Obituaries

Willard “Ed” Edwards, born September 20, 1931, passed from this life on June 3, 2023, for his permanent heavenly home. He was the youngest of 11 children born to the late Alice Sue Hucks Edwards and William Everett Edwards. Ed was born and raised in Madison County,...

Graveside service for Raymond Junior Swinford, age 80, of Fayetteville, TN, will be held at 11 AM on Saturday, June 3, 2023, at Kirkland Cemetery. There will be no visitation prior to the graveside service. Raymond was born on November 18, 1942, in Fayetteville, TN to...

Funeral service for Teresa Kay Groce Reese, age 64, of the Mimosa Community, will be held at 1 PM on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. James West officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Teresa was born on...

It is with regret we announce the passing of Pamela Jo Luna Henderson, aka Lucy, age 74, of Fayetteville, TN. Mrs. Henderson was born on February 2, 1949, in Huntsville, AL and passed away on May 26, 2023, at her residence, surrounded by her loving family. Pamela...

Graveside service for Kenneth Wayne Thorpe, age 84, of Frankewing, TN will be held at 2pm on Thursday, May 25, 2023, at Storey Cemetery with Rev. John Sanders officiating. There will be no visitation with the family prior to the service. Wayne was born January 18,...

Funeral service for Anthony Todd Jones, age 54, of Fayetteville, TN will be held at 11am on Saturday, May 27, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. David England and Grady Wright officiating. Burial will be at 2pm on Saturday at Short Cemetery. Visitation with the...

Funeral service for Thomas Harold Quick, age 78, of Fayetteville, TN will be held at 11am on Thursday, May 25, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tim Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Barnes Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be held on Wednesday,...

A celebration of life for Anthony Sullivan Goode, age 32, of Decatur, AL, formerly of Fayetteville, TN, will be held at 2 PM on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Rex Terry officiating. Burial will follow in the Rose Hill Cemetery. Visitation with the...

A memorial service for Ronald Wayne West, age 79, of Fayetteville, TN will be held at 1:00 PM on Friday, May 19, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home. Visitation with the family will be from 12:00 PM until the time of service on Friday at Higgins. Private interment will take...

Funeral service for Mrs. Barbara Jean Kent Gleghorn, age 86, of Petersburg, TN will be held at 2pm on Monday, May 8, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Anthony Gleghorn officiating. Burial will follow in Wright’s Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 12pm...

We regret to announce the passing of Mrs. Joe Allen Smith Holt, age 90, of Fayetteville, TN. Mrs. Holt was born October 2, 1932, in the Taft area of Lincoln County, TN to the late Hubert Farris Smith and Tennye Hardin Smith. She was raised in the Coldwater community,...

Funeral service for Kay R. Ward-Woods, age 80, of Fayetteville, TN will be held at 2pm on Sunday, May 7, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Pastor Danny Green officiating. Burial will follow in Stewart Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be held from 5pm until...

Funeral service for Mrs. Annette Hawthorne Stevenson, age 88, of Fayetteville, TN will be held at 10am on Thursday, May 4, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tim Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Visitation with the family will...

Kaylon Jean Owens Luttrell passed away on December 1, 2022 at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola. She was born on August 14, 1960 in Lincoln County to Randall and Shelby Owens Brewer. As a child, Kaylon dealt with wearing braces for a condition she was born with and...

A funeral service for Mrs. Joyce Marie Spray, age 78, of Fayetteville, TN will be conducted Sunday, April 30, 2023, at 2:00 PM, at Higgins Funeral Home, with Bro. Don Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Lebanon Cemetery, beside her husband, William Wilson...

Funeral service for Mr. James L. “Jimmy” Daniel, age 86, of Taft, TN, will be held at 2 PM on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Roger Bates and Bro. Roger Berry officiating. Burial will follow in the Blanche Cemetery. Visitation with the...

It is with regret we announce the passing of Mr. Francis Earl Henderson, Jr., age 82, of Fayetteville, TN, formerly of Maryland. Francis was born December 30, 1940, in Potomac, MD to the late Francis Earl, Sr. and Ella Mae Linthicum Henderson. He owned and operated a...

Funeral service for Mrs. Lillie Sue Daniel, age 82, of Taft, TN will be held at 2pm on Friday, April 21, 2023, at Mable Hill Baptist Church with Dr. Mike Clark and Bro. Roger Bates officiating. Burial will follow in Blanche Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be...

It is with regret we announce the passing of Sara Andrea Long, age 77, of Sun City, FL, formerly of Fayetteville, TN. A memorial visitation will be held from 1 PM until 3 PM on Saturday, April 22, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home, in Fayetteville, TN. Andrea was born on...

Sara Deane Mills Cook, age 83 of Fayetteville, TN entered eternal life in Heaven on April 11, 2023. Sara was born on April 29, 1939, and was the daughter of the late Shielly Joe and Ruth Virginia Winford Mills. She was a member of the Harmony Hill Church of God and...

