Obituaries

Graveside service for Robert Wayne “Bobby Bird” Scott, age 57 of Fayetteville, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Unity Cemetery with Rev. Todd Gaskill officiating. Mr. Scott passed away Sunday at his residence. A native of Lincoln County, he was son the late...

Funeral services for Lela Baker, age 92 of Toney, AL, formerly of Spring City, TN, will be conducted Monday at 11 a.m. at Colter Funeral Home in Dayton, TN. Burial will follow in the McClendon Cemetery in Spring City, TN. beside her husband Fred Baker Mrs. Baker...

Mr. Auburn Lee Jennings, age 19 of Fayetteville, passed away Thursday morning at Lincoln Medical Center. He was a native of Lincoln County and was the son of Jimmy Jennings of Taft and Lisa Mason Cobern and Todd of Fayetteville. He was a member of the Presbyterian...

Graveside services for Catherine Rae Pitcock, infant daughter of Johnny Ray and Melanie Arney Pitcock, will be conducted Saturday at 1:00 p.m. at Carter Hills Cemetery with Rev. Bill Moede and Rev. Tim Smith officiating. Survivors in addition to her parents include...

Funeral services for Mary Inez Hambrick Cagle, age 71 of Taft, will be conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Mark Schuelke officiating. Burial will follow in Kirkland Cemetery. Mrs. Cagle passed away Thursday morning at Lincoln Medical...

Graveside service for Patty Dockery Cowley, age 46 of Kelso, will be conducted Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at Kelso Cemetery with Pastor Mike Robertson officiating. Mrs. Cowley passed away Tuesday evening at Fayetteville Care and Rehabilitation Center. A native of...

Funeral services for Frances L. Daniel Slayton, age 76 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 11a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tom Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Shiloh Cemetery beside her husband Bob “Dock” Slayton who passed away in 2008....

Graveside service for Hilda Faye Turney Stubblefield, age 93 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at Rose Hill Cemetery with Rev. Ann Hatcher officiating. Burial will be beside her husband C.C. Stubblefield. Mrs. Stubblefield passed away...

Funeral services for Jessica Leigh Brown, age 21 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 11a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Bobby Vickers and Rev. Tim Shields officiating. