923. He was a wonderful husband of 67 years and devoted father, grandfather and great grandfather. He has been a resident at Ave Maria Assisted Living for the past year, and for a short time at Pine Meadows Healthcare in Bolivar. Prior to...
Billy Joe Qualls
Dec 18, 2009
Billy Joe Quallswas born in Hardin County, Tennessee on January 22, 1937 the son of the late Jesse Carroll and Ethel Kenneth Hunt Qualls.Mr. Qualls had lived in Hardin County all of his life. He had worked for Gross and James Handle Mill and Paris Gun Factory. He liked to garden, loved music and wood working. He was a member...
Joe Frank Phillips
Dec 18, 2009
Joe Frank Phillipswas born in Crump, Tennessee on December 18, 2009 the son of the late Hershel Perkins and Hassie Shelton Phillips.On July 28, 1984 he was united in marriage to Donella Stanford, who survives.Mr. Phillips had worked at Garan Manufacturing for 36 years, he was a Shipping Supervisor. He lived in Crump all of his life and was a...
Muriel J. West
Dec 18, 2009
Mrs. West died Friday night at Pleasant View Healthcare in Bolivar. A native and life-long resident of Hardeman County, Mrs.West was the daughter of the late John and Sarah Pipkin Doyle. She married U. D. West, Jr. on July 19, 1947 and he passed away on December 22, 1998. A member of Hebron Baptist Church, she retired in 1994 as...
Robbie June Hickerson
Dec 17, 2009
Graveside Service will be held on Monday, December 21, 2009, 1:00 pm at Memorial Gardens in Waynesboro, Tennessee with Robert Huffaker officiating. Shackelford Funeral Directors of Wayne County in charge of the arrangements.Visitation will be on Sunday, Dec. 20, 6:00-9:00 pm and on Monday, Dec. 21, 8:00 am until 12:30 pm at Shackelford Funeral Home Chapel, Waynesboro,TNMrs. Hickerson departed this...
Dennis Hall Latham
Dec 17, 2009
Beech Bluff, TN: Dennis Hall Latham, Jr., age 75, passed away December 17, 2009 at Jackson Madison County General Hospital.Mr. Latham was born and reared in Chester County, the New Friendship Community, the son of the late Dennis Hall Latham, Sr. and Vivian Wall Latham. He graduated from Chester County High School in 1952 and attended West Tennessee Business College....
James H. Graves
Dec 17, 2009
JAMES H. ‘BUSTER’ GRAVES Henderson, TN: James H. ‘Buster’ Graves, age 90, died Wednesday night at Tri-County Healthcare in Adamsville.Mr. Graves was born in Trenton, TN and reared in Trenton, Blytheville, AR, and Chester County, TN. He was the son of the late Joseph Harmon and Viola Scott Graves. He went to school in Blytheville, Pinson, and Chester County High...
Thelda Gladys Smith
Dec 17, 2009
Thelda Gladys Cromwell Smith was born March 27, 1917, in Hardin County, Tennessee , near New Harmony Church in the Cerro Gordo community. She died December 17, 2009, at Hardin Medical Center in Savannah. She was the daughter of John William Cromwell and Sarah Celestie Meadors Cromwell, who preceded her in death.On January 17, 1945, she was united in marriage...
Nancy Cole
Dec 17, 2009
Mrs. Cole passed away Thursday, December 17, 2009 at Haven Hospice in Chiefland, Florida.Nancy was born November 8, 1938 in Hornsby, Tennessee to Lida and Clay Lambert.Nancy was the owner of Mid-American Auto Racing News for over 38 years with her late husband Phillip Cole, who preceded her in death. Together they spent many years traveling to area race tracks...
Allie Highers
Dec 17, 2009
ALLIE HIGHERSHenderson, TN: Allie Faire Jenkins Highers, age 102, passed away December 17, 2009 at the Chester County Healthcare.She was born and reared in Hoffman, OK the daughter of the late Robert and Susan Benefield Jenkins. She attended schools in Hitchita, OK. She was married to Ernest E. Highers in 1934. Mr. Highers was a Church of Christ Minister, and...
Brenda Kay Inman
Dec 16, 2009
Services will be held on Friday, December 18, 2009 at 1:00 PM at Shackelford Funeral Home, in Waynesboro , Tennessee, with John Blackwell officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Gardens , Waynesboro, Tennesseewith Shackelford Funeral Directors of Wayne County in charge of the arrangements.Vistiation will be on Thursday, Dec. 17, 5:30--9:00 pm and on Friday, Dec. 18, 8:00 am until...
Billy Ross
Dec 16, 2009
Billy (Stan) Rosswas born in Hardin County, Tennessee on September 12, 1953 the son of Billy Joe Ross of Savannah, Tennessee and Ada Victoria Heard Ross Martin of Maryville, Indiana.Mr. Ross had worked at PCA as a paper machine operator and for the City of Savannah as a meter reader. He was a member and served as an usher of...
Judy Hunt
Dec 16, 2009
JUDY HUNTAdamsville, TN: Naomi “Judy†Hunt, age 86 passed away December 16, 2009 at her home in Adamsville.She was born in Oxford, AR and grew up in Drumright, OK the daughter of the late Frank and Effie Rowden Erwin. She graduated high school in Drumright, OK and in 1947 she was married to Will Lee “Bill†Hunt and they made...
Melba Weaver McCullough
Dec 16, 2009
Melba Weaver McCulloughwas born in Hardin County, Tennessee on October 11, 1924 the daughter of the late Ethel and Grace Sipes Singleton.Mrs. McCullough lived in the Milledgeville area most of her life and was a hairdresser there from 1961 until 1985. She was a member of the Milledgeville United Methodist Church, Cosmetology Group, Ruritan Club of Milledgeville, and an active...
Frankie S. Keller
Dec 16, 2009
Frankie S. Keller, 94, of Bolivar, passed away Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis.She was born June 5, 1915, in Hardeman County, daughter of the late Joseph Nelson and Florence Butler Shearon, the sixth of nine children. She married Paul B. Keller on March 8, 1940, and he preceded her in death on January 17, 2005....
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