Lois Attaway Green
Apr 19, 2018
Lois Attaway Green age 85 of League City, TX passed away Thursday April 19, 2018. She was born in Selmer, TN on November 28, 1932 to Troy and Evie Mae Attaway. She was married to Abner Green for thirty-five years. Lois worked as a seamstress and had a passion for fishing.Mrs. Green is survived by a son, Michael Mason (Juliana);...
Bernard "Bernie" Ganster
Apr 19, 2018
Bernard "Bernie" Ganster was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on February 25, 1933, the son of the late Bernard Augustine and Anna Mariam Schaeffer Ganster. Mr. Ganster departed this life on April 19, 2018, at the age of 85 years, 1 month, and 25 days. Mr. Ganster was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus, both in...
Melvin Oscar White
Apr 19, 2018
Melvin Oscar White was born in Hardin County, Tennessee on December 17, 1948, the son of the late Oscar Melvin and Dovie Louise Higgins White. On March 31, 1975, he was united in marriage to Rebecca Catherine Kirkpatrick, who preceded him in death on October 13, 2007. Mr. White departed this life on April 19, 2018, at the age of...
Paul Elbert Odle
Apr 19, 2018
Paul Elbert Odle Sr. of Waynesboro, TN was born September 3, 1951 in Wayne County, TN, the son of the late Henry and Willodean Franklin Odle. Mr. Odle was a retired foreman at Mallory and was a member of the Church of God. Mr. Odle departed this life on Thursday, April 19, 2018 at Wayne Medical Center in Waynesboro, Tennessee...
Virginia Rudean "Rud" Curtis Seaton
Apr 19, 2018
VIRGINIA RUDEAN CURTIS SEATON was born August 22, 1933 near Counce, Hardin County, Tennessee, the eleventh child of the late Johnston Albert Curtis and Josie Albinah Smith Curtis. She was the granddaughter of the late Jefferson Davis "Jeff" Davis and Mary Ellen Osborn Curtis; and, John Groves Smith and Sarah Ann "Sallie" Duncan Johnson Smith. On August 9, 1947, she...
Gary Wayne Cook
Apr 19, 2018
Gary Wayne Cook of Waynesboro, TN departed this life Thursday, April 19, 2018 at Athens Limestone Hospital in Athens, Alabama at the age of 59 Years, 2 Months, 1 Day. He was born February 18, 1959 in Savannah, TN, the son of Thomas Earl and Sarah Ann Thompson Cook of Waynesboro, TN, who survive.He married Judy Harvey on February 13,...
Bobby Glen Gibbs
Apr 17, 2018
Bobby Glen Gibbs, Sr. was born October 18, 1938 in Morris Chapel, TN the son of the late Finley (Tony) and Harue Moffett Gibbs. He was united in marriage to Patsy George on June 21, 1959. They were members of the First Christian Church in Adamsville where they loved their family church. Bobby started his career with Frito Lay in...
Terry William Prater
Apr 17, 2018
Terry William Prater was born in Hohenwald, Tennessee, on January 3, 1959, to Collins (Blue) and Dorothy Sue Lineberry Prater, who survive. Raised in Clifton, Tennessee, on the banks of the beautiful Tennessee River, he graduated from Frank Hughes High School in Clifton in 1977. He married his one true love, Debbie Dean “Fickle” Prater on November 19, 1984, and...
Laura Kay Gladden Renfro
Apr 17, 2018
Laura Kay Gladden Renfro was born December 23, 1961 in Memphis, TN. She departed this life on April 17, 2018 in Adamsville, Tennessee at the age of 56 Years, 3 Months, 25 Days. She was married to David Renfro on November 5, 1982. Laura met David on the side of the road with car trouble in Little Rock, Arkansas, on...
Jean Elizabeth Cox
Apr 17, 2018
Jean Elizabeth Cox was born February 11, 1929 in McNairy County, TN, the daughter of the late Elmer and Tinnie Moore Jamerson. She was united in marriage to R. P. Cox on September 16, 1949. Mr. Cox preceded her in death on August 11, 2012. She was a member of the Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in Bethel Springs, Tennessee. Jean...