A funeral service for Birdie Lee Johnson, age 79, of the Molino Community, will be held at 1 PM on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tommy Vann and Rev. Ann Hatcher officiating. Visitation with the family will be from 11am to 1pm on Tuesday at...

Sadie Jean Gann Lyle was born December 30, 1934, in Winchester, TN to the late Oscar and Annie Campbell Gann. She was a member of Franklin County First Baptist Church. Sadie worked as a secretary and at the Fayetteville-Lincoln County Public Library for many years,...

Jane Parker Brown was born February 22, 1937, to Farnelle McGee Lane and Lewis Lane.  Before her second birthday she won her first of many beauty awards.  She spent her childhood attending schools in Fayetteville, TN. She was in the graduating class of...

Doris Bridges Newman Harris was born February 27, 1933, to Russell and Myrtle Bridges in Huntsville, Alabama. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband and father of her children, Robert (Daddy Bob) Newman, daughter Pat Newman Daniel, and...

Funeral service for Mrs. Patsy Phillips Gilliam, age 75, of Fayetteville, TN will be conducted at Higgins Funeral Home Friday, April 7 at 1pm with Rev. Doug Watt officiating. Visitation with the family will be from 11am to 1pm. Burial will follow in Rose Hill...

A graveside service for Mrs. Virginia Ann Mills, age 89, of Mt Juliet, TN will be held at 3pm on Monday, April 3, 2023, at Riverview Memorial Gardens. Visitation with the family will be held from 1pm until 2:30pm on Monday at Higgins. Virginia was born January 15,...

Funeral service for Norma Jean Roles Wright, age 70, of Fayetteville, TN will be held at 1pm on Sunday, April 2, 2023, with Bro. David England officiating. Burial will follow on Wright Way Farm. Visitation with the family will be held from 4pm to 7pm on Saturday,...

Funeral service for Amy Jane Brooks Wilkerson Davis, age 46, of Hazel Green, AL will be held at 1pm on Thursday, March 30, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Greg Wiser officiating. Visitation with the family will be held from 11am to 1pm on Thursday at Higgins....

A memorial service for Shirley D. Kimbrough, age 80, of Flintville, TN will be held at 1pm on Saturday, April 1, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Pastor Ron Wood and Reverend Bobby White officiating. Visitation with the family will be from 11am to 1pm on Saturday at...

Funeral service for Steven Earl Whorley, age 63, of Fayetteville, TN, will be held at 2 PM on Thursday, March 23, 2023, at Fayetteville First Baptist Church, with Dr. Jon Hathcock officiating. Burial will follow in the Old Orchard Cemetery.  Visitation with the...

Funeral service for Carol Ann Wolaver Shelton, age 79, of Fayetteville, TN will be held at 3pm on Sunday, March 26, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Ryan Tate officiating. Burial will follow at Lincoln Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 1pm until 3pm...

Mary Jane (Clark) Connelly, age 90 of Fayetteville, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, March 19, 2023.  A native of Cornersville, TN, Mrs. Connelly was the daughter of the late J.P. and Lois Wilkes Clark, was a retired bank branch manager and a member...

Christopher Lane Vessell went to be with his Lord and Savior on Sunday, March 19, 2023, at the age of 72 as a result of cancer. He was a resident of Flintville, Tennessee where he was raised and lived most of his adult life.  Chris was born to the late L.B. and...

Funeral service for Barbara Jean Holman Monks, age 89, of Fayetteville, TN, will be held at 1 PM on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jeremy Hudgins officiating. Burial will follow in the Kirkland Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be...

A celebration of life for Treva Loraine Colbert, age 61, of Fayetteville, TN, will be held at 1 PM on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Greg Wiser officiating. Visitation with the family will be from 11 AM until 1 PM on Wednesday at Higgins....

We regret to announce the passing of Donald Bailey Eakin, age 82, of Petersburg, TN. A private burial was held at Old Orchard Cemetery in Petersburg. Donald was born November 25, 1940, in Lincoln County, TN to the late Joseph D. Eakin, Sr. and Marjorie Bailey Eakin of...

Graveside service for George McLellan Bush, age 68, of Fayetteville, TN will be held at 11am on Saturday, March 18, 2023, at Colbert Memorial Gardens with Rev. William R. Talley officiating. Visitation with the family will be from 4pm to 8pm on Friday at Higgins....

Jeannine Hopkins Warren, 82, of Huntsville, AL, passed away on March 12, 2023. Jeannine was predeceased by her parents, Jack and Flavia, her brother Billy Gayle Hopkins, her sisters, Jackie Hopkins Schrimsher and Sandra Hopkins Bell. She is survived by her husband,...

We regret to announce the passing of Dr. Fredric Hallie Clark, age 78, of Fayetteville, TN. A funeral service will be held at 3pm on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at Higgins Funeral Home with Pastor Ronnie Brewer and Bro. Todd Gaskill officiating. A private family burial...