Obituaries

Funeral service for Eddie Harness, age 78 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Fayetteville First Baptist Church with Rev. Van Johnson and Rev. Ed Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in New Sharon Cemetery in Hazel Green, AL. Mr. Harness...

Magdelene Mustard Sparks, age 83, of New Market, Alabama formerly of Vanceburg, Kentucky went to be with the Lord on November 28, 2014 at Huntsville Hospital in Huntsville, Alabama with her family by her side. Mrs. Sparks was born on March 3, 1931 to the late Ollie...

Funeral service for Mr. JC Stewart, age 65, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Tim McPeters officiating. Burial will follow in Lynchburg Cemetery. Mr. Stewart passed away Thursday at his residence, surrounded by...

Funeral services for Mr. Thomas E. Sanders, age 86, of Fayetteville, will be conducted conducted Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Will Wells and Rev. Ann Hatcher officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mr. Sanders passed...

Graveside service for Nina Ruth Smith Bedwell, age 78 of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at Rose Hill Cemetery with Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Mrs. Bedwell passed away Wednesday morning at her residence. A native of Lincoln County, she was the...

Memorial service for Larry Dale Campbell, age 63 of Petersburg, will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Christian Fellowship Church, 10 Lincoln Rd, Fayetteville, with Doug Watt officiating. Mr. Campbell passed away Tuesday night in Huntsville Hospital. He was a...

Visitation for Cheyenne Bailey, age 20, of Huntsville, AL, formerly of Fayetteville, will be Sunday afternoon from 2 until 4 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home. Miss Bailey passed away Thursday in Huntsville, AL. A native of Marshall County, TN, she was the daughter of...

Graveside service for Rudolph John (Rudy) Greer, age 83 of Huntsville, will be conducted Saturday at 1 p.m. at Rose Hill Cemetery with Bro. Richard Hughes officiating. Mr. Greer passed away Wednesday morning in Huntsville Hospital. A native of Kansas City, MO, he was...

Funeral services for Winford Claiborne, age 88 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 10 a.m. at the West Fayetteville Church of Christ with Bro. Tom Holland officiating. Visitation with the family will be Thursday 5-8 p.m. at the church building. Bro Claiborne...

Funeral service for Joe W. West, age 83 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mr. West passed away Monday night in the Lynchburg...

It is with regret we announce the death of Thomas Earl Sykes, age 74 of Elora. Mr. Sykes passed away at his residence on Sunday November 16, 2014. He was the son of the late Maurice and Mary Sykes, veteran of the U.S. Army and was a military construction engineer for...

It is with regret that we announce the death of Jason W. Whitworth, age 26, of Fayetteville. Mr. Whitworth passed away Thursday at his residence. A native of Lincoln County, he was the son of Angie Largura and Roger Whitworth, worked in receiving for C and S Plastics...

Funeral services for Robert W. “Bob” Forrester, age 83 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 10 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Tony Billions officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Mr. Forrester passed away Monday night in Huntsville...

Funeral service for Martha (Jean) Smith, age 75, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Roger Bates officiating. Burial will follow in Booneville Cemetery. Mrs. Smith passed away Sunday evening at Donalson Care Center....

Funeral services for James B. Norris, age 81 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Mike Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mr. Norris passed away Sunday in...

William “Bill” Howard Bogle, 70, returned to his heavenly home on Saturday, November 8th, after a valiant battle with multiple health issues. Funeral services will be 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 11 at Prospect Baptist Church with Dr. Ronnie Gay officiating. Burial...

William A. March, Sr. 57, of Middletown, Maryland, passed away peacefully on Thursday morning after a long illness, November 6, 2014, at his home. Born on December 14, 1956, in Fayetteville, Tennessee, he was the son of the late Frank and Alberta (Jones) March....

Memorial service for James Brannon Templeton, age 35 of Taft, will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Fayetteville First Baptist Church with Rev. Van Johnson and Chad Hancock officiating. Mr. Templeton passed away Friday, November 7, 2014 at Vanderbilt Medical Center....

Funeral services for Donnie Ray “Shorty” West, age 62 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 1 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Dwight Smith officiating.  Burial will follow at Kirkland Cemetery. Mr. West passed away Wednesday in Vanderbilt Medical...

Nell C. Graves, age 73 of Fayetteville TN, passed away Wednesday at Donalson Care Center. Services will be conducted Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Missy Williams officiating. Burial will follow in Concord Baptist Church Cemetery in Tullahoma. Mrs....

Graveside services for James Lawrence Patrick, age 85 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Stewarts Cemetery with Bro. James Strope officiating. Mr. Patrick will be buried beside his wife Martha Pollock Patrick who passed away in 2011. Higgins...

Graveside service for Albert Wayne Simms, age 86 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 12 p.m. at Stewarts Cemetery with Bro. Don Gatlin officiating and with Higgins Funeral Home in charge. Mr. Simms passed away Saturday at his residence. He was a native of...

  Services of Bernard Mazelin, age 88 of Moore County, will be conducted Thursday at 9:30 a.m. at the Moore County Mennonite Brotherhood Church with Bro Raymond Sommers officiating. Burial will follow in the Moore County Mennonite Cemetery. Mr. Mazelin passed...

Funeral services for Mr. DB Smith, age 83, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Champ Cemetery. Mr. Smith passed away Friday evening in Huntsville Hospital. Mr. Smith was a native of Lincoln County, the...

Graveside service for Mildred Doloras Eades Giesing, age 77 of Petersburg, will be conducted Thursday at 1 p.m. at Lebanon Cemetery with Higgins Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Giesing passed away Monday at Fayetteville Health and Rehab. She was a native of Watseka, IL,...

Funeral services for Myra Temple Hyman will be held Friday October 31, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home Chapel, Fayetteville, TN with Reverend Don Hackney officiating. Graveside viewing will be from12:30 to 1:30 Saturday, at Forest Lawn Memory Gardens in...

Funeral services for Mrs. Mona Evelyn Flynt, age 81, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with David Sain and Mark Massey officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Flynt passed away Sunday evening,...

Service for Lynn Steelman Towery, age 78, of Hermitage, will be conducted Monday at 1 p.m. at Prospect Cemetery with Dr.  Ronnie Gay officiating. Grandsons wills serve as pallbearers. A native of Lincoln County, she was the daughter of the late Perry Freeman and...

Service for Ty Fikes age 21, of Taft, will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Pastor Don Gray officiating. Mr. Fikes passed away Saturday at Lincoln Medical Center. A native of Lincoln County, he was the son of Chris and Stefanie Swinford...

Funeral services for Clarence Eurcil Shelton, age 85 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 12 p.m. the Park City Church of Christ with Bro. Paul Clayton officiating. Burial will follow in the Lincoln Cemetery. Mr. Shelton passed away Monday night at his...

Danny Cecil Owens, age 72, passed from this life into eternal glory on Sunday October 19, 2014 at the Huntsville Hospital following a hard fought battle with cancer. He was born in Lincoln County on February 6, 1942 to William Cody and Evelyn Benson Owens. Mr. Owens...

Funeral services for Wilson Monks, age 85 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 12 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Ed Johnson and Dr. Ronnie Gay officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Mr. Monks passed away Friday morning in Donalson...

Graveside services for Martha Hall Thompson, age 84 of Huntsville, will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at Wrights Cemetery with Higgins Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Thompson passed away Tuesday at Huntsville Hospital. She was a native of Giles County, and was the...

Funeral services for Austin Oral Eslick, age 82 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside his wife Margaret Jean Tipps Eslick who passed...

Funeral services for Phillip Dolan Armstrong, age 76 of the Bellville community, will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Tony Billions and Bro. Milton Martin officiating. Burial will follow in Melson Cemetery. Mr. Armstrong passed away...

Funeral services for Kathy J. Talley, age 61 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Miss Talley passed away Friday in Vanderbilt Medical Center....

Nannie Hart Ashby was born January 3rd, 1913 in Lincoln County around the Gimlet community. She was the oldest child of Clarence and Elma Hart Ashby. Her brother was Charles Truman Ashby and her sister was Fannie Reba Ashby Patton. Nannie Hart grew up learning all...

Funeral services for Tim Cowan, age 43, of Winchester, TN, will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Mike Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Carter Hill Cemetery. Mr. Cowan passed away Saturday evening at River Park Hospital in...

Funeral services for Virginia A. Burns, age 85, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Don Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Prospect Cemetery beside her late husband Mac McCutcheon. Mrs. Burns passed away...