Glen Ashe
Apr 17, 2018
Glen Ashe of Selmer, TN was born January 28, 1947 in McNairy County, TN the son of the late Estil Raymond Ashe and Mildred Baker Ashe. He owned Glen's Appliance Repair Service which he ran with his son Jeff.Glen retired from Sears and previously worked at Thermagas. He was a member of Union Grove United Methodist Church. He enjoyed fixing...
Virginia Finley
Apr 16, 2018
Virginia Finley of Adamsville, TN was born January 27, 1928 in McNairy County the daughter of the late Alfie Weeks and Mary Harris Weeks. She was united in marriage to J. C. Finley on September 18, 1946. Mr. Finley preceded her in death on February 27, 1994. She was a member of Pine Hill Assembly.She is survived by four daughters,...
William H. "Bill" Crawford
Apr 16, 2018
Mr. William “Bill” Henry Crawford, who passed from this life on April 16, 2018. Bill was born on September 6, 1925, in Middleton, TN, and was preceded in death by his wife of sixty-two years, Nancy Joan Colwell Crawford, his parents Daniel Loyd Crawford and May Etheridge Crawford, a sister (Peggy Crawford Shearin) and brother (David Loyd Crawford). After graduating...
Terry "Bootsie" Boothe
Apr 15, 2018
TERRY “BOOTSIE” BOOTHE Reagan, TN: Terry Ray Boothe age 70 passed away Sunday April 15, 2018 at his home.He was born April 7, 1948 in Reagan, TN the son of the late John Weyman and Millie Elizabeth Barker Boothe. The family moved to Chicago where he grew up and went to school. He joined the US Army in 1966, when...
Sue Ross
Apr 15, 2018
Sue Ross was born March 26, 1950 in Jackson, TN the daughter of Sue Farris Anglin and the late Arthur Anglin.She was united in marriage to Phillip Ross on May 7, 1988. Mr. Ross preceded her in death on February 26, 2007.Mrs. Ross was a member of the Pleasant Site Baptist Church in Selmer, Tennessee. She enjoyed crocheting, doll collecting,...
Austin Blake Riley Melson
Apr 15, 2018
Austin Blake Riley Melson departed this life on Sunday, April 15, 2018, at the age of 20 years, 7 months, and 27 days. He was born in Selmer, Tennessee on August 19, 1997, the son of Brian Melson and Teresa Austin Ervin.Blake was an active member of the US Army Reserve 663 Engineer Company out of Florence, Alabama and employed...
Cecil W. Akin, Jr.
Apr 15, 2018
Cecil W. Akin, Jr. was born October 12, 1936 in Monticello, AR the son of the late Cecil W. Akin, Sr. and Christine Bostain Akin. He was united in marriage to Rhita L. Lumpkin on March 16, 1963. They lived in Memphis until moving to Rhita's hometown of Ramer in 1980. Mr. Akin worked in Banking for over 30 years...
Elizabeth Graves Chalkley
Apr 15, 2018
Elizabeth Graves Chalkley, age 94, of Lawton, Oklahoma passed away Sunday, April 15, 2018 in Lawton. She was born to Perry and Blanche (Bastin) Graves in Wayne County, Tennessee on July 6, 1923. She attended schools in Linden, Tennessee. She married Leonard Chalkley on June 20, 1944 in the Church of Christ in Tullahoma, Tennessee. He died April 23, 2001....
Addison Faith Thompson
Apr 15, 2018
Addison Faith Thompson was born April 14, 2018 in Tupelo, MS the daughter of Ryan Thompson and Amber Johnson.Addison departed this life on April 15, 2018 in Tupelo, Mississippi at the age of one day.She is survived by her parents, Ryan Thompson and Amber Johnson, a sister, Rylee Thompson, and a brother, Kaison Thompson, all of Corinth, MS; maternal grandmother...
Dorothy Gean (Dot) Burks
Apr 14, 2018
Dorothy Gean (Dot) Burks was born March 23, 1929 in McNairy County, TN the daughter of the late James Earl and Mary Lydia Tedford Brown.She was united in marriage to Charles Burks on November 3, 1951.Mrs. Burks moved to Gary, Indiana when she was younger and worked for 9 years as a waitress before moving back to McNairy County. She...
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