Cletus E. Cooksey
Dec 21, 2013
Cletus E. Cooksey of Adamsville, TN was born July 3, 1927 the son of the late Samuel Lacy Franklin Cooksey and Jessie Hollingsworth Cooksey. Mr. Cooksey departed this life on December 21, 2013 in Savannah, Tennessee at the age of 86 Years, 5 Months, 18 Days.He was united in marriage to Faye M. Smith on November 20, 1948. Mrs. Cooksey...
Louise Pickens
Dec 21, 2013
Louise (Mama Lou) Pickens was born on January 20, 1929, the daughter of the late Luther Pope and Mamie Terry Parrish. On April 30, 1949, she was united in marriage to J. C. Pickens, who preceded her in death on May 21, 2010.Mrs. Pickens worked for the Brown Shoe Company and the Dollar General Store and later was the owner...
Melvin Clyde Hines
Dec 20, 2013
Melvin Clyde Hines was born January 29, 1927 in Selmer, TN, the son of the late Andrew Jackson and Eva Ballard Hines.He was united in marriage to Oletia Reed on September 4, 1958.Mr. Hines was retired from ICG Railroad after 45 years of service. He enjoyed his family, golfing and fishing. He was a member of the Selmer Country Club...
Robbie Morris Smith
Dec 20, 2013
Robbie Morris Smith was born July 8, 1915 in Waynesboro, TN the daughter of the late Roy and Sarah Jane Butler Morris. Mrs. Smith died Friday, December 20, 2013 at Wayne Care Nursing Home in Waynesboro at the age of 98 Years, 5 Months, 12 Days. Mrs. Smith was married to Louis Allen Smith, September 29, 1939 and he preceded...
Robbie Bowling
Dec 20, 2013
Robbie Bowling departed this life on Friday, December 20, 2013, at the age of 85 years, 1 month, 25 days.Robbie was born in Hardin County, Tennessee on October 25, 1928, the daughter of the late Marion Eugene and Mamie Sparks Adams. On April 16, 1949, she was united in marriage to Frank Lee Bowling, who preceded her in death on...
Rebecca Lynn Jones Guerrero
Dec 20, 2013
Rebecca Lynn Jones Guerrero was born June 4, 1961 in Wayne County, TN the daughter of Christine Thrasher Staggs of Collinwood and the late Frank Jones. She died Friday, December 20, 2013 at her home in Collinwood, Tennessee at the age of 52 Years, 6 Months, 16 Days. She was a homemaker.Other than her mother, she is survived by a...
Billy Joe King
Dec 19, 2013
Billy Joe King was born June 8, 1959 in Selmer, TN the son of the late Alva Everett and Alline Leatherwood King.He was united in marriage to Tina Baggett on April 28, 1981. Mr. King was a truck driver. He was Baptist in faith. Some of his favorite pastimes were; fishing, riding four-wheelers, working on chain saws, watching westerns, spending...
William Ray Price
Dec 19, 2013
William Ray Price was born October 27, 1945 in Corinth, MS the son of the late Robert Grady and Mary Ellen Norcross Price.Mr. Price was a brick mason. He was a member of the Trinity Baptist Church in Michie, Tennessee. Some of his favorite pastimes were playing his guitar, sight seeing, and spending time with his dog Precious.Mr. Price departed...
Andy Wayford Robertson
Dec 18, 2013
Andy Wayford (Mutt) Robertson was born February 7, 1926 in Iron City, TN. the son of the late James Marshall and Fannie Artimess Daniel Robertson. He was united in marriage to Clura Dean Daniel on January 5, 1947. Mr. Robertson was a retired farmer and factory worker, a member of the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Iron City, Tennessee, and...
Lillie Ann Hayslett
Dec 18, 2013
Lillie Ann Hunt Hayslett of Selmer, TN was born April 14, 1944 to John E. and Rosie Lee Brown Hunt in Corinth, MS. She departed this life on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at Jackson Madison County General Hospital in Jackson, TN.Preceding her in death were her husband, George Franklin Hayslett, Sr,; maternal grandparents, Solon Brown and Annie Lee Jenkins; two...
