Obituaries

It is with regret that we announce the death of Mrs. Ruby D. Wilson age 60 of Fayetteville, Mrs. Wilson passed away Friday in Lincoln Medical Center. A native of Lincoln County, Mrs Wilson was the daughter of Ruby Hamlin Rodgers, who survives and the late James...

Funeral service for Mr. Charles Claude Howard age 76 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday, December 31, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Vann Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Garden. Mr. Howard passed...

Funeral service for Mrs. Carrie Taylor age 76 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 1 p.m. at St Paul AME Church. Burial will follow in Pleasant View Cemetery. Mrs. Taylor passed away Friday afternoon in St. Thomas Hospital. Carrie Mae Taylor was born on...

Funeral services for Carl Milton Tipps, age 87 of Lynchburg, formerly of Fayetteville will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Leo Bechard officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hill Memorial Gardens. Mr. Tipps passed away...

Funeral services for Leonard E. Shepardson, age 60 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Dan Melchior officiating. Mr. Shepardson passed away Tuesday at Huntsville Hospital. A native of Topeka, KS, Mr. Shepardson was the...

Funeral services for James Earl Price, age 80 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Benny Berry officiating. Burial will follow in Blanche Cemetery beside his wife Jerlean Mullins Price. Mr. Price passed away Wednesday...

Graveside funeral service for Mrs. Marian Goodrich Hopkins age 52 of Flintville, will be conducted Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Pleasant Grove Cemetery with Rudy Elam officiating. Mrs Hopkins passed away Friday evening in Huntsville Hospital. A native of Lincoln County....

Graveside service for Mrs. Gene Landess Muse, age 92 of Carthage, TN, formerly of Fayetteville will be conducted Friday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. at Rose Hill Cemetery with Rev. Ann Hatcher officiating. Burial will be beside her husband Robert Paul Muse who passed away...

Funeral services for Jean Quick Strope, age 65 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday December 19th at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Travis Creasy officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Strope passed away Monday...

A funeral mass for Helene Kawiecki, age 96 of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at the St. Anthony's Catholic Church with Father Jose officiating. Burial will follow in Wright's Cemetery. Mrs. Kawiecki passed away Thursday in Whitesburg Gardens in...

Funeral services for Howard Haston Capshaw, age 83 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Richard McWilliams officiating. Burial will follow in Johnson Cemetery in Williamson County. Mr. Capshaw passed away Wednesday...

Funeral services for Aaron N. McKin, age 83 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. James Holt officiating. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery. Mr. McKin passed away Tuesday in Alive Hospice at St. Thomas Hospital. A...

Funeral services for Floyd Harold Brown, age 84 of Petersburg, will be conducted Friday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Troy Green officiating. Burial will follow in Medium Cemetery. Mr. Brown passed away Monday morning at Lincoln Medical Center. A native...

Graveside service for Katie Sue Ables Williams, age 91 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Prospect Cemetery beside her husband Paul Williams Jr with Dr. Ronnie Gay officiating. Mrs. Williams passed away Sunday at Lincoln Medical Center. A native...

It is with regret we announce the death of Bessie Sanders, age 91 of Fayetteville, who passed away Friday afternoon in Donalson Skill Care Center. Mrs. Sanders was a native of Forest City, AR and the daughter of the late Forest and Nina Malone Moore. She was a former...

Funeral services for Crystal Whitworth, age 25 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Ennis Hyman officiating. Burial will follow in Wrights Cemetery. Mrs. Whitworth passed away Wednesday in Vanderbilt Medical Center on...

A celebration of life for Angelia Darlene Grider Swing, age 61 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 10 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Billy Langford and Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Kirkland Cemetery. Mrs. Swing passed away...

Mr. William D. (Billy) Winsett, age 75 of Fayetteville, passed away Wednesday at his residence. He was a native of Lincoln County and the son of the late Ferris Jackson and Della Marie Bobo Winsett. Mr. Winsett was an active member of the Wells Hill Church of Christ....

Graveside service for Delores Bratton, age 63 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 1:00 p.m. at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Kingston Springs, TN with Higgins Funeral Home in charge. Miss Bratton passed away Wednesday morning in Huntsville Hospital. She was a...

Funeral services for Richard Lawrence Short, age 70 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Dr. Ronnie Gay officiating. Burial will follow in Prospect Cemetery. Mr. Short passed away on Monday. A native of Lincoln County,...

Funeral services for Leland Walker Simmons, age 90 of Belvidere, formerly of Lincoln County will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Billy Langford officiating. Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery beside his wife Olive Mae Allen Simmons....

