Helen P. Bryant
Aug 23, 2013
Mrs. Helen P. Bryant of Bolivar, passed from this life Friday afternoon while a resident at Pine Meadows Rehabilitation and Convalescent Center, at the age of 90 years, 10 months and 19 days.Born Wednesday, October 4, 1922 to the late Jack and Willie Pipkin McKee in Middleton, TN, she was a homemaker. She was married February 21, 1938 to Johnnie...
David (Nub) Creasy
Aug 23, 2013
David (Nub) Creasy was born on November 8, 1965 in Hardin County, TN, the son of the late Billy and McNeva Ponds Creasy. On August 19, 1985, he was united in marriage to Cathy Lynn Pinson, who survives.David had worked as a painter for Monotec and had lived in Hardin County for most of his life and was of the...
Robert D. Wilbanks
Aug 22, 2013
Robert D. Wilbanks of Lutts, TN was born June 6, 1937 in Martin's Mill, TN, a son of the late Charlie and Willie Frankie Rich Wilbanks. He was united in marriage to Reba Nell Stricklin on March 3, 1957.Mr. Wilbanks worked with the Stylon Corporation in Florence, AL for 17 years then owned and operated Wilbanks Auto Service until retirement...
Joe Allen Foster
Aug 22, 2013
Joe Allen Foster was born April 19, 1943 in Hornsby, TN, the son of the late William Paul and Ottie Mae Cox Foster.Mr. Foster was united in marriage to Barbara Knight on August 17, 1963. He was a member of the Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in Bethel Springs, Tennessee. He loved driving a school bus for the McNairy County School...
Nancy Keele Wilkerson
Aug 22, 2013
Nancy Keele Wilkerson was born on April 22, 1918, in Hardin County to the late John Henry and Minnie Lizzie Beth Shuburg Brown.She was united in marriage to John Keele in 1935, and he preceded her in death on January 19, 1974. She was united in marriage to Dillon Wilkerson on March 9, 1977, and he preceded her in death...
Dorothy Burnett
Aug 21, 2013
Mrs. Dorothy M. Burnett, age 91 of Toone, departed this life Wednesday afternoon, August 21, 2013 at Henderson Health and Rehabilitation Center in Henderson, TN.A lifelong native of Hardeman County, she was born to the late Albert and Velma Henson Pirtle September 29, 1921. On July 4, 1936, she was united in marriage to Duetroe Burnett who preceded her in...
A. E. Smith
Aug 21, 2013
Mr. A. E. Smith, Jr., age 85 of Toone, departed this life Wednesday morning, August 21, 2013 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.Mr. Smith was born in Finger, Tennessee Sunday, March 18, 1928 to the late Ambrose E. and Iva Myrtle Ervin Smith. Two years later, his family moved to Toone, where he lived most of the rest of his life....
Raymond Kruml
Aug 21, 2013
Raymond Kruml of Hornsby, died August 21, 2013 at the age of 76 years, 2 months, and 10 days at Bolivar General Hospital.Mr. Kruml was born Friday, June, 11, 1937 to Raymond Patrick and Loretta Tuttle Kruml in Chicago, IL where he lived most of his life. He was a commercial painter and decorator, had worked for Walgreens and the...
Norman L. McVay
Aug 21, 2013
Norman McVay was born December 7, 1940 in Henderson, TN the son of the late Carl T and Eula McCann McVay.Mr. McVay was a retired police officer having served on the Bethel Springs Police Department. Some of his favorite pastimes were watching the St. Louis Cardinals play baseball, collecting baseball cards, playing dominoes, playing checkers, and loved spending time with...
Mary Thomas
Aug 20, 2013
MARY THOMASHenderson, TN: Mary Ruth Thomas, age 58 passed away August 20, 2013 at Jackson Madison County General Hospital.She was born in Humboldt, TN the daughter of the late Happle and Betty James Blackburn. She graduated from Trenton Peabody High School in 1972. She was married to Tony Thomas on August 10, 1979. Mary attended Business College and received her...
