Obituaries
McMinnville, TN. Obituaries
Local obituaries for McMinnville, TN and the surrounding areas
Sarah Frances Turner
Mar 3, 2021
Sarah Frances Turner, age 78, a McMinnville, TN resident and Dell Rose, TN native, was born April 27, 1942 and died March 3, 2021 at St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital following an extended illness. She was a homemaker, a member of the Baptist faith, and the daughter of the late Theodore and Nancy Pearl Chapman Powers. In addition to her parents,...
Winket Jefferson Tramel
Mar 2, 2021
Winket Jefferson Tramel of Huntsville, Alabama, died March 2, 2021, following complications from COVID. He was born in Dekalb County Tennessee on January 18, 1938, to Tallmer Petway Tramel and Ocie Hale Beckwith Tramel. He was married to the love of his life, Emily Jane Geer Tramel on June 15, 1958. He loved to tell everyone he met that he...
Jack Houston Locke, Sr.
Mar 2, 2021
Jack Houston Locke, Sr., age 86, a McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native was born May 14, 1934 and died March 2, 2021 at Alive Hospice in Murfreesboro following a brief illness. He retired from Ekco Glaco, LTD in 1998 after forty years of service as Vice President of National Accounts, was a United States Army veteran, a...
Helen Faye Broom Myers
Feb 28, 2021
McMinnville, TN resident and Cottondale, FL native Helen Faye Broom Myers, age 83, was born January 28, 1938 and died February 28, 2021 at her residence following an extended illness. A retired Winding Department employee with Century and member of Bonner Church of Christ , she was the daughter of the late Clarence and Annie Laura Sapp Broom. She was...
Sandra "Sandy" Carole Jones
Feb 26, 2021
Sandra “Sandy” Carole Jones, age 76 was born May 3, 1944 in Warren County, TN and died February 26, 2021 at home with her family in the Lucky Community. She was happily married to Ronald Hall Jones for 57 years. Sandy was the daughter of the late Robert “Bob” and Esther Meeks Jones. She was a retired secretary for Dr....
James Floyd "Jim" Simons
Feb 23, 2021
James Floyd “Jim” Simons, age 54, a McMinnville, TN resident and Detroit, MI native, was born December 19, 1966 and died February 23, 2021 at St. Thomas West following a sudden illness. He was the owner of Jim Simons Construction, a member of the Baptist faith, and the son of James Leonard “Pee Wee” and Shirley Yvonne Burtrum Simons of...
Emogene Simmons Hodges
Feb 22, 2021
Beloved Mother and Grandmother, Emogene Simmons Hodges, age 93, was born November 26, 1927 in Van Buren County, TN and died February 22, 2021 at St. Thomas Highlands Hospital in Sparta, TN following a brief illness. A retired dental assistant with the State of Tennessee, factory worker, former teacher at Laurel Creek Elementary in Van Buren County, TN, and member...
Gregory Dennis Rogers
Feb 18, 2021
Gregory Dennis Rogers, age 67, a Dayton, TN resident and Warren County, TN native, was born March 30, 1953 and died February 18, 2021 at his residence following an extended illness. He was a retired forklift operator with Don’s Foods, and the son of the late Sam Jones and Virginia Jeannette Cantrell Rogers, Jr. In addition to his parents, he...
Richard Paul Swim
Feb 17, 2021
Richard Paul Swim, age 50, a McMinnville, TN resident and Trenton, Michigan native, was born October 26, 1970 and died February 17, 2021 at his residence following a sudden illness. He was an information technology administrator, a master chef, and the son of Dorothy Harris and the late William Barry Swim. In addition to his mother, he is survived by...
Penelope Pavlik "Peni" Colville
Feb 16, 2021
Penelope Pavlik (“Peni”) Colville won her years-long battle with cancer on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, when she went home to be with God. Peni was born in Detroit, Michigan, on January 19, 1943, to the late John and Dorothy D. Pavlik of Southfield, Michigan. She attended East Tennessee State University, where she met her husband, Sam Colville, and graduated from...