Malcolm T. Watkins
Dec 18, 2013
Mr. Malcolm T. Watkins, age 87 of Hickory Valley, Tennessee departed this life Wednesday night, December 18, 2013 at Pine Meadows Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center.A lifelong resident of Hardeman County, Mr. Watkins was born April 8, 1926 to the late Barney Wilford and Nicey Maude Shearon Watkins. He served in the United States Navy as a Seabee during World War...
Marjorie Kirksey Stallings
Dec 17, 2013
Mrs. Marjorie Kirksey Stallings, age 95 of Bolivar, Tennessee, passed from this life Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.A native of Hardeman County, Mrs. Stallings was born in Toone, Tennessee June 17, 1918 to the late John Lewis and Cornelia Yarbrough Keller. She was a homemaker and portrait artist with Moore Studio in Jackson. She also attended...
Glenda Morris
Dec 17, 2013
GLENDA MORRISwas born in Morris Chapel, Tennessee on July 28, 1938 the daughter of the late Benjamin Franklin and Meda Morris Jarrett.On March 8, 1958 she was united in marriage to Mackey Edwin Morris, who preceded his wife in death on October 28, 1999.Mrs. Morris was a machine operator for 15 years for Angelica Manufacturing. She also had worked for...
Elloy Sims Nowlin
Dec 16, 2013
Elloy Sims Nowlin of Waynesboro, TN was born July 10, 1937 in Wayne Co., TN, the daughter of the late William G. and Fannie Gaylor Sims. She was united in marriage to Eunice Nowlin on November 1, 1952. Mrs. Nowlin was a loving stay-at-home mother and wife taking care of the farm. She was a member of the Philadelphia Baptist...
George Gilbert Cotner
Dec 16, 2013
George Gilbert Cotner was born February 26, 1941 in Stantonville, TN the son of the late Theodore and Sara Artie Flatt Cotner.Mr. Cotner worked as a janitor for many years at the Adamsville City Hall and Dr. Jim Yancey's office. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Adamsville, TN.George was known in Adamsville and surrounding communities because...
James M. Garey
Dec 16, 2013
Jackson,TN-James (Jim) McDougal Garey passed away at the age of 89 on Monday, December 16, 2013, after a courageous battle with cancer. Jim was born in the Hookers Bend Community of Hardin, Co. Tennessee on July 4, 1924. He was the seventh and youngest child of William Roscoe and Mary McDougal Garey. He spent his early years on their farm,...
Hershel Shands
Dec 16, 2013
Hershel Shands was born on February 19, 1931, the son of the late William Hermon and Caroline Barrier Shands. On June 29, 1963, he was united in marriage to Virginia Nell Brown, who preceded him in death on October 19, 2004.Mr. Shands was a resident of the Walnut Grove Community for over seventy five years. He was employed for thirty...
Gladys Burns Baker
Dec 16, 2013
Gladys Ethel Baker departed this life on Monday, December 16, 2013, at the age of 89 years, 11 months, 28 days.Gladys was born in Wayne County, Tennessee on December 18, 1923, the daughter of the late Archie R. and Ollie Adkisson Burns. On December 26, 1952, she was united in marriage to Robert Morris Baker, who preceded her in death...
Malcolm Lambert
Dec 16, 2013
Malcolm Lambert was born June 12, 1932 in Chester County, TN the son of the late William Royce and Frankie Wilma Russom Lambert.He was married to Dottie Mae Ferguson Lambert for 40 years, she passed away on July 25, 1995. On February 21, 1998, he married Marie Kirk Long.Mr. Lambert was a machinist for Brown Shoe Company for 37 years....
Bethanne Brewer
Dec 16, 2013
Bethanne Hunt Brewer of Waynesboro, TN was born December 2, 1969 in Waynesboro, TN, the daughter of Jerry Wayne Hunt and the late Donna Eileen Rowan Hunt. She was united in marriage to Kenny Lane Brewer on August 5, 1989.Mrs. Brewer was a licensed dispensing Optician Manager at Walmart Vision Center in Savannah, TN and was a member of the...
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