Janice Tucker

Janice Tucker, 69, of West Memphis, AR, formerly of Bolivar, passed away early Wednesday morning, September 25, 2019 at Baptist Hospital East in Memphis.

The wife of Bob Tucker, who survives, she retired in 2015 from Methodist Health Care Systems in Memphis, TN. She was born August 16, 1950 in Hornsby, the daughter of Dorothy Ragon Milstead Shearon, of Paris and the late Hugh Morton Milstead, and lived in Bolivar until she moved to Memphis in 1981. She was a member of the American Dietitian Association and Bolivar First Baptist Church. Her hobbies included day trading on the stock market, travelling out west, and watching University of Memphis basketball and Chicago Bears football games, both of which she was a huge fan.

Survivors include her husband, Bob Tucker of West Memphis, AR; her mother, Dorothy Shearon of Paris, TN; two sons, Brian Weeks (Amy Jo) and Marcus Weeks (Stephanie); and 4 grandchildren, Benjamin, Madison, Briley and Colton Weeks. In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by a brother, Charles Lynn Milstead. Memorial contributions in her name may be sent to the American Heart Association (www.heart.org/donate)