Local obituaries for Jackson & Madison County, TN
Leslee Ann Hallenback
Sep 13, 2022
Leslee Ann Hallenback, age 59, passed away on Tuesday September 13, 2022. She was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up in Hicksville, NY. She married the love of her life, Richard, on August 7, 1983. They moved to Tennessee in 1987 to raise their family and to Oklahoma in 2019 to retire with their grandsons. Leslee joined the Jackson...
Steven Mack Lawson
Sep 10, 2022
Steven M. Lawson, age 77, entered his heavenly home on September 10, 2022, at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. He was born in Memphis, TN on August 20, 1945, the son of the late Mack Edward and Ruth Skelton Lawson. Steven was a veteran of the United States Air Force where he attended Air War College and Radar School, retiring with...
Carol Kay Holt
Sep 9, 2022
Carol Kay Holt, age 77, entered her heavenly home on Friday, September 9, 2022, at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. Carol Kay was born in Marked Tree, AR on September 23, 1944, the daughter of the late Ross and Mary Glidewell Williams. She was a member of Campbell Street Church of Christ and was a servant to many in the community....
Maxine Porter Pusser
Sep 9, 2022
Maxine Porter Pusser entered her heavenly home on Friday, September 9, 2022, at Northbrooke Healthcare of Jackson, at the age of 91. A native of Red Bay, AL, she was born on February 20, 1931, the daughter of the late Lonnie and Dora White Porter. Maxine had a varied career working as a waitress and later at Rockwell International, retiring...
Robert Paul Stovall Jr.
Sep 5, 2022
Robert “Paul” Stovall, Jr. died Monday, September 5, 2022, at Tennessee State Veterans Home in Humboldt, TN, at the age of 82. He was born May 4, 1940, in Memphis, TN, to the late Robert Paul Stovall, Sr. and Hortense Rainey Stovall. Paul received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Memphis State University. Paul joined the Navy when...
Kim Denise Preece
Aug 30, 2022
Kim Denise Preece, 63, passed away peacefully on the morning of August 30th, surrounded by her family. Kim was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and lived there until moving to Jackson, Tennessee in 1998. She began volunteering with the Jackson Humane Society, which began her lifelong love of cats. Kim was a ceramics instructor for the City of Jackson with...
Jerry W. Williams
Aug 28, 2022
Jerry W. Williams, age 83, entered his heavenly home on Sunday, August 28, 2022, with his loving wife by his side. A native of Humboldt, TN, he was born on December 25, 1938, the son of the late Lonnie and Cola Lee Davenport Williams. He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church of Jackson, where he was in the church...
Patricia Faye Isbell
Aug 22, 2022
Patricia (Patsy) Faye Isbell, age 83, passed from this life peacefully at home with her family by her side on Monday, August 22, 2022. She was born Patricia Faye Osborne on September 23, 1938, in Birmingham, AL, to Charles Lester Osborne and Annie Upton Osborne. They returned to the Jackson area, where Patsy received most of her education in the...
Carolyn Rose Verell
Aug 21, 2022
On August 21,2022, Carolyn Rose Verell, loving wife, mother, sister, grandmother, and great grandmother, passed away peacefully at home. Mrs. Verell is preceded in death by her loving husband of seventy-two years, John Verell. She is survived by her son, John Allen Verell and wife Michele. Two grandchildren Johnny Verell and wife Crissy, Ashley Hairston and husband Oliver and two...
Tony Woods
Aug 19, 2022
Tony Woods was born in Humphreys County, Tennessee on May 3, 1940, to Ed and Marie Woods, spending most of his life in the Humboldt/Jackson area. He worked hard all of his life, and many times, working more than one job at a time. His primary employment was a sales route position with Colonial Baking Company. After his retirement, he...
Barbara Sue Chandler
Aug 18, 2022
Barbara Sue Chandler departed this life peacefully on Thursday, August 18, 2022, at her home surrounded by family at the age of 64. Barbara was born February 24, 1958, in Birmingham, Alabama to the late John C. and Virginia Horton Staggs. An exceptional wife and mother, she cared deeply for her family and proudly raised two beautiful daughters with her...
Michael "Sarge" Simiele
Aug 17, 2022
Michael "Sarge" Simiele, died on August 17, 2022, at Jackson- Madison County General Hospital at the age of 77. He was born on December 6, 1944, in Pittsfield, MA, the son of the late Nicholas and Margaret Sposato Simiele. Michael served his country for 20 years in the United States Air Force, retiring as a Senior Master Sergeant. After his...
Louise Hurt
Aug 16, 2022
Louise Hurt, age 91, received her heavenly reward on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, at her daughter’s residence. She was born in Mercer, TN on January 12, 1931, the daughter of the late Nathan N. and Lucy Jane McCarver Tims. She was married to Odell Hurt, Sr., who preceded her in death. As a homemaker, Louise enjoyed reading, embroidery, and bird...
Eileen Frances Mckiernan Leonard
Aug 15, 2022
Eileen Frances McKiernan Leonard, age 78 of Jackson, TN, passed away at her home in Gulf Shores, AL on Monday, August 15, 2022 after a one-year battle with leiomyosarcoma bladder cancer. Eileen was born on April 26, 1944, in Newark, NJ to George and Veronica McKiernan. She was a 1962 graduate of Neptune High School in Neptune, NJ, where she...
David Max Reeves Jr.
Aug 13, 2022
David Max Reeves, Jr. departed this life on Saturday, August 13, 2022, at the Jackson-Madison County General Hospital at the age of 79. David was born November 5, 1942, in Jackson, TN to the late David Max Reeves, Sr. and June Elaine Barron Reeves. He worked at Madison Haywood Developmental Services as an assembly worker. He was an active member...
Ernest Stubbs, Jr.
Aug 11, 2022
Ernest Stubbs Jr., also affectionately known as Sunnyman, was born November 4, 1938, in Ruleville Mississippi. He was the second of eight children born to the late Mary Erving and Ernest Stubbs, Sr. Other than his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Willie Stubbs; sisters, Kathleen Stubbs and Ruthie Stubbs, and one grandson, Marcus Fulgern. Ernest received...
Joseph "Joe" Jacks Moore
Aug 10, 2022
Joseph “Joe” Jacks Moore passed away peacefully on Wednesday, August 10, 2022, in Jackson, TN at the age of 78. He was born in Tuscumbia, AL on August 15, 1943, to the late Matthew Lynch Moore and Mary George Price Moore. Joe married the love of his life, Jane Maclin, after meeting her at Florence State (now the University of...
Margie D. Jordan
Aug 9, 2022
Margie D. Jordan, age 87, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, in Nashville, TN. She was born in Jackson, TN on July 21, 1935, to the late Aubrey J. and Viola Lue Harrell Haley. As a young girl, Margie was baptized at West Jackson Baptist Church. She worked at K-Mart as the director of personnel. She loved gardening...
Margie F. Murphy
Aug 9, 2022
Margie F. Murphy, age 84, received her heavenly reward on August 9, 2022, at her residence surrounded by her loving family. She was born in McKenzie, TN on April 29, 1938, the daughter of the late David Austin and Lera Eubanks Dailey. She was married to Robert “Bob” Murphy who preceded her in death. A long-time member of Ararat Baptist...
Bennie Harold Weaver Sr.
Aug 9, 2022
Bennie H. Weaver, Sr. entered his heavenly home on August 9, 2022, surrounded by his family and friends, at the age of 82. Born in Munford, TN on June 23, 1940, he was the son of the late Johnny and Leona Gage Weaver. He was preceded in death by his wife, Terrie Lynn Weaver in May 2015. Bennie had a...
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