Obituaries
McMinnville, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for McMinnville, TN and the surrounding areas
Bettye Claire Haston
Apr 27, 2021
Bettye Claire Woodlee Haston, a McMinnville resident and Van Buren County native, was born on Friday, December 13, 1935, and passed peacefully in her sleep in the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 27, 2021, after an extended illness at home. “Miss Bettye” was especially proud of her work as Secretary of Westwood Church for 12 years, and at F....
Sandra Holburn
Apr 26, 2021
Sandra Holburn, age 68, a Rock Island, TN resident and Hazard, KY native, was born May 30, 1952 and died April 26, 2021 at her residence following a brief illness. She was a medical assistant for Geriatric Consulting Group, a member of Fall City Baptist Church, and the daughter of the late Shafter Napier and Ouida Faye Wilson. In addition...
Joyce Ann Vest Burgess Sanders
Apr 25, 2021
Joyce Ann Vest Burgess Sanders, age 80, a Carrollton, MS resident and Richmond, VA native was born November 22, 1940 and died April 25, 2021 at Tyler Holmes Memorial Hospital in Winona, MS following a brief illness. She was a homemaker, and the daughter of the late Haywood and Blanche Townsend Vest. In addition to her parents, she was preceded...
Joe Nunley
Apr 23, 2021
Lifelong educator Joe Nunley, 75, passed Friday, April 23, 2021 after an extended illness. Mr. Nunley was born to the late Dr. Joe and Jessie DePriest Nunley in Durham, NC while his father was stationed there in the U.S. Army. They later moved home to McMinnville, TN where he attended elementary and middle school. By the early sixties, they had...
Mickey "Bear" Abair
Apr 22, 2021
Mickey “Bear” Abair, age 67, a McMinnville, TN resident and Rochester, Indiana native was born August 26, 1953 and died April 22, 2021 at his residence following a sudden illness. He was a retired forklift driver at Carrier Corporation, a member of West Riverside Church of God of Prophecy, and the son of the late Harold Ralph and Dorothy May...
Melba Maxine Mooneyham
Apr 19, 2021
Melba Maxine Mooneyham, age 73, a Cedar Grove Community resident of Spencer, TN and Warren County, TN native, was born November 7, 1947 and died April 19, 2021 at St. Thomas Midtown in Nashville following an extended illness. She was a retired team leader with the Department of Children’s Services, a member of Spencer Church of Christ, and the daughter...
Billy Eugene Mullins
Apr 19, 2021
Billy Eugene Mullins, age 85, a McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native, was born May 25, 1935 and died April 19, 2021 at St. Thomas River Park Hospital following a short illness. A retired employee of the Warren County and Cannon County Sheriff Departments and a retired veteran of the United States Navy and Tennessee National Guard, where...
Robert Lee Harris
Apr 16, 2021
Robert Lee Harris, age 76, a McMinnville, TN resident and Lenoir City, TN native, was born August 19, 1944 and died April 16, 2021 at Manchester Health Care Center in Manchester, TN following an extended illness. He was a retired supervisor with the State Highway Department, a member of East End Drive Church of Christ, and the son of the...
Alta Mae "Grace" McMahan
Apr 13, 2021
McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native Alta Mae “Grace” McMahan, age 95, was born June 1, 1925 and died April 13, 2021 following an extended illness at NHC Healthcare in McMinnville, TN. Owner of Pan Am Grill in McMinnville, TN and a member of Highland Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Ozias and Theo...
Jim Johnson
Apr 13, 2021
Mableton, GA resident and Columbia, TN native James Edward Johnson, Jr. age 64, was born October 12, 1956 and died April 13, 2021 at his residence following a sudden illness. Mr. Johnson is formerly of Warren County, TN. A computer software technician, he was the son of the late James Edward and Sara Frances Taylor Johnson. In addition to parents,...
Mary Edith Herriman
Apr 11, 2021
Mary Edith Herriman, age 93, a McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native was born September 9, 1927 and died April 11, 2021 at St. Thomas River Park Hospital following a sudden illness. She was retired from Genesco, a member of West Riverside Church of Christ, and the daughter of the late Edgar Lloyd and Sara Ann Cantrell. In...
Humphrey Davis McCormick, Jr.
Apr 9, 2021
Humphrey Davis McCormick, Jr., age 71, a McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native was born December 15, 1949 and died April 9, 2021 at St. Thomas Rutherford following an extended illness. He was a former inspector with Carrier Corporation, a United States Marine veteran, a member of Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and the son of the late H.D....
Ann Stevens
Apr 8, 2021
Ann Stevens, age 83, a Caribou, Maine resident and Warren County, TN native was born July 12, 1937 and died April 8, 2021 at Cary Medical Center in Maine following an extended illness. She was a retired self-employed housekeeper, a member of the Church of Christ, and the daughter of the late Rufus J. and Dovie Young Rains. In addition...
Jessica Nichole McGee Jacobs
Apr 8, 2021
McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native Jessica Nichole McGee Jacobs, age 39, was born April 14, 1981 and died April 8, 2021 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN following a brief illness. A medical laboratory technician and member of Smyrna Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Jessie Floyd McGee and June Taylor...
David Michael Lance, Sr.
Apr 7, 2021
Morrison, TN resident and Warren County, TN native David Michael Lance, Sr., age 66, was born May 29, 1954 and died April 7, 2021 at his residence following a sudden illness. A material handler at Nissan and member of Bates Hill Presbyterian Church, he was the son of the late Charles Martin and Stella Womack Lance. He was married to...
Thurman Lenier Scott, Jr.
Apr 7, 2021
Thurman Lenier Scott, Jr., age 87, a McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native, was born July 26, 1933 and died April 7, 2021 at his residence following a brief illness. He was a retired self-employed truck driver, a member of White Hall Bible Church, and the son of the late Thurman Lenier and Emma Kesey Scott, Sr. In...
Gary Young
Apr 4, 2021
McMinnville, TN resident and Somerset, KY native Gary Young, age 60, was born July 17, 1960 and died April 4, 2021 at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, TN following an extended illness. A truck driver with Titan Transfer, he was the son of the late Buddy Reece Young and Mary Jean Girdler Young of McMinnville, TN. In addition to his father,...
Charles Jackson Lee Chisam
Mar 28, 2021
Charles Jackson Lee Chisam, the infant son of Audrey Breanna Chisam and Cody Lee was born March 13, 2021 and died March 28, 2021 at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN. In addition to his parents, he is survived by maternal grandmother, Melissa & Mark Wright; maternal grandfather, David Lee Chisam; paternal grandparents, Amanda and Michael...
Frank Edward Scott
Mar 27, 2021
Mr. Scott, age 80, of Middleton, departed this life on Saturday afternoon, March 27, 2021 at his home. Born in Rutherford County, he was the son of the late Edward Brown Scott and Inez Winton Scott and had lived in Tennessee, Michigan, Kentucky and Illinois. He married Barbara June Ferrill on August 3, 1963 and had worked most of his...
Hugh Douglas Jones
Mar 27, 2021
McMinnville resident and Warren County native Hugh Douglas Jones, age 84, was born May 27, 1936 and died March 27, 2021 at St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital following a brief illness. A retired employee of DeZurik and member of East End Church of Christ, he was the son of the late John Robert and Ora Mai Tate Jones. He was married...
