Obituaries

It is with regret we announce the death of Ryan Dale Oetken, age 34 of Cartersville, GA. Mr. Oetken passed away Sunday. He was a native of Burlington, IA and the son of Ronald and Janet Schwerin Oetken, and was a Quality Control Troubleshooter for Shaw Industries....

It is with regret we announced the death of Julaine Marie Oetken Faulkner, age 38 of Fayetteville. Mrs. Faulkner passed away Sunday at her residence. She was a native of Burlington, IA and the daughter of Ronald and Janet Schwerin Oetken and was employed by FTI...

Clyde Edward Thompson, 83, of Madison, TN passed away April 7, 2013. He was born in Old Hickory, TN on August 30, 1929 to the late Charles M. and Louise Walker Thompson. He married the late Wanda Hicklen Thompson from Fayetteville, TN, in 1972 and they lived in...

Funeral services for Mable Alta Stewart, age 89 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 1:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Tommy Graham officiating. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery beside her husband Harold Wayne Stewart. Mrs. Stewart passed away...

Funeral services for Katie Ruth West Arney, age 94 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tim Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Boonshill Cemetery beside her husband Tom Crawford Arney who passed away in 1993....

Graveside service for Eddy Gatlin, age 57 of Dellrose, will be conducted Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Shiloh Cemetery with Rev. Ann Hatcher officiating and Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Mr. Gatlin passed away Monday morning at Lincoln Medical Center. A...

Funeral service for Dr. James “Jim” Fee age 82 of Old Hickory, will be conducted Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Fayetteville ARP Church with Dr. Calvin Todd and Mr. Jim Moran officiating. Dr. Fee will lie in state Wednesday from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at Fayetteville ARP...

Funeral service for Mr. Ronald W. “Ronnie” Osteen age 58 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at Washington Street Church of Christ with Bro. Jim Black and Bro. Mike George officiating. Burial will follow in Lebanon Cemetery. Mr. Osteen passed away...

Graveside service for Rachel Murrell Steelman, age 77 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11 AM at Riverview Memorial Gardens with Rev. Don Russell officiating. Higgins Funeral Home will be in charge of services. Miss Steelman passed away Wednesday evening...

Funeral service for Mr. William Clayton McBay age 80 of Cornersville, will be conducted Saturday at 1 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Ray West officiating. Burial will be Saturday at 2:15 p.m. at Lone Oak Cemetery in Lewisburg, TN. Mr. McBay passed away...

Graveside service for Mr. Marlon Wayne "Bill" Mansfield age 83 of Nashville, will be conducted Friday at 11 a.m. at Lincoln Cemetery with Rev. Don Russell officiating. Mr. Mansfield passed away Tuesday morning at Alive Hospice in Nashville. A native of Lincoln County,...

Funeral service for Ms. Billie J. Janeway age 76, of Elora will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Junior Brazier and Bro. Billy Joe George officiating. Burial will follow in Flintville Cemetery. Ms. Janeway passed away Saturday in Life...

Funeral services for Jessie McGee Ashby, age 95 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Richard Waggoner officiating. Burial will follow in Booneville Cemetery beside her husband Leonard Ashby. Mrs. Ashby passed away...

Funeral services for Charlotte Anderson Beech, age 89 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Don Wallace officiating. Burial will follow in Prosperity Cemetery. Mrs. Beech passed away Friday morning in Donalson...

Carman H. Gibson, age 80,of Fayetteville passed away at his home Friday March 1, 2013. He was the son of Cary Hilmon and Martha Coleman Gibson of Ramer, TN. Survivors include his wife Frances Monks Gibson of Fayetteville, daughters Cindy Langford (Billy) of...

Funeral services for Merle Wade Haynes, age 87 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Haynes passed away Monday night in Crestwood Medical Center. She was a native of...

Graveside service for Mr. Oscar Melvin Henderson age 82 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 3 p.m. at Pleasant Grove Cemetery with Rev. Eddie Graves officiating. Mr. Henderson passed away Saturday at his residence. A native of Albertville, AL. He was the son...

Susie A. Locke, age 89 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 1 p.m at Higgins Funeral with Bro. Meade and Bro. Bundy officiating. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery beside her husband Charles E. Locke who passed away June 7, 2007. Mrs. Locke passed away...

Graveside service for Marylan Goodrich “Pete” Patrick, age 77 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 10 a.m. at Lincoln Cemetery with Br. Richard Rogers officiating. Mr. Patrick passed away Tuesday in Huntsville Hospital. He was a native of Lincoln County and...

It is with regret we announce the death of Gracie Louise McAlister Drennon, age 89 of Ardmore, TN, who passed away Tuesday morning at Bailey Manor in Fayetteville. Mrs.Drennon was a native of Lincoln County and the daughter of the late John William and Agnes Moore...

Funeral services for Julia Pauley Robinson, age 84 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Bobby Bates and Rev. Wayne Hollingsworth officiating. Burial will follow in the Prospect Cemetery beside her husband Elzie...

It is with regret that we announce the death of Mrs. Violet Levy Woodward, age 86, of Fayetteville, who passed away Saturday morning at her residence. Mrs. Woodward was a native of Natchez, MS, the daughter of the late Maurice O. and Ruth Ayers Levy. She was a...

Funeral Mass for Mr. Edward Douglas Shanklin age 90 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 11 a.m. at St. Anthony Catholic Church. Burial will be at Lakelawn Cemetery in Metarie Louisiana at a later date. Mr. Shanklin passed away Friday at his residence. A...

Graveside service for Mr. Erskin Elroy Norwood age 85 of Dellrose, will be conducted Monday at 1 p.m. at Wrights Cemetery. With Bro Dwain Brown officiating. Mr. Norwood passed away Friday evening at his residence. A native of Giles County, Mr. Norwood was the son of...

Graveside service for Gloria Guin, age 80 of Taft, will be conducted Saturday at 1:00 PM at Blanche Cemetery with Rev. Sonny Moore officiating. Ms. Guin passed away Friday at her residence. A native of Lockhart, AL, she was the daughter of the late Alvin and Evelyn...

Funeral services for Janeil Wallace, age 79 of Dellrose, will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Mike Hovis officiating. Burial will follow in Blanche Cemetery beside her husband Robert Wade Wallace who passed away in 2011. Mrs. Wallace...

Funeral services for Earl Newgent, age 93 of Flintville, will be conducted Friday morning at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Tim Britton and Bro. Wayne Hollingsworth officiating. Burial will follow in Moore Cemetery beside his wife Mary Louise Newgent. Mr....

Funeral services for Mr. Robert Benton “Bobby” O'Neal, age 81 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Maurine Smith and Leo Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mr. O'Neal passed away Saturday morning at...

Graveside services for Brenda Cheryl Goode, age 65 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at Kirkland Cemetery with Bro. Don Russell officiating and Higgins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Ms. Goode passed away Saturday morning in the...

Funeral services for Nancy Inez Lewter, age 92 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jimmy Wright and Bro. Don Wallace officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her husband Edward H....

Funeral services for Mrs. Gladys Blankenship Mitchell, age 87 of Murray, Kentucky, formerly of Fayetteville will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Charles Jones officiating. Burial will follow in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery beside her...

Funeral services for Frances Mardell Thompson McBay, age 84 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Eldridge Snow and Rev. Don Gray officiating. Burial will follow in Campbell Cemetery beside her husband J.T. McBay who...

Funeral services for Ethel Irene Shelton, age 92 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. David England officiating. Burial will be follow in Lebanon Cemetery beside her husband Roy Leonard Shelton who passed away in...

Funeral services for John M. Edwards, age 90 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. David Baker officiating. Burial will follow in Bostick Cemetery beside his wife Sylvia Edwards who passed away in 1998. Mr. Edwards...

Funeral services for Lawrence “Axe” Storey, age 86 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 12 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tommy Ward officiating. Burial will follow in Shiloh Cemetery. Mr. Storey passed away Friday at his residence. A native...

Memorial service for Mr. Clair Joyner Telford, age 58 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday February 9th at 2:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Elk's Lodge 1792 officiating. Mr. Telford passed away Friday morning at Lincoln Medical Center. He was born in...

Funeral services for Jane Gunter, age 95 of Frankewing, will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Monty Franklin officiating. Burial will follow in Wrights Cemetery beside her husband Woodrow Gunter. Mrs. Gunter passed away Thursday evening...

Funeral services for Mr. Jerry Don Wilkes, age 87 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 3 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. David Arrington officiating. Burial will follow in the Booneville Cemetery. Mr. Wilkes passed away Tuesday in Donalson Care Center...

Cynthia Fay Stark Bagley age 101, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at her home in Dallas, Texas. Born in Monmouth Illinois, on August 8, 1911, she spent her early years in Dubuque, Iowa and Detroit, Michigan. She always...

Funeral services for John Mark Jones, age 57 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 1 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Cheri Jobe officiating. Burial will follow in Rice Cemetery. Mr. Jones passed away Sunday morning at Vanderbilt Hospital. A native of...