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Nancy Lou Jacobs Hudson
Funeral services for Nancy Lou Jacobs Hudson, age 89 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday June 4, 2015 at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Dwight Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery. Mrs. Hudson passed away Tuesday June 2, 2015 at...

Jean Holloway Hemphill
Memorial service for Mrs. Jean Holloway Hemphill, age 85, of McMinnville, TN, will be conducted 3:00 p.m. Saturday, June 6, 2015 at Higgins Funeral Home with Paul Roberts officiating. Mrs. Hemphill passed away Thursday, May 28, 2015 at Centennial Medical Center in...

William Eugene “Bill” Fullerton
William Eugene “Bill” Fullerton of Petersburg died Saturday May 30, 2015 at the age of 93. Mr. Bill, a loving husband, father, grandfather, son, brother, uncle and neighbor was a lifelong member of the Bledsoe “PoGrab” Church of Christ. Preceded in death in April 2012...
Richard Edward Lane
A memorial service for Mr. Richard Edward Lane, age 64, of Mulberry, will be conducted 2:00 p.m. Sunday, June 7, 2015 at Booneville United Methodist Church. Mr. Lane died Friday, May 29, 2015 in a farming accident while searching for a calf. He was the son of the late...

Junia Bea Baker
Funeral services for Junia Bea Baker, age 90 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday May 31, 2015 at 3 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. David Sain officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Cemetery. Mrs. Baker passed away Friday May 29, 2015 at...

Cayden Wesley Wayne Prince
Graveside service for Cayden Wesley Wayne Prince, age 1 month, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 11 a.m. in Valley View Memorial Gardens with Bro. James Strope officiating. Cayden passed away Thursday, May 28, 2015 at the Lincoln Medical...

William Knox Moore, Jr.
Funeral service for Mr. William Knox Moore, Jr. age 85, of Howell, will be conducted Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tim Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Unity Cemetery. Mr. Moore passed away Thursday, May 28, 2015 at St....

Mike “River” Reagan
Visitation for Mr. Mike “River” Reagan, age 61, of Fayetteville,will be Wednesday May 27, 2015 from 11:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home. Graveside service will be 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, at Elora Cemetery with Rev. Don Russell officiating. Mr. Reagan...

John L. Smith Jr.
Funeral service for Mr. John L. Smith Jr., age 86, of Fayetteville, will be conducted at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at Higgins Funeral Home, with Rev. Kirk Smith officiating. Burial will follow in the Flintville Cemetery. Mr Smith passed away Monday, May 25,...

Barry Glenn Williams
Graveside service for Mr. Barry Glenn Williams, age 54, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Prospect Cemetery with Bro. James Strope officiating. Mr. Williams passed away Saturday, May 23, 2015 at his residence. Mr. Williams was a native of Lincoln...

Hazel Hambrick Simms
Funeral services for Hazel Hambrick Simms, age 80 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Don Schultz officiating. Burial will follow in Kirkland Cemetery. Mrs. Simms passed away Monday, May 18, 2015 at...

Glenda June Horsley
Funeral services for Glenda June Horsley, age 76 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Ennis Hyman officiating. Mrs. Horsley passed away Thursday, May 14, 2015 in Huntsville Hospital after an extended...

Ralph Sterling Lester
Funeral services for Ralph Sterling Lester, age 86, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. at the Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Ray Gardner officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mr. Lester passed away Saturday, May 9,...

Ernest Eady
ERNEST EADY, entered into rest on Thursday, May 8, 2015 in Nashville, TN surrounded by family. “Pops” as he was affectionately called was born on February 8, 1934 to the late Morris and Ella Eady in Lynchburg. Ernest was a 1955 graduate of West End High School....

Marjorie Richardson Stevenson
Funeral service for Marjorie Richardson Stevenson, age 89 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday May 6, 2015 at 3 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Dr. Ronnie Gay officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Stevenson passed away Sunday May 3,...

Mary C. Groce
Funeral service for Mrs. Mary C. Groce, age 89, of Lebanon, TN, will be conducted Tuesday May 5, 2015 at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home, with Bro. Ronnie Thomas officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her late husband Glen Groce. Mrs....

Wilma Eloise Roland Pigg
Funeral service for Mrs. Wilma Eloise Roland Pigg, age 95 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday May 6, 2015 at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home, with Rev. Don Russell. Burial will follow in Rowland Hills Cemetery. Mrs. Pigg passed away Saturday May 2, 2015 at...

Wanda G. Rowell
Graveside services for Wanda G. Rowell, age 56 of Watseka, IL, will be conducted Friday May 8, 2015 at 11 a.m. at Kirkland Cemetery with Rev. Jeremy Hudgins officiating. Miss Rowell passed away Wednesday April 22, 2015 at Iroquois Memorial Hospital. She was a native...

Juanita Burns Mitchell
Funeral service for Juanita Burns Mitchell, age 89 of Frankewing will be conducted Friday May 1, 2015 at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Pastor Monty Franklin officiating. Burial will follow in Wrights Cemetery beside her husband Otis B. Mitchell who passed away...

Judith Sevier Weston Fowler
Funeral service for Judith Sevier Weston Fowler, age 74, of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 2 p.m. at the Fayetteville Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Reverend Bryan Bult of Fayetteville and Dr. Leslie Holmes of Augusta, GA will...

