Local obituaries for Jackson & Madison County, TN
Jane Allen Lipsey
Mar 9, 2017
Jane Allen Lipsey of Camden, TN passed away peacefully on March 9, 2017. Jane was born in Columbus, MS on October 28, 1948 to Willis Marchbank and Robert Lipsey, Jr. She attended Happy Hollow School as a young child. She later went to CS Patterson Center in Trenton, TN. Jane has lived in Camden, TN with Omni Vision for the...
Robert (Bob) Cabel Morford Sr.
Mar 7, 2017
Robert (Bob) Cabel Morford Sr., age 91, died Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at Bells Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was born in Jackson, TN to the late William and Eudora Neblett Morford. He was a graduate of Jackson High School and was retired from the John Deere Company and was in sales for many years serving the community. He was...
Katie M. Worley
Mar 4, 2017
Katie M. Worley, age 74, died on Saturday, March 4, 2017 at the Jackson Madison County General Hospital. Katie was born in Madison County, TN on October 22, 1942, the daughter of the late Hubert and Maggie Ora Ada Warren. She was retired as a receptionist with West Tennessee Healthcare. She was an active member of Woodland Baptist Church for...
William "Bill" M. Lacy
Mar 1, 2017
William M. “Bill” Lacy, 90, died Wednesday morning March 1, 2017 at Jackson Madison County General Hospital. He was born in Memphis, TN on September 16, 1926 the son of the late William Moss and Mary Ellis Lacy. He was a retired investment banker and served in the United States Navy. Bill is survived by his wife Lucile Lacy of...
Betty Ruth Woodard
Mar 1, 2017
Betty Ruth Woodard, age 92 died on Wednesday, March 1, 2017 in Jackson, TN Betty a native of Springfield, TN, was born on January 31, 1925, the daughter of the late Hubert and Sally Lawrence Moore. She was married to Joseph Smith Woodard who preceded her in death. She was retired as the office manager for Micro-Electronics. She was a...
Jimmy Dale Johnson
Feb 26, 2017
Jimmy Dale Johnson, age 80, died on Sunday, February 26, 2017 at his residence. Jimmy was born on July 28, 1936, the son of the late Sadie Gatley Johnson. He was raised in the Westover Community attending the Westover Grammar School and Northside High School. He began his career in Sales and Delivery in 1960, a career that spanned fifty-seven...
Jerry Gordon Harris
Feb 25, 2017
Jerry Gordon Harris, age 65, died on Saturday, February 25, 2017 at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Southaven, MS. A native of Jackson, TN, Jerry was born on June 26, 1951 the son of Gordon Alvis and Doris Ann Arnold Harris. He was a graduate of Northwest College in Southaven, MS with a business degree. He was retired as a...
Thomas Richard Yandell
Feb 23, 2017
Thomas Richard "Rik" Yandell, Jr., age 66, was welcomed into the Kingdom of heaven on February 23, 2017, by his Savior, Jesus Christ. Born in 1950 to Thomas Richard Yandell, Sr. and Keelen Bond Yandell, Rik grew up in Jackson, graduating from Jackson High School and attending Memphis State University on basketball scholarship. He began his career, joining his father...
Gilbert Brevard Pope
Feb 22, 2017
Funeral services will be held for Gilbert Brevard Pope (Papaw) at 11:00 Friday, February 24th, 2017 in the chapel of Arrington Funeral Directors with Jerry Patterson and Drew Crosby presiding. Mr. Pope died. Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017. Mr. Pope was born in Germantown, TN on August 4th, 1930. Upon marrying Laura Elizabeth Julian on December 10th, 1948, they made their...
Gloria G. Dixon
Feb 22, 2017
Gloria G. Dixon, age 76, died on Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at the Jackson Madison County General Hospital. Gloria was born in Memphis, TN on January 21, 1941, the daughter of the late John Gordon Holland and Rebecca Barton Coughlin. She was a faithful member of Northside United Methodist Church for over twenty years, where she participated in numerous activities....
Norma May Barkley Greer
Feb 18, 2017
Norma May Barkley was born on July 19, 1927 to Erle and May (Hays) Barkley in Grinnell (Poweshiek County), Iowa. She was the oldest of four, with her two sisters, Barbara and Jean, and her brother, Keith. As a young girl, Norma enjoyed school and helping take care of the household with her mother and sisters while her father and...
Dortha Nell Phillips
Feb 16, 2017
Dortha Nell Phillips, age 97, passed away peacefully, on Thursday, February 16, 2017 at Morningside Assisted Living in Jackson, TN, her home for the past nine years, where she was cared for with love and compassion. The family would like to give a special thank you to West Tennessee Hospice, and the staff, the beautician, excellent nurses and her caring...
Robert Nolen
Feb 15, 2017
Robert N. Nolen, 99 years, 10 months and 18 days died February 15, 2017 at Brookdale Jackson Oaks. Mr. Nolen was born March 28, 1917, in Hardin County, Sardis, Tennessee, the son of the late James I. Nolen and Rosie Cherry Nolen. He was a graduate of Pinson High School, West Tennessee Business College and took Several courses through the...
Sarah Elizabeth Gobelet
Feb 14, 2017
Sarah Elizabeth Gobelet, 75, died, as she requested, peacefully at her residence surrounded by her husband and children. She was born in Humphreys County, TN the daughter of the late Archie J. and Hesta Winters Stewart. She was employed with Jackson Madison County General Hospital for 41 years in Medical records. She taught Sunday school and was an active member...
Christopher Chad Cantrell
Feb 14, 2017
Chad Cantrell Passed away unexpectedly, on February 14, 2017. He was 46 years old. SERVICES: A visitation will be held at Arrington Funeral Directors on Saturday, February 18, 2017 from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM. A memorial service will be held at 1:00 PM at Arrington Funeral Directors with Dr. John Farrar officiating. Chad was a graduate of JCM and...
James "Cotton" Maxwell
Feb 13, 2017
JAMES “COTTON” MAXWELL James “Cotton” Maxwell, age 88, died Monday February 13, 2017 at Jackson Madison County Hospital. He was born in Bells, TN to the late parents of William and Gypsy Williams Maxwell in Crockett County. He was retired as a master carpenter and loved to build and create things and work with wood. He was a member of...
Jonathon Aaron Carter
Feb 10, 2017
Jonathon A. Carter, age 36, died on Friday, February 10, 2017 at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. He was born in Jackson, TN on November 22, 1980, the son of Darrell and Patricia Branham Carter. He was a graduate of Northside High School and was an avid outdoorsman enjoying, hunting, fishing and any...
Jack (Ovid Cecil) Hilliard
Feb 9, 2017
Jack (Ovid Cecil) Hilliard, of Murfreesboro, TN died peacefully at home February 9, 2017. He was 91 years old. Jack is survived by his loving wife of 68 years, Betty Ruth Hilliard and two daughters, Kim Bouchillon (Lynn) of Cumming, GA and Trudy Collins (Rick) of Murfreesboro, TN. He is survived by granddaughters, Marissa Bouchillon of Cumming, GA, Morgan Bouchillon...
Linda Kaye Lance
Feb 6, 2017
LINDA K. LANCE Linda Kaye Lance, age 70, died Monday February 6, 2017 at Jackson Madison County Hospital. She was born June 21, 1946 to the parents of Otis and Onie Mae Bowman West in Henderson County. She was retired from Jackson Madison County General Hospital serving in Medical Records. She loved her family, her church, and her God. Mrs....
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