Obituaries

Funeral services for Tammy Lyell Hanshaw, age 55 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Bobby Bates officiating. Burial will follow in Flintville Cemetery. Ms. Hanshaw passed away Wednesday at her residence. A native of...

Norman Zeigler of Fayetteville, Tennessee, formerly of Michigan, passed away February 3, 2014. Norman was born April 20, 1943 to Ralph and Lois Zeigler. He graduated from Onsted High School in 1961. Norman is survived by his wife Johanne; two brothers, Larry (Suzanne)...

Funeral services for Shirley Thompson, age 79 of Kelso, will be conducted Friday at 12:30 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. John Westerfield officiating. Burial will follow in the Hirlston Family Cemetery. Mrs. Thompson passed away Tuesday night in Donalson Care...

Funeral services for Mrs. Floy Miles Barnes, age 94 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 10:00 am at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Allen Black officiating. Burial will follow in Giles Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Barnes, known to her great...

Funeral services for Wanda Ruth Logan Powell, age 73 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Booneville Cemetery beside her husband R. C. Powell. Mrs. Powell passed away Friday evening at Vanderbilt Hospital. A...

John David Harper, Jr (Dave) died Tuesday, January 21, 2014 in Fayetteville TN. Dave was born in Etowah TN in 1926. He served as a Radioman in the Navy toward the end of WW2 aboard the USS Enterprise. After his discharge in 1946 he attended Tennessee Tech graduating...

Funeral services for Cecil W. Simms, age 75 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 3:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Don Schultz and Elks Lodge 1792 officiating. Burial will follow in Kirkland Cemetery. Mr. Simms passed away Wednesday at his...

Funeral services for Dr. Eugene Steinquest, age 85, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 1:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Mike Layne officiating. Burial will follow in Shelton Eaton Cemetery in Murfreesboro. Dr. Steinquest passed away Wednesday morning...

Funeral services for Thilma Inez Taylor Watson, age 84 a resident of Palm Harbor, FL, formerly of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11AM at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Shady Grove Cemetery beside her husband of 46 years Virgil Watson. Mrs....

Memorial services for Mrs. Ida Margaret Jennings Norman, age 79 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 2 PM at the Fayetteville Cumberland Presbyterian Church with Rev. Tim Smith officiating. Mrs. Norman passed away Monday at Lincoln Medical Center. A native...

Funeral service for Mrs. Frances Lorinda Killian Holder, age 81, of Flintville, will be conducted Friday at 2:00 pm at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Don Pierson officiating. Burial will follow in Mulberry Cemetery. Mrs. Holder passed away Monday at the Lynchburg...

Funeral services for Rickey M. Smith, age 58 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 12PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Eddie Graves and Bro. Lon Ostrzycki officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Ardmore, TN. Mr. Smith passed away Monday...

Funeral services for Jerry Malcolm Gatlin, age 70 of Taft, will be conducted Thursday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Paul Clayton officiating. Burial will follow in Blanche Cemetery. Mr. Gatlin passed away Saturday in St. Thomas Hospital. He was a native of...

Funeral services for Stephen Owen Noble, age 63 of Petersburg, will be conducted Thursday at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Troy Green officiating. Burial will follow in Unity Cemetery. Mr. Noble passed away Sunday night in Maury Regional Hospital in...

Funeral service for Mr. Gary T. Shockley, age 66, of Flintville, will be conducted Wednesday at 1:00 pm in the chapel of Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Charles Keller and Richard Wright officiating. Burial will follow in Shady Grove Cemetery. Mr. Shockley passed away...

Graveside services for Louise Virginia Hawkins Hurford, age 86 of Elora, will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2 PM at Clay Cemetery in Princeton, AL with Higgins Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Hurford passed away Wednesday in Huntsville Hospital. She was a native of...

Joe L. Land, age 84, of Hazel Green, AL, passed away peacefully Tuesday evening January 14, 2014 at Huntsville Hospital. Mr. Land was born August 7, 1929 in Lincoln County and was the son of the late George and Grace Carter Land. He was an army veteran serving in the...

Funeral services for Mrs. Diane Clark Pruitt, age 60 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Tom Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Wright Cemetery. Mrs. Pruitt passed away Monday afternoon in the comfort of her...

Funeral services for Sandra Louise Lambertson Mason, age 75, of Fayetteville, TN, will be conducted Friday, January 17 at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Ann Hatcher officiating.Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Mason passed away peacefully early...