Lorraine Barrett Nichols
Funeral service for Lorraine Barrett Nichols, age 77 of Petersburg, will be conducted Wednesday April 29, 2015 at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jeff Rasnick and Bro.Tim Forsythe officiating. Burial will follow in Old Orchard Cemetery. Mrs. Nichols passed...

Helena Goodrich Bryson
Daity Helena Goodrich Bryson was born on Wednesday, February 3rd, 1932, to Henrietta Louise Robinson Goodrich Allen and William Lawrence Goodrich, Sr., in Fayetteville, TN, the eldest of five children. She was the valedictorian of her graduating class of 1950 at West...

Emmett Berry Bedwell, Jr.
Graveside service for Mr. Emmett Berry Bedwell, Jr., age 87, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. in Rose Hill Cemetery with Gage Engle and Jerry Howard officiating. Mr. Bedwell passed away Friday, April 24, 2015 at St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital. Mr....
Dorothy Dorociak
It is with regret that we announce the death of Mrs. Dorothy Dorociak, age 93, of Elora, TN. Mrs. Dorociak passed away Thursday, April 23, 2015 at the Donalson Care Center. Mrs. Dorociak was a native of Hammond, IN, the daughter of the late Clarence and Lillie Blanck...

Floyd Wilson Cartwright
Graveside service for Mr. Floyd Wilson Cartwright, age 82 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. in Lincoln Cemetery with Bro. James Strope officiating. Mr. Cartwright passed away Thursday April 23, 2015 at his residence. A native of Lincoln County, he...

Buford Scivally
Graveside service for Mr. Buford Scivally, age 89 of Flintville, will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. graveside in Hurricane Cemetery with Bro. James Strope officiating. Mr. Scivally passed away Saturday April 18, 2015 at Lincoln Medical Center. A native of Franklin...

Doris Taft
Funeral services for Doris Jane Currin Taft, 92, of Taft will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 21 at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Blanche Cemetery beside her late husband, Charles E. Taft. Mrs. Taft died Friday at Lynchburg Nursing Center. She was...

William “Bill” Hentz
Funeral service for William “Bill” Hentz, age 82 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday April 17, 2015 at 10 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. James Barnes officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mr. Hentz passed away Tuesday...

Joseph Medric Caissie, Jr.
Funeral service for Joseph Medric Caissie, Jr., age 64 of Elora, will be conducted Thursday April 16, 2015 at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Milton Martin officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Mr. Caissie passed away Monday April 13,...

Marlon Dwayne Laten
Funeral service for Marlon Dwayne Laten, age 69 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday April 16, 2015 at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Dr. Ronnie Gay officiating. Burial will follow in Prospect Cemetery. Mr. Laten passed away Monday April 13, 2015 at...

Teresa Lynn Sims
Funeral service for Teresa Lynn Sims, age 43 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday April 12, 2015 at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Prosperity Cemetery. Ms. Sims passed away Friday morning April 10, 2015 at...

Melanie Thomas Hamilton
Funeral service for Melanie Thomas Hamilton, age 57 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday April 11, 2015 at 10 a.m. at the Fayetteville Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church with Rev. Bryan Bult officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mrs....

Marilyn Doris Krause Hecht
Funeral services for Marilyn Doris Krause Hecht, age 84 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday, April 11, 2015, at 12:00 pm. at Higgins Funeral Home with Pastor Bernard Ansorge officiating. Burial will follow in Medium Cemetery. Mrs. Hecht passed away Monday...
Phillip Murry Hill
Funeral service for Phillip Murry Hill, age 72 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday April 9, 2015 at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Milton Martin officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Mr. Hill passed away Monday April 6, 2015 at...

Elizabeth Howard
Funeral service for Elizabeth Howard, age 90 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday April 8, 2015 at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Ian Ploxham. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery beside her husband Clark Howard. Mrs. Howard passed away Saturday...

William Homer Davis
Funeral service for Mr. William Homer Davis, age 76, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. David Arrington officiating. Burial will follow in Lebanon Cemetery. Mr. Davis passed away Saturday in...

Robert Coleman (Bob) Smith, Jr.
Funeral service for Robert Coleman ( Bob) Smith, Jr., age 87 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday April 4, 2015 at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Kirk Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery. Mr. Smith passed away Tuesday March 31, 2015...

William Melvin McAlister
Graveside service for William Melvin McAlister, age 74 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday April 2, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. at Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Mr. McAlister passed away Monday March 30, 2015 at Donalson Skill...

Judy Kidd Walden
Funeral service for Mrs. Judy Kidd Walden, age 68 of Huntsville, AL, will be conducted Wednesday April 1, 2015 at 11 a.m. at the Prosperity Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church with Dr. Charles Edgar officiating. Mrs. Walden will lie in state one hour prior to...

Barnum “Barney” Cowan
Memorial service for Mr. Barnum “Barney” Cowan, age 77, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 11 a.m. at Gum Springs Baptist Church with Rev. Winford Staton officiating. Mr. Cowan passed away Friday, March 27, 2015 in Huntsville Hospital. Mr....