Funeral Service for Mr. Bobby Joe Holt age 79 of Belvidere, will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Neal Cemetery beside his wife Mrs Bobbie Helen Ables Holt who passed away in 1993. Mr. Holt passed away Friday evening at...

Graveside services for Gentry Joe Allen Williams, Jr., age 89 of Taft, will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at Prosperity Cemetery with Higgins Funeral Home in charge. Burial will be beside his first wife Nadine Smith Williams. Mr. Williams passed away Wednesday at...

Lyndon Trigg Stone, age 91 of Fayetteville passed away Tuesday November 27, 2012 at his residence. Mr. Stone was a native of Lincoln County and the son of the late John Landess and Margaret Trigg Stone. He was a World War II Veteran, a deacon of Parks City Baptist...

Funeral services for Mr. Curtis Hilton Cashion, age 80 of Fayetteville, TN, will be conducted Monday, November 26, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. in the chapel of the Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tony Billions and Rev. Milton Martin officiating. Burial will follow in Buntley...

Funeral services for Mr. J.W. Tucker, age 90, of Pulaski, TN, formerly of Lincoln County, who passed away Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at the NHC Pulaski, will be conducted Friday, November 23, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Richard Waggoner...

Funeral services for William Fred Jobe, age 86 of Petersburg, will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. at the Fayetteville Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church with Dr.Calvin Todd officiating. Burial will follow in Prosperity Cemetery beside his wife Sara Williams Jobe....

Funeral services for Joyce Williams Buntley, age 89 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Maranatha Baptist Church with Pastor Randy Nichols officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her husband Coleman Buntley. Mrs....

Graveside service for Wanda Faye Hicklen Thompson, age 65 of Madison, TN, formerly of Fayetteville will be conducted Wednesday November 21, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at Gatlin Cemetery with Higgins Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Thompson passed away Saturday at her residence. A...

James Cole Sumners, 90, of Blanche, Tennessee, died Thursday (November 15, 2012) at Donalson Care Center in Fayetteville. Born September 6, 1922, he was a native of Lincoln County Tennessee, the son of the late Leon Eli and Clara Mae Cole Sumners. Mr. Sumners was a...

Graveside service for Mr. Luther R. Shelton, age 89 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Lincoln Cemetery with Rev. Kirk Smith officiating. Mr. Shelton passed away Monday afternoon at his residence. A native of Lincoln County, Mr. Shelton was the...

Jean Volney Agee Graham (June 21, 1924-November 11, 2012), of Taft, Tennessee died at Bailey Manor in Fayetteville. Originally from Lebanon, she was the daughter of the late Guy Marshall and Jessie Lee Frakes Agee. She received her education from Middle Tennessee...

Funeral service for Mr. Robert Gene Connelly, Sr. age 85 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 11 a.m. Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Mike George officiating. Burial will follow in Beechwood Cemetery in Cornersville, TN at 2 p.m. Mr. Connelly passed away...

It is with regret we announce the death of Mr. Bobby C. Smith, age 79 of Fayetteville,who died Wednesday night at Donalson Care Center. He was a native of Lincoln County and the son of the late Clyde Brooks and Bessie Shaw Smith. He was a retired employee of Teledyne...

Funeral services for Fredna Mae Russell Ellis, age 77 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Chris Jones and Bro. James West officiating. Burial will follow in Unity Cemetery. Mrs. Ellis passed away Thursday...

Funeral services for Annie Lou Flynn, age 94 of Hermitage, TN, formerly of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Terrell Bain officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Grove Cemetery beside her husband Henry...

Funeral services for Mary Katherine Ventress Spurlock and Vernon Rogers Spurlock, of Fayetteville will be conducted Friday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home Rev. Kirk Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Spurlock passed away on...

Funeral services for Mary Katherine Ventress Spurlock and Vernon Rogers Spurlock, of Fayetteville will be conducted Friday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home Rev. Kirk Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Spurlock passed away on...

Funeral service for SSG USA RET Robert Lemar Ford age 80 of Taft, will be conducted Saturday at 1 p. m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. William Moede officiating. Burial will follow in Blanche Cemetery. Mr. Ford passed away Wednesday morning at Lincoln Medical...

Funeral services for Mary Sue Hardiman, age 87 of Ardmore, will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Roger Cothren officiating. Burial will follow in New Grove Cemetery beside her husband Roy W. Hardiman. Mrs. Hardiman passed away Monday...