Obituaries

It is with regret we announce the death of Mrs. Lena Scott Daniel, age 102 of Fayetteville, who passed away Wednesday afternoon at her residence. Funeral services will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black officiating....

Memorial services for Karen Jared Parsons, age 58 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday evening at 6 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with David Bagley and Rev. Tim Smith officiating with burial to follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Parsons passed away Monday...

Funeral service for Mrs. Donna Jo Bishop, age 61 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday, August 19, 2013 at 3:00 pm at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro.Tom Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Wright's Cemetery. Mrs. Bishop passed away Friday evening in...

Memorial service for Mrs. Mailene P. Smith, age 88 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday, August 18, 2013 at 2:00 pm at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Van Johnson and Rev. Tim Smith officiating. Mrs. Smith passed away Friday evening at Lincoln Medical Center. A...

Funeral services for James Bennett Gattis, age 23 of Nashville formerly of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Brett Miles officiating. Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery. Mr. Gattis passed away Saturday. He was a...

Graveside service for Mrs. Loretta Maddox, age 87 of Flintville, will be conducted Monday, August 12, 2013 at 1:00 pm in Riverview Memorial Gardens with Rev. Billy Langford officiating. Mrs. Maddox passed away Saturday at her residence. Mrs. Maddox was a native of...

Funeral services for Mr. Kenneth Swinford, age 84 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday, August 12, 2013 at 2:00 pm at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Don Russell, Roy Butler and Randy Maxwell officiating. Burial will follow in Gatlin Cemetery. Mr. Swinford passed...

Funeral service for Mr. Donald B. Morrison, age 74 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday, August 9, 2013 at 1:00 pm at Higgins Funeral Home, with Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mr. Morrison passed away Wednesday morning in...

Funeral services for Mr. Larry Eakes, age 51 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday, August 5, 2013 at 1:00 pm at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Sonny Moore officiating. Burial will follow in Plainview Cemetery. Mr. Eakes passed away Friday evening in Huntsville...

Funeral services for Kellie McGuire, age 23 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 4 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Mike Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mrs. McGuire passed away Wednesday evening in...

Funeral services for Randal Lee Howell, age 70 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 10 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Steve Powell and Bro. Burt Baker officiating. Burial will follow in Prosperity Cemetery. Mr. Howell passed away Saturday in...

Funeral services for Mrs. Helen Simms, age 87, of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday, July 29, 2013 at 2 pm in the chapel of Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery beside her late husband James Virgil Simms. Mrs. Simms passed away Saturday...

It is with regret we announce the death of Mr. James Bryant, age 76 of the Coldwater Community, who passed away Thursday July 25th at Fayetteville Care and Rehabilitation. He was a native of Lincoln County and the son of the late Albert Eugene and Annie Bee Whitman...

Funeral services for Dorotha Evelyn Frady Webb, age 96 a longtime resident of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Van Johnson and Rev. John Simmons of Jacksonville, AL officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview...

Funeral services for Hollis Wayne Hopkins, age 76 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Neely Cemetery. Mr. Hopkins passed away Saturday in Huntsville Hospital. Mr. Hopkins...

Funeral services for William J. (Bill) Cannon, age 83 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11 AM at the First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Todd Jenkins officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mr. Cannon passed away Thursday morning in the...

Funeral services for Mrs. Robbie Jane Smith, age 75 of Dellrose, will be conducted Thursday at 3:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Shiloh Cemetery. Mrs. Smith passed away Tuesday in Lincoln Care Center. She was a native of Dellrose and the daughter...

Funeral services for Wilma Cunningham, age 88 of Tullahoma formerly of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 1:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her husband George Daniel Cunningham Jr. who passed away in...

Memorial services for Sarah Jean Simmons, age 78 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11 A M at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Ted Smith officiating. Mrs. Simmons passed away Tuesday in Big Springs Nursing Center in Huntsville, AL. She was a native of...

Funeral services for Mr. Robert McCrory, Sr., age 86 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 1 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Bob Bush officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mr. McCrory passed away Friday morning in Murfreesboro at...

Graveside services for Mrs Sarah Frances Hancock Jennings age 80 of Asheville, NC, formerly of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens, with Rev. Adam Guice and Rev. Justin Smith officiating. Burial will be beside her...

Funeral services for Mrs. Emily Owen Sowell, age 95 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday July 6th at 1:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tim Smith and Rev. Ronnie Pittenger officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her husband...