Gayle Ellington
Aug 19, 2013
GAYLE ELLINGTONMarch 11, 1940 – August 19, 2013Mifflin, TN: Gayle Ellington, age 73 passed away Monday, August 19, 2013 at Jackson Madison County General Hospital.He was born and reared in Madison County the son of the late Raymond and Acquilla Hendrix Ellington. He attended Madison County Schools and graduated Southside High School in 1958 where he played football for the...
Rita Jane Melton
Aug 19, 2013
Rita Jane Brewer Luna Melton of Waynesboro, TN was born October 13, 1931 in Nashville, TN, the daughter of the late William Walter Brewer, Sr. and Mabel Frances Stricklin Brewer. She was united in marriage to John Thomas Luna in 1949 and he preceded her in death on February 20, 1972. She later married James W. Melton in 1995 and...
James C. Pyron
Aug 19, 2013
James C. Pyron was born December 7, 1929 in McNairy County , TN the son of the late Erba and Ruth LaRue Pyron.He was united in marriage to Mildred Hill on May 31, 2000. Mr. Pyron retired from the Memphis Fire Department as a fire marshall investigator after 30 years of public service. Gardening, traveling across the country, tinkering and...
Jan Majors Hoover
Aug 19, 2013
Jan Majors Hoover departed this life on Monday, August 19, 2013, at the age of 59 years, 10 days.She was born in Hardin County, Tennessee on August 9, 1954, the daughter of Jean Teas Majors and the late Jarvis Burke Majors. On July 2, 1983, she was united in marriage to James Allen Hoover, who survives. Jan had lived in...
David Crawford
Aug 18, 2013
was born September 10, 1954 in Hornsby, TN the son of Ann Webb and the late Elmo Crawford. He was united in marriage to Greta Martindale on September 10, 1998. Mr. Crawford was a maintenance supervisor at Western State Mental Health in Bolivar TN. and had also owned and operated a karate doJo in Selmer TN. for many years. He...
Paul Martin Green
Aug 18, 2013
Dr. Paul Martin Green departed this life at the age of 91 years, Sunday, August 18, 2013 at Bolivar General Hospital.Dr. Green was born in Decatur, Texas, January 16, 1922 and graduated from high school with the Class of 1939 at Decatur High School. He married Frances Allene "Bo" Slaton of Electra, Texas in 1941. He received his professional degree...
Georgia E. Smith
Aug 18, 2013
Mrs. Georgia E. Smith departed this life Sunday morning, August 18, 2013 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. The widow of Johnnie W. Smith, who died on October 18, 1983, she worked as a psychiatric technician at Western Mental Health Institute for 38 years. She was born in Hornsby, Tennessee, daughter of the late Ernest Scott Howell and Odie Lee Coburn...
Flora L. Strickland
Aug 18, 2013
Flora L. Strickland was born December 19, 1950 in Alcorn County, MS the daughter of the late Allen and Minnie Strickland Horne.Ms. Strickland was a loving mother, grandmother, and spending time with her family especially her grandchildren was very precious to her. She had a caring and compassionate heart for others, often going to nursing homes to visit with the...
Gentry Samuel (Sammy) Parker
Aug 17, 2013
Mr. Parker departed this life Saturday afternoon, August 17, 2013 at Bolivar General Hospital.The husband of Dottie Parker, who survives, he retired after 29 years of teaching and coaching, having taught/coached at Toone Elementary School and Bolivar Middle School. He was born in Hardeman County, son of the late Gentry Samuel Parker, Sr. and Myrtle Wiles Parker and lived all...
Henry Lee Martin
Aug 17, 2013
Henry Lee Martin of Cypress Inn, TN was born December 13, 1927 in Wayne Co., TN, the son of the late William Thomas and Annie Caldonia Jenkins Martin. He was united in marriage to Edith Hanvey on September 10, 1949 and she preceded him in death on May 26, 2011.Mr. Martin was a retired sawmill worker and departed this life...
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