Obituary Listing

Mar 25, 2008

Funeral services for William Hubert (Bill) Fortner, age 70, of Florence, AL will be Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 3 pm at Shackelford Funeral Home Chapel in Collinwood, TN with David Ruslow and Wes Gurley officiating. Burial with military rites will be in Railroad Cemetery, Iron City, TN, with Shackelford Funeral Directors of Wayne County directing. Visitation will be Thursday,...

Mar 24, 2008

Mr. John Thomas "Tom" Perry, 71, of Whiteville died March 24, 2008 at Methodist Fayette Hospital, Somerville after a brief illness. Mr. Perry was born July 19, 1936 in the Fayette Corner community. He is survived by a brother Richard" Jerry" Perry and wife Bettye, his sister-in-law, Sharon Perry, a niece and two nephews. He was preceded in death by...

Mar 23, 2008

She was born and reared on the Benson farm near Reagan, the daughter of the late Evans V. and Lena Tidwell Benson. She went to school at Centerpoint and Milledgeville. She was married to James M. Cherry in 1945. They made their home in Memphis, where she worked in light bulb production at the General Electric Lamp Plant. She retired...

Mar 23, 2008

Funeral services for Bert Walker, age 95, of Waynesboro,TN will be on Thursday, March 27, 2008, 1:00 pm Shackelford Funeral Home, Waynesboro, TN with Marvin Champion officiating. Interment following in Philadelphia Cemetery, Waynesboro with Shackelford Funeral Directors of Wayne County in charge of the arrangements.Visitation will be on Wednesday, March 26 from 5:00-9:00 pm and on Thursday, March 27 from...

Mar 23, 2008

Funeral services for George Roscoe Butler, age 83, of Collinwood, TN will be on Tuesday March 25, 2008, 1:00 pm Cromwell Crossroads Church, Collinwood, TN with Greg Eaton, officiating. Interment following in Cromwell Crossroads Church Cemetery, Collinwood, TN with Shackelford Funeral Directors of Wayne County in charge of the arrangements.Visitation will be on Monday March, 24, 2008, 6:00—9:00pm Shackelford Funeral...

Mar 23, 2008

Mar 22, 2008

Memorial services for David Hugh Dunbar, age 77 of Waynesboro will be 11:00 am Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at Shackelford Chapel in Waynesboro, TN with Cal Hampton officiating. His remains were cremated.Mr. Dunbar, a native of Detroit, Michigan, died on Saturday, March 22, 2008 at his home. He was a son of the late Willard Carr Dunbar and Ester Mae...

Mar 21, 2008

Graveside services for James Curtis Seltzer will be Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 1 pm at Prater’s Chapel Cemetery, Clifton, TN with Randall Runions officiating and Shackelford Funeral Directors of Wayne County directing. He died at Alive Hospice in Nashville, TN on Friday, March 21, 2008.Mr. Seltzer was a retired chief engineer of a towboat and was of the Baptist...

Mar 20, 2008

Mary Ruth Barnes Howard was born June 10, 1921 in McNairy County, Tennessee the daughter of the late Rufus S. and Minnie Wood Barnes.She was united in marriage to Raymond Howard on April 12, 1944. Mr. Howard preceded her in death on Novmeber 7, 2003.Mrs. Howard was a housewife . She was a member of the Lebanon United Methodist Church...

Mar 19, 2008

Rachel Joyner of Bethel Springs, Tennessee, was born on May 14, 1935, to the late LeRoy Smith and Lora Luttrell Smith. She was a homemaker.Mrs. Joyner was a member of the Pentecostals of Bethel Springs. She participated in the "Busy Bees Quilting Club" at the church. Mrs. Joyner died on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, at Jackson Madison County General Hospital...

Mar 19, 2008

She was born and reared in Decatur County, the daughter of the late John Horace and Cassie Candice Douglas Spence. She attended school in Decatur County. In 1931 she was married to Carl Garrett, they made their home near Enville. He died in the 50's. She was married to Everett Williams and he passed away, she married Hooper Massey and...

Mar 19, 2008

She was born and reared in Kerrville, TN the daughter of the late Benjamin Eldred and Ruby Jane Overall DuBose. She went to school in Millington, TN. She moved to Henderson in 1958. She married Raymond Whitten in 1958 and he passed away in 1969. She married Wylie Johnson in 1974 and he passed away in 1991. She worked as...

Mar 19, 2008

Mar 19, 2008

Blanche Eleanor Whitewas born in Hardin County, Tennessee on May 14, 1910, the daughter of the late Edward M. and Lillie Gillis White.Ms. White was a homemaker and loved to sew. She was a member of the East End Methodist Church.Ms. White departed this life on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at the age of 97 years, 10 months, 5 days.She...

Mar 19, 2008

"Buddy" Glynn Dale Keymonwas born in Decatur County, Tennessee on April 23, 1947, the son of the late J.C. and Delta Inman Keymon.Mr. Keymon lived most of his life in Braidwood, Illinois. He was an Army veteran and a member of the Teamsters Union Local 179 out of Joliet, Illinois.He worked in waste management before retiring.Mr. Keymon departed this life...

Mar 19, 2008

Graveside services for Cheyenne Elizabeth Skillern, infant daughter of Terra Elizabeth Stricklin and Terry A. Skillern, Jr., of Collinwood, TN will be Friday, March 21, 2008 at 1 pm at McGlamery Cemetery, Collinwood, with Andy Sherrill officiating with Shackelford Funeral Directors of Wayne County directing. Cheyenne was born and died at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, TN on Wednesday, March 19,...

Mar 19, 2008

Mrs. Parham, former long-time resident of Grand Junction, died Wednesday night at NHC Nursing Home in Knoxville.She was the widow of Charles Benjamin Parham, Sr., who died January 20, 1961. The daughter of the late Taylor and Lena Lowe McLeren Rogers, she was Sunday School Superintendent of the Children's Department of the Grand Junction First United Methodist Church for 60...

Mar 18, 2008

Mr. Watson died Tuesday at Germantown Methodist Hospital.The son of the late Frank Edward and Julia Bennett Watson, he lived 33 years in Belzoni, MS where he was employed by John Deere Tractor. He retired in 1984 and had lived in Byhalia, MS 13 years. On August 5, 1953, he married Rosie Lee Turner and she survives.Other family included a...

Mar 18, 2008

HAROLD EUGENE JACKSONwas born in Rector, Arkansas on September 11, 1933 the son of the late Earl Lee Jackson and Bertha Huffstutler Jackson Alders.On March 8, 1958 he was united in marriage to the former Virginia Ruth Brown, who survives.Mr. Jackson was a truck driver for Trucks, Incorporated in Conley, Georgia. He was a United States Army Veteran, stationed in...

Mar 17, 2008

MONEDITH COPELANDwas born in Hardin County, Tennessee on December 26, 1926 the daughter of the late Leonard Martin and Mamie Elizabeth Copeland Tilley.On October 21, 1947 she was united in marriage to Robert L. Copeland, who preceded his wife in death on October 12, 2004.Mrs. Copeland was a homemaker. She was a member of Turkey Creek Union Church. Mrs. Copeland...