Obituaries

Linda Kay Hamlin Worley, age 66, of Tullahoma, TN died Sunday, October 18, 2015. Ms. Worley was a native of Sherrill, IA and daughter of the late Harry and Naomi Irene Kalvig Hamlin. She enjoyed sewing and crafting, and was a member of the First United Methodist...

Graveside services for Mrs. Martha June Vann Glosson, age 83, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday, October 19, 2015 at 1 p.m. in Pleasant Hill Cemetery with Bro. Ray Gardner officiating. Mrs. Glosson passed away Friday, October 16, 2015 at her residence. Mrs....

Funeral service for Mr. Solon Howard Gaines, age 86, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday, October 19, 2015 at 10 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Bill Hunter and Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Giles Memory Gardens. Mr. Gaines passed away...

Funeral service for Mr. James Warren “J.W.” McBay, age 91, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Mike Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Kirkland Cemetery. Mr. McBay passed away Thursday,...

Funeral services for Paul Richard Stroud, age 74 of Flintville, will be conducted Saturday October 17, 2015 at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. John Neal officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. Mr. Stroud passed away Tuesday October 13, 2015...

Graveside memorial services for Thomas Hugh "Tom" Riley, age 49 of Tulsa, OK, formerly of Huntsville, will be conducted Saturday October 17, 2015 at 1PM at Rose Hill Cemetery with Rev. Richard Hughes officiating. Mr. Riley passed away at home in Tulsa, OK on September...

Funeral service for Mrs. Shelby Wells Cashion, age 78, of Petersburg, TN, will be conducted Monday, October 12, 2015 at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Old Orchard Cemetery in Petersburg, TN. Mrs. Cashion passed away Friday, October 9, 2015 at...

Funeral services for Douglas Leonard Young, age 72 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday October 13, 2015 at 11 AM at the Fayetteville First United Methodist Church with Rev. Will Wells officiating. Burial will follow in Old Orchard Cemetery beside his wife Edna...

Funeral services for Robert Eugene Fullerton, age 64 of Petersburg, will be conducted Saturday October 10, 2015 at 3PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Derrick Thompson and Bro. Steve Sorrells officiating. Burial will follow in Old Orchard Cemetery. Mr. Fullerton...

Funeral service for Mrs. Allis Fay Phillipson, age 66, of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 12 noon at Higgins Funeral Home, with Rev. Ken Staggs and Sis. Pat Staggs officiating. Burial will follow in Blanche Cemetery. Mrs. Phillipson passed...

Private graveside memorial services for Russell Donald “Don” Haynes, age 84 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday October 9, 2015 in Rose Hill Cemetery with Rev. Allen Black officiating. Mr. Haynes passed away Tuesday October 6, 2015 at his residence. He was a...

Funeral services for Mrs. Mara Suzanne Sawyers, age 64, of the Howell Community, will be conducted Monday, October 5, 2015 at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Don Hudson officiating. Burial will follow in Unity Cemetery. Mrs. Sawyers passed away Friday,...

Funeral services for Mary Evelyn Stewart Barnes, age 72 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday, October 2, 2015, at First Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Tennessee at 3:00 o’clock in the afternoon with Rev. Van Johnson and Chris Barnes officiating. Burial will...

Funeral service for Mr. Fred Kermit Sanders, age 80, of Huntsville, AL, will be conducted Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 10 a.m. at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church with Bro. Milton Martin and Bro. David Karr officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery....

Funeral service for Mrs. Virginia Powell Thrasher, age 87 of Flintville, will be conducted Tuesday September 29, 2015 at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home, with Rev. Milton Martin and Rev. Carlos Beddingfield officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery....

Funeral service for Mr. Luther Ellis Bates “The Bird Man”, age 83, of Fayetteville, will be conducted 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at Higgins Funeral Home. Bro. Roger Bates will officiate. Burial will follow in Stewart's Creek Cemetery. He passed away on...

A beloved mother, daughter and sister — Henri Loraine McElroy was born into this world in Mulberry, Tennessee on June 28, 1960. She was the daughter of the late Mr. Henry Leon Sebastian and Mrs. Beatrice Sebastian. She departed this life at the age of 55 on September...

Funeral services for Louise S. Taylor, age 90 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday September 25, 2015 at 11am at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Ed Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Prospect Cemetery beside her husband John Lloyd Taylor who passed away in...

Funeral service for Mrs. Elaine H. Green Hinds, age 78, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Kirkland Cemetery beside her late husband James B. Green. Mrs. Hinds passed away Saturday,...

Funeral service for Mrs. Lizzie C. McGee, age 97, of Mulberry, will be conducted Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home, with Bro. Ricky Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Booneville Cemetery beside her husband Eugene McGee. Mrs. McGee...

Funeral services for Mary Elizabeth Smith, age 91 of Flintville, will be conducted Thursday September 17, 2015 at 1 P.M. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Billy Langford and Rev. Josh Moran officiating. Burial will follow in Flintville Cemetery beside her husband...

Funeral services for Bernadette Jean Keib, age 81 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday September 17, 2015 at 10 AM at the St. Anthony Catholic Church with Father George officiating. Mrs. Keib passed away Saturday September 12, 2015 at St. Thomas West in...

Funeral services for Dorothy Jean Parks, age 78, of Fayetteville will be conducted Wednesday September 16, 2015 at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home. Bro. Don Pierson will officiate. Burial will follow in Gatlin Cemetery, next to her husband James Billy Parks who died in...

Graveside memorial service for Mr. Bobby Austin Thorpe, age 80, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 10 a.m. in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mr. Thorpe passed away Friday, September 11, 2015 at his residence. Mr. Thorpe was a...

It is with regret we announce the death of Verne Francis Eaton, age 69 of Fayetteville. Mr. Eaton passed away Sunday September 6, 2015 at his residence. He was born in England February 20, 1946 to Francis Lewis and Gloria Eileen Hemingbrough Eaton. Survivors include...

Funeral service for Mr. Clifford Earl Thompson, Jr., age 87, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday September 6, 2015 at 3 p.m. at Parks City Baptist Church, with Bro. Don Russell and Bro. Roy Butler officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens....

Graveside services for William Ellis Mitchell of Petersburg, will be conducted Friday, September 4, 2015 at 3 PM in Booneville Cemetery with Bro. Harold Davis officiating. Mr. Mitchell passed away Thursday, September 3, 2015. Mr. Mitchell was a native of Lincoln...

Graveside service for Mrs. Linda Sisk Flynt, age 67, of Hazel Green, AL, will be conducted Saturday, September 5, 2015 at 11 a.m. in Lebanon Cemetery with Bro. Tommy Graham officiating. Mrs. Flynt passed away Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at the Lincoln Medical Center....

Funeral service for Mr. James “Jim” Danny Moore, age 67, of the Booneville Community, will be conducted Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Booneville Cemetery. Mr. Moore passed away Saturday, August 29, 2015 at...

Funeral service for Mrs. Bernice Hall Gatlin Bates, age 87, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday, August 31, 2015 at 1 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Tim Smith and Jerry Gatlin officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Bates passed away...

Funeral services for Maxine Hancock, age 85 of Murfreesboro, will be conducted Sunday August 30, 2015 at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Mitchell Gardner. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Hancock passed away Thursday August 27, 2015 at St. Thomas...

Funeral services for Elizabeth Reed Ashby McGee, age 83 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday August 29, 2015 at 2 PM at the Coldwater Methodist Church with Rev. George Turke officiating. Burial will follow in Lebanon Cemetery. Mrs. McGee passed away Thursday...

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Elaine Bauer McDonald, age 72 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday August 29, 2015 at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tony Billions officiating. Burial will follow in Booneville Cemetery. Mrs. McDonald passed away Tuesday...

Funeral services for Lynda McAlister Sims Billingsley, age 72 of Smyrna, will be conducted Thursday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Pastor Ed Irwin officiating. Burial will follow in Sandlin Cemetery. Mrs. Billingsley passed away Monday August 24, 2015 in St....

Visitation for Reba Johnson Collins, age 88, of Fayetteville will be 12:00 p.m. until 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at Higgins Funeral Home. No funeral service will be held. Mrs. Collins passed away on Sunday, August 23, 2015 at Bailey Manor Assisted Living....

Graveside services for Kathryn Lucille Wade Raby, age 87 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday August 22, 2015 at 11 AM at Rose Hill Cemetery beside her husband Jack H. Raby, Sr. who passed away in 2000. Bro. Ricky Pierce will be officiating. Mrs. Raby passed...

It is with regret we announce the death of Michael Stacy Porter age 59 of Fayetteville. Mr. Porter passed away Wednesday morning August 19, 2015 at Fayetteville Care and Rehab Center. He was a native of Fort Sill, OK and the son of the Donald and Nina Moss Porter who...