Obituaries

  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...

Graveside services for Blanche Vanzant Duke age 94 of Gallatin, formerly of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 11a.m. at Riverview Memorial Gardens with Bro. Bill Hunter officiating. Mrs. Duke passed away Monday in Gallatin Health Care. A native of...

Funeral services for Clemma McGee, age 92 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Roger Bates officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mrs. McGee passed away Thursday at Lincoln Medical Center. A...

Funeral services for William Randall “Runt” Posey, age 63 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Willard Medley and Kerry Pruett officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Flintville, TN. Mr....

  Funeral service for Imogene Holman, age 95 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Dickey Sebastion officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant View Cemetery. Miss Holman passed away Monday in Lincoln Care Center....

Clay McAlister of Pulaski passed away on Saturday, September 6, 2014 in Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN. He was born on June 5, 1945 in Lincoln County and was 69 years old. He was with the City Police Dept. in Lewisburg in the late 1960’s. In 1970 he was...

  Johnnie Mae Waggoner Carter was born December 11, 1931 and departed this life September 7, 2014 at her residence. She was a native of Kelso, TN and the daughter of the late Morris and Cordelia Smith  Waggoner. She was a graduate of West End High School and...

It is with regret that we announce the death of Allen Harlow, Jr., age 65, of Fayetteville. Mr. Harlow passed away Saturday at his residence. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Higgins Funeral Home.

Funeral services for Peggy Ernestine Mann, age 82, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery beside her husband of 55 years Ralph Mann who passed away in...

Funeral services for Fred Hickson, age 87, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Don Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mr. Hickson passed away Sunday morning at his residence. Mr....

Funeral services for Mattie Lou Warren, age 86 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Kirk Smith and Johnny Tucker officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery beside her husband of 62 years, James...

Funeral services for Ryan Wesley Sherrer, age 21 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Roy Hopkins officiating. Burial will follow in Lebanon Cemetery. Mr. Sherrer passed away Wednesday in an auto accident. Mr....

Funeral services for Edna Estelle Crouch Williams, age 85 of Columbia, will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Bob Vassar officiating. Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery beside her husband W. H. Williams, Jr. Mrs. Williams passed away...

Graveside services for Ms. Julia Fay Warren, age 74 of Mulberry, will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. at Booneville Cemetery with Bro. Pete Crim officiating. Ms. Warren passed away Saturday evening at Donalson Care Center. A native of Lincoln County, the daughter of the...

Funeral service for Mr. Jimmie Groce Reed, age 77 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mr. Reed passed away in Harton Regional Hospital Thursday...

It is with regret that we announce the death of Paxton Pirtle, age 35, of Taft, TN. Mr. Pirtle passed away Friday evening at his residence. He was a native of Huntsville, TX, the son of Judy Whitsett Pirtle and the late Danny Pirtle. Survivors include his mother Judy...

Funeral services for Jeffrey Keith May, age 44 of Lynchburg, will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Fayetteville First Baptist Church with Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Lebanon Cemetery. Mr. May passed away Saturday at Vanderbilt Medical...

Funeral service for Mrs. Virginia Mason Grant Smith, age 98, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 3 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Maxwell Cemetery beside her husband Davis Grant. Mrs. Smith passed away Saturday...

Funeral service for Mrs. Joyce Henson, age 85, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Will Wells and Janine Wilson officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Henson passed away Saturday evening at Alive...

Graveside service for Mr. Bobby Lee Hazelwood, age 75, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 12 p.m. in Raby Cemetery with Bro. James Strope officiating. Mr. Hazelwood passed away Tuesday evening at Donalson Skill Care. Mr. Hazelwood was a native of Lincoln...

Funeral services for Mattie Florence Jester Johnson, age 92 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Tim Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her husband Rollie Cullum Johnson. Mrs....

Memorial service for Dolores “Dee” Thaxton White, age 79 of Petersburg, will be conducted Thursday at 3 p.m. at the 1st United Methodist Church Fayetteville. Mrs. White passed away Monday at Lincoln Medical Center. She was a native of Barnesville, GA, a dental...

Mrs. Doris Parks Taylor entered into eternal peace on Monday August 18, 2014, at her home after a long illness. Doris was born on December 30, 1952 to the late James Edward and Dimple L. C. Parks. Her kind, sweet and infectious personality endeared her to everyone who...

Funeral service for Mrs. Laura Ethel Buchanan, age 80 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 4 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home, with Pastor Theodore Brown officiating. Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery. Mrs. Buchanan passed away Saturday morning at her...