Richard Ray “Tooter” Steelman passed away peacefully on Saturday, June 29th, two days before his 64th birthday. Beloved husband and best friend to Sandra Steelman and father to Richard Ray Steelman, Jr. and wife Amanda, and Christy Lynn Chamblee and husband Ryan, all...

Graveside service for Dudley Gray, age 95 of Ardmore, TN, will be conducted Wednesday at 1:00 pm at Pleasant Hill Cemetery with Rev. Milton Martin officiating. Higgins Funeral Home is in charge of services. Mr. Gray passed away Monday morning in Donalson Care Center....

Funeral services for Luther Shockley, age 92 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 10 am at Higgins Funeral Home with Maurine Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Maxwell Cemetery. Mr. Shockley passed away Monday morning at his residence. A native of...

Funeral services for CSM James B. “Jim” Craft (Retired), age 77 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday morning at 11:00 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Pastor A. J. Alderman officiating. Mr. Craft passed away Thursday in the Life Care Center in Tullahoma, TN....

Funeral services for Nellie F. Prante, age 75 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 2:00 P.M. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Cleo Moon officiating. Burial will follow in Macedonia Cemetery. Mrs. Prante passed away Wednesday in Lincoln Medical Center. She...

Frank Benton Kelso II Admiral, US Navy (Retired) Frank B. Kelso II, age 79, Chief of Naval Operations from July 1990 to May 1994 died on Sunday June 23rd. Admiral Kelso's career spanned the majority of the Cold War period. His tour as CNO covered the end of the Cold...

Memorial service for Mrs. Betty Mastalski, age 88 of Fayetteville, TN, who passed away Saturday, June 22, 2013, will be conducted Friday, June 28, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at the St. Anthony Catholic Church with Rev. George Panthananickel, C.M.I. Officiating. Mrs. Mastalski...

Memorial services for James Thomas (Jim) Shaddy, Jr., age 69 of Petersburg, will be conducted Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Ryan Johnson officiating. Visitation with his family will be from 5 p.m. until time of service at Higgins...

Glyndon Wade Johnston, 91, a native of the Howell Community died Saturday evening (June 15, 2013) at Donalson Care Center after an extended illness. She was the daughter of the Eugene Higgins and Josephine Taylor Wade. Mrs. Johnston was a member of the Howell...

Graveside service for John J. Ayers, age 95 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 12 p.m. at Lebanon Cemetery with Rev. Tony Billions officiating. Burial will be beside his wife Margaret Pauline Gault Ayers. Mr. Ayers passed away Tuesday at Donalson Care...

Graveside service for Ellen Casey Beyer, age 82 of Hazel Green, AL will be conducted Thursday at 3 pm. at Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens with Rev. Jeremy Hudgins officiating. Mrs. Beyer passed away Monday in Huntsville Hospital. A native of Cotter, AR she was...

Funeral services for Mr. Erskine Bailey, age 86 of Plevna, AL, will be conducted Monday June 10, 2013 at 3:00 pm at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Milton Martin officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Grove Cemetery in New Market, AL. Mr. Bailey passed away...

Funeral services for Betty Ferrell, age 75 of Mulberry, will be conducted Monday, June 10, 2013 at 1:00 pm at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Roger Bates officiating. Private burial will follow in the Mulberry Cemetery. Mrs. Ferrell passed away Friday evening at her...

Memorial services for William Lee Jacobs, age 83 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Dwight Smith officiating. Burial will be in New Grove Cemetery. Mr. Jacobs passed away Friday morning in Donalson Care Center. He...

Funeral services for William Robert Jordan, age 96 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11:00 am at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black and Bro. Tom Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mr. Jordan passed away...

It is with regret we announce the death of Phillip W. Daniel, age 56 of Fayetteville, who passed away Monday at his residence. Private family services will be held at a later date. Higgins Funeral Home is assisting the family of Phillip W. Daniel.

Funeral services for Mr. Joe Allen Williams age 72, of Elora, will be conducted Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 1:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Miller Cemetery. Mr. Williams passed away Monday at Donalson Care Center. A native of Lincoln County, he...

Funeral services for Mr. John Allen Pierce, age 87 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 2 pm at Washington Street Church of Christ with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Wright’s Cemetery beside his wife Mrs. Mary Owena Ellis Pierce who passed...