Obituaries
McMinnville, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for McMinnville, TN and the surrounding areas
Emma Gladys Pope
Dec 17, 2015
Morrison, TN resident and Warren County, TN native Emma Gladys Pope, age 90, was born November 5, 1925 and died December 17, 2015 at NHC Healthcare in McMinnville following an extended illness. Retired from Carrier Air Conditioning Company and a member of Grange Hall Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Bryan and Lodema Roberts Bouldin. She...
Melba Fraley
Dec 15, 2015
Melba Cain Fraley, age 99, a McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native died December 15, 2015 at Raintree Manor following an extended illness. She was a homemaker, member of the Church of Christ and daughter of the late Hugh and Myrtle Hall Cain. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by husband, Walling Fraley in...
Nellie Starkey
Dec 14, 2015
Nellie Starkey, age 85, a McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native died December 14, 2015 at St. Thomas River Park Hospital following a brief illness. She was a homemaker, member of the Smyrna Church of Christ and daughter of the late Noah Howard Byron and Rena Catherine Jarrels Keel. Mrs. Starkey was married June 29, 1956 to Alford...
Robert Kendall Davis, Jr.
Dec 13, 2015
Robert Kendall Davis, Jr., age 70, a Rock Island, TN resident and San Jose, Costa Rica native died December 13, 2015 at his residence following a three-year illness. He was a disabled United States Army veteran, member of Campaign Church of God and son of the late Robert K. and Joan H. Hamlin Davis, Sr. Mr. Davis was married February...
Hassie Lee Dykes
Dec 11, 2015
McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native Hassie Lee Dykes, age 79, was born April 1, 1936 and died December 11, 2015 at St. Thomas River Park Hospital following an extended illness. Retired from B & P Lamp Supply and a member of the Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late Thurman and Della Myers Basham. In...
Clyde Moore
Dec 10, 2015
Clyde Moore, age 93, a McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native died December 10, 2015 at Raintree Manor following an extended illness. He was a retired employee of McMinnville Electric System, member of the Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church and son of the late Frank and Grace Riggs Moore. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death...
Linda G. Bates Young
Dec 9, 2015
Holland, OH resident and McMinnville, TN native Linda G. Bates Young, age 72, was born June 9, 1943 and died December 9, 2015 at the Hospice of Northwest Ohio following an extended illness. A retired nurse's aide, she was the daughter of the late Toy and Hazel Starkey Bates. She was married October 13, 1961 to Glenn Montgomery Young who...
Stella Mae Caten
Dec 9, 2015
Stella Mae Johnson Caten, age 76, a McMinnville, TN resident and Van Buren County, TN native died December 9, 2015 in NHC Healthcare of McMinnville following an extended illness. Mrs. Caten was a homemaker, member of the Church of Christ and daughter of the late George Thomson "Jack McGuire" and Levina Polly Hale Johnson. She was married in July of...
Luther Wayne Fisher
Dec 9, 2015
Luther Wayne Fisher, age 68, a Sparta, TN resident and DeKalb County, TN native died December 9, 2015 in NHC Healthcare of McMinnville following an extended illness. He was an employee with White County Lumber, member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church and son of the late Luke Lee and Ovlean Hendrixson Fisher. In addition to his parents he was preceded in...
Betty Joyce Dillard
Dec 8, 2015
McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native Betty Joyce Dillard, age 73, was born May 22, 1942 and died December 8, 2015 at her residence following a long illness. A self-employed home cleaner, she was the daughter of the late Herman D. and Myrena Womack Looper. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by three brothers,...
Billie Lee Fuston
Dec 8, 2015
Billie Lee Pierce Fuston, McMinnville, TN resident and Ringgold, GA native, passed this life December 8, 2015 at NHC Healthcare in McMinnville after a lingering illness. She was born May 31, 1920 and was 95 years of age. Until her health declined, she was a faithful member of the East End Church of Christ. She was a loving wife, a...
Kimberly Ann Roller
Dec 6, 2015
Kimberly Ann Taylor Roller, age 52, a McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native died December 6, 2015 in St. Thomas River Park Hospital following a sudden illness. She was a homemaker, member of Ivy Bluff Church of Christ and daughter of the late Cecil Layton Taylor who passed away in 2009 and Melva Taylor of McMinnville who survives....
Overton Elbern "Ebbie" Hillis
Dec 6, 2015
Nashville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native Overton Elbern "Ebbie" Hillis, age 67, was born May 9, 1948 and died December 6, 2015 at Alive Hospice in Nashville following an extended illness. A retired supervisor with the elevator division at Nashville Machine Company where he was employed for 48 years, and a veteran of the TN National Guard, he...
Larry Richard Snyder
Dec 6, 2015
McMinnville, TN resident and Flint, MI native Larry Richard Snyder, age 59, was born April 14, 1956 and died December 6, 2015 at Raintree Manor. A rail researcher for the Caney Fork & Western Railroad, he was the son of the late Donald Ray and Agness Marie Fowler Snyder. Funeral service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 9,...
Vickie Denise Comfort
Dec 5, 2015
Vickie Denise Comfort, age 50, a McMinnville, TN resident and Van Buren County, TN native died December 5, 2015 at her residence following a brief illness. She was a homemaker and daughter of the late Donald Thomas Writtenberry and Dorothy May O'neal. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by grandson, Gaige Thomas; grandmother, Marry Lou Nunley;...
Gregory William Jarrell
Dec 5, 2015
McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native Gregory William Jarrell, age 57, was born January 5, 1958 and died December 5, 2015 at St. Thomas River Park Hospital in McMinnville following a brief illness. A truck driver for IMI and Southern Central Iron & Metal, he was the son of Billy and Linda Jarrell of McMinnville. In addition to...
Joe Lane Howard
Dec 3, 2015
Joe Lane Howard, age 81, a Warren County, TN native and McMinnville, TN resident died December 3, 2015 at NHC Healthcare, McMinnville following an extended illness. He was the former owner of McMinnville's Dairy Queen, veteran of the Tennessee Army National Guard, member of the First Baptist Church and son of the late Asa T. and Ola Mai Wilson Howard....
Jones Walton McGregor
Dec 1, 2015
Jones Walton McGregor, age 60, a Bone Cave, TN resident and Warren County, TN native died December 1, 2015 in Vanderbilt University Medical Center following a brief illness. He was an employee of CEI Trucking Company and son of the late Jones William and Dorothy L. Priest McGregor. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by brother,...
Freddie Lynn Duncan
Dec 1, 2015
McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native Freddie Lynn Duncan, age 54, was born December 2, 1960 and died December 1, 2015 at Harton Regional Medical Center in Tullahoma, TN following a sudden illness. A Vending Service Manager with the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Tullahoma where he was employed for 37 years, he was the son of the late...
Carol Ann Eary
Nov 30, 2015
Rock Island, TN resident and Milwaukee, WI native Carol Ann Eary, age 73, was born June 13, 1942 and died November 30, 2015 at St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital in Murfreesboro, TN following a three-week illness. A retired school teacher with the Milwaukee, WI School System, she was the daughter of the late Arthur and Lucille Sobczyk Turczynski. She is survived...