Thelma Jean "T.J." Bishop
Feb 16, 2021
McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native Thelma Jean “T.J.” Bishop, age 72, was born February 27, 1948 and died February 16, 2021 at St. Thomas River Park Hospital in McMinnville, TN following an extended illness. A retired line leader from Vi-Jon, she was the daughter of the late Thomas H. and Dorothy M. Womack Grayson. She was married...
Lucy Avery Smith
Feb 15, 2021
Lucy Avery Smith, 86, of Smyrna, died Monday, February 15, 2021 at The Waterford Assisted Living in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Ms. Smith was born in DeKalb County, Tennessee to Henry Wright Avery and Sallie Mitchell Cope Avery on August 24, 1934. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by six half-brothers, Bennie, Lucky, Drophia, Kelly, Luther, and...
Emogene Certain Shiel
Feb 15, 2021
Emogene Certain Shiel, age 85, a Morrison, TN resident and Warren County, TN native was born May 5, 1935 and died February 15, 2021 at her residence following a brief illness. She was a retired inspector with Findlay Industries, a member of Victory Free Will Baptist Church, and the daughter of the late Gren Fletcher and Nettie May Lowery Certain....
Troy Steven Haston
Feb 9, 2021
Troy Steven Haston, age 70, a Rock Island, TN resident and Warren County, TN native, was born December 11, 1950 and died February 9, 2021 at Viviant Healthcare in Murfreesboro, TN following an extended illness. He was self-employed as a roofer, a member of McMinnville Missionary Baptist Church, and the son of the late William Douglas and Delma Ward Haston....
Norm Hutchins
Feb 8, 2021
Norm Hutchins, age 90, a McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native, was born November 8, 1930 and died February 8, 2021 at St. Thomas River Park Hospital following a sudden illness. He was retired from the Chrysler Corporation, the Warren County School System as the Transportation Supervisor, a lifelong farmer, a member of Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and...
Mamie Newman
Feb 7, 2021
Mamie Newman, age 85, a McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native was born June 10, 1935 and died February 7, 2021 at her residence following an extended illness. She was a homemaker, a member of the Church of Christ, attended the Presbyterian Church and was the daughter of the late Caleb Jackson and Delma Poss Prater. In addition...
Bobby Loyce Glenn
Feb 6, 2021
Morrison, TN resident and Grundy County, TN native Bobby Loyce Glenn, age 66, was born September 6, 1954 and died February 6, 2021 at Ascension St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital following an extended illness. A nurseryman with Harold B. Hillis Nursery, he was the son of the late Charlie Odell and Myrtle Henrietta Myers Glenn. He was married to Treva Ann...
Johnnie Belle White Bouldin
Feb 5, 2021
McMinnville resident and Warren County native Johnnie Belle White Bouldin, age 89, was born August 3, 1931 and died February 5, 2021 at St. Thomas River Park Hospital following a brief illness. The retired owner of Campaign Market and member of Campaign Church of God of Prophecy, she was the daughter of the late Ervin and Willie Ann Hale White....
Carl Edward Rackley
Feb 5, 2021
Carl Edward Rackley, age 80, a McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native, was born April 10, 1940 and died February 5, 2021 at his residence following an extended illness. He was a retired self-employed truck driver, a TN Army National Guard veteran, a member of The Vine Baptist Church, and the son of the late Colonel Bob and...
Brenda Kay Fisher
Feb 5, 2021
Brenda Kay Fisher, age 74, a McMinnville, TN resident and Warren County, TN native was born November 14, 1946 and died February 5, 2021 at St. Thomas River Park Hospital following a brief illness. She was a medical secretary, and the daughter of the late Joe Clyde and Jessie St. John Savage. In addition to her parents, she was preceded...
