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Linda Snyder

Linda Snyder

Dec 29, 2014

Biography Linda Mae Messer Snyder, age 66 of Lewisburg, passed away on Monday, December 29, 2014 at her residence. Mrs. Snyder was a native of Bucyrus, OH and was the daughter of the late Harvey Franklin Messer and Violet Kiser Messer of Dayton, OH who survives. She was also preceded in death by a sister, Patty Scoupp. In addition...

Mattie Neese

Mattie Neese

Dec 29, 2014

Mattie J. Baugher Neese, age 80 of Lewisburg, passed away on Monday, December 29, 2014 at NHC Healthcare- Oakwood. Mrs. Neese was a native of Limestone County, AL and was the daughter of the late Asa Baugher and Ophelia Vincent Baugher. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Claude Neese who passed away in 1992, one sister,...

Eddie Richmond

Eddie Richmond

Dec 24, 2014

Eddie Richmond, age 68, of Lewisburg, Tennessee, died Wednesday, December 24, 2014, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Eddie was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was the son of the late Clarence and Christine G. Richmond. He was a member of First United Methodist Church in Lewisburg. Eddie was a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and a cherished friend to...

Fern Watters

Fern Watters

Dec 21, 2014

Fern Dorothy Watters, age 98 of Petersburg, passed away on Sunday, December 21, 2014 at Donelson Skilled Care in Fayetteville. Mrs. Watters was a native of St. Louis, MO and was the daughter of the late John Otten and Rosie Johnson Otten. She was also proceded in death by her husband, Robert Lee Watters who passed away in 1999...

Sandra Rogers

Sandra Rogers

Dec 18, 2014

Sandra Viola Fearby Allen Rogers, age 71, passed away on Thursday, December 18, 2014 at Marshall Medical Center. A native of Medina, NY , Mrs. Rogers was the daughter of the late Viola Fearby Vaughn. She was also preceded in death by her first husband, Adrian Delos Allen, Jr. in 1988 and her second husband, Odell Rogers in 2004...

Paul Carivau

Paul Carivau

Dec 15, 2014

Paul Duane Carivau, age 69 of Lewisburg, passed away on Monday, December 15, 2014 at Marshall Medical Center. A native of Grand Forks County, MN, Mr. Carivau was the son of the late Walter Joseph Carivau and Ruth Marie Anderson Carivau. He served his county in the United States Army. He is survived by his wife, Betsy Roldan Carivau...

Gerald Burns

Gerald Burns

Dec 15, 2014

Gerald W. Burns, age 64 of Lewisburg, passed away on Monday, December 15, 2014 at his residence. A native of Lincoln County, Mr. Burns was the son of James Burns of Fayetteville and the late Doris Fite Burns. He was also preceded in death by his wife, Donna McMillian Burns. Mr. Burns was self-employed as a paver and served...

Dorothy Blackburn

Dorothy Blackburn

Nov 29, 2014

Mrs. Dorothy Blackburn age 86 of Lewisburg, passed away on Saturday, November 29, 2014 in Marshall Medical Center. Mrs. Blackburn was a native of McNairy County and was the daughter of the late Troy Hall and Lilly Smith Hall. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Assembly of God. In addition to her parents, she was...

Patricia Bensinger

Patricia Bensinger

Nov 24, 2014

Biography Patricia Grace Reynolds Bensinger, age 73 of Lewisburg, passed away on Monday, November 24, 2014. Mrs. Bensinger was born on October 24, 1941 in Lewisburg and was the daughter of the late James Franklin Reynolds, Jr. and Lillian Rose Holman Reynolds. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Billy Bensinger, who passed away in 2008. She...

Steven Finley

Steven Finley

Nov 22, 2014

Steven Marshall Finley, age 62 of Lewisburg, passed away on Saturday, November 22, 2014 at his residence. A native of Marshall County, Mr. Finley was the son of the late Billy Finley and Dorothy Ramsey Parker of Lewisburg, who survives. He worked for the VA Administration, was a deacon at East Commerce Baptist Church, and served his country with...

Ernestine Cowden

Ernestine Cowden

Nov 19, 2014

Ernestine Miles Cowden, age 90 of Petersburg, passed away on Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at Adams Place in Murfreesboro. A native of Henry County, KY, Mrs. Cowden was the daughter of the late J. Mason Miles and Nell Chisholm Miles. She was also preceded in death by her husband, John Edward Cowden, who passed away in 2013. She retired...

Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes

Nov 18, 2014

Helen Marie Rogers Hayes, age 76 of Lewisburg, passed away on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at her residence. A native of Marshall County, Mrs. Hayes was the daughter of the late Luther Allen and Jewel McMillian Allen. She was also preceded in death by one grandchild, Richard Brian Rogers. She was a plant manager with Jama Manufacturing and a...

James Hood

James Hood

Nov 11, 2014

James Franklin Hood, age 67, passed away on Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at Maury Regional Medical Center. Mr. Hood was the son of the late, David Shipman Hood, Sr. and Mary Frances Hutchins Hood Strickland. Also preceded in death were two brothers, David Shipman Hood, Jr. and Johnny Lee Hood; two sisters, Patricia Hood and Mary Kay Indinger; and...

James Harris, Jr

James Harris, Jr

Nov 11, 2014

Biography Mr. James William Harris, Jr., age 61 of Franklin, Tennessee passed away on Tuesday, November 11, 2014, at Williamson Medical Center in Franklin. He was the son of James Harris, Sr. and Alberta Harris, both of Indianapolis, IN Mr. Harris was born in Indianapolis, IN on July 16, 1953. Jimmy was baptized as one of Jehovah's Witnesses in...

Ruby Bridges

Ruby Bridges

Nov 11, 2014

Biography Ruby Adcock Bridges, age 75 passed away on Tuesday, November 11, 2014. She is survived by two children, Laurrie Lynn (Tommy) Batey of Lewisburg and Steven (Donna) Bridges of Hendersonville; three grandchildren, Daniel Batey of Lewisburg, Dana Mires of Vanntown and Raegan Bridges of Hendersonville; two great-grandchildren, Jeremy and Amber Batey of Lewisburg; two sisters, Zenith Graves of...

Adelaide Bigham

Adelaide Bigham

Nov 7, 2014

Adelaide Sanders Bigham, age 92 of Lewisburg, passed away on Friday, November 7, 2014 at her residence. A native of the Delina Community, Mrs. Bigham was the daughter of the late Alex Sanders and Grace Taylor Sanders. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Lt. Col. Hughey W. Bigham, who passed away in 2001, and one sister,...

Dorris Weaver

Dorris Weaver

Nov 4, 2014

Mr. Dorris Weaver, age 80, of Lewisburg, Tennessee, died Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at his home in Lewisburg. Mr. Weaver was born in Marshall County and was a son of the late Frank Lee and Beulah Mae Phifer Weaver. He served his country as a soldier with the Tennessee Army National Guard, from which he retired in 1991, after...

Garry Jett

Garry Jett

Nov 1, 2014

Garry Wayne Jett, age 30 passed away at University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. Mr. Jett was the son of Annette Jett Vaughn and Terry Jett. He is survived by three brothers, TJ, Matthew, and Ryan Jett; one sister, Lynnette Jett; two nephews, Dante Kidder and Shawn Jett; one niece, Nevaeh Kidder; and a grandmother, Corrine Collins. A...

William Lentz

William Lentz

Oct 31, 2014

Biography William "Radar" Wayne Lentz, age 46, of Lewisburg, passed away on Friday, October 31, 2014 at Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia. A native of Lewisburg, Mr. Lentz was the son of the late Wilma Lee Troop and William F. Stewart of Lewisburg, who survives and he worked many years at ICP. In addition to his father, he...

Betty Slagle

Betty Slagle

Oct 26, 2014

Betty June Slagle, age 84 of Columbia, formally of Lewisburg, passed away on Sunday, October 26, 2014 at Life Care Center in Columbia. Mrs. Slagle was the daughter of the late Hobert Moore and Clara Davis Moore. She was also preceded in death by her husband of sixty years, Ernest Slagle, who passed away in 2008; one brother, Don...

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