Funeral service for Mrs. Jane Buchanan Jennings Vance age 70 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 12 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home, with Bro. Cedreck Davis and Bro. Arthur Hullett officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant View Cemetery. Mrs. Vance passed...

Funeral services for Lorine Shelton, age 65 of Flintville, will be conducted Sunday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery beside her husband Walter Shelton. Mrs. Shelton passed away Friday morning in Huntsville Hospital. A native of...

Graveside service for Martha Frances Harwell Noles, age 85 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 12:30 PM at Rose Hill Cemetery with Rev. Todd Jenkins officiating. Mrs. Noles passed away Tuesday at Donalson Care Center. Burial will be beside her husband of 54...

Funeral services for Russell George, age 92, of Fayetteville will be conducted Wednesday at 1:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Judge J.B. Cox and Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mr. George passed away Sunday night at...

A combined service for Mrs. Louise Self and her husband Mr. Lonnie Self will be conducted Monday at 1 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mrs Self passed away Thursday evening in Huntsville Hospital. Mr. Self...

Funeral services for Dorothy Bennett, age 74 of Flintville, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 PM at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Gum Springs Cemetery. Mrs. Bennett passed away Friday morning in Donalson Care Center. A native of Lincoln County, TN,...

Funeral service for Louise Self, age 75 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday afternoon at 1 PM at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Garden. Mrs. Self passed away Thursday in Huntsville Hospital. Mrs. Self was a native of...

Funeral services for Jean Swinford, age 73 of Taft, will be conducted Friday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with burial to follow in Kirkland Cemetery beside her husband William Edward Swinford who passed away in 2006. Mrs. Swinford passed away Wednesday morning in...

Funeral services for Elizabeth Lynn Holman Vainrib, age 42 of Cincinnati, OH, formerly of Fayetteville, TN. will be conducted Thursday at 2 PM at the Fayetteville First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Todd Jenkins officiating. Burial will follow in Wrights Cemetery....

Funeral services for Mrs. Frances Swift Gladish of Fayetteville, TN, will be conducted Thursday at 11:00 am at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Mrs. Gladish passed away peacefully at her home on Sunday, December 29, 2013. She was born in Bumpus...

Funeral services for Linda Leach, age 58 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 3 PM at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Leach passed away December 27th at Donalson Care Center. A native of Independence,...

Memorial services for Harold Armstrong, age 78 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 PM at the Howell Cumberland Presbyterian Church with Bro. Todd Gaskill officiating. Visitation with the family will be Sunday afternoon 2 PM until time of service...

Graveside service for Mr. Joe Askins Smith, age 30, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 2:00 pm in Medium Cemetery with Joe Wayne McGee officiating. Mr. Smith was welcomed by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nichols Smith on August 2, 1983. Joe Askins, lovingly...

Funeral services for Jimmy Wade Higgs, age 69 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Joe Wayne McGee officiating. Burial will follow in Wrights Cemetery. Mr. Higgs passed away Tuesday night in Huntsville Hospital. He was a...

It is with regret that we announce the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Sheeley, age 98 of Fayetteville. Burial will be Wednesday at 1:00 pm in Middle Tennessee Veterans Cemetery in Nashville beside her late husband Walter Leslie Sheeley. Mrs. Sheeley passed away Monday...

Funeral services for Lawrence Gilbert Porter, age 83 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 10 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Charles Jones officiating. Burial will follow in Prospect Cemetery beside his wife Carolyn Porter. Mr. Porter passed away...

Funeral service for Mrs. Marjorie Milam Clark, age 85 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black officiating.  Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her husband Henry Harwell Clark, who...

Funeral service for Jeff Young, age 54 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at Kirkland Baptist Church, with Robert Wright, Mac Rogers and Tom Norman officiating. Burial will follow in Kirkland Cemetery. Mr. Young passed away Thursday evening at...

Funeral services for Pauline E. Chapman, age 93 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Don Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Grove Cemetery beside her husband Charles Chapman. Mrs. Chapman passed...

Funeral service for Mr. Earl J. Vann age 94, of Vanntown, will be conducted Sunday at 2:00 pm at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church with Rev. Benny Berry officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery beside his wife Rachel Towry Vann who passed away in 1995. Mr....

It is with regret that we announce the death of Elsie Seagle, age 82, of Elora. A memorial service is planned for a later date. Mrs. Seagle passed away Saturday morning at her residence. Mrs. Seagle was a native of Illinois, the daughter of the late Aaron and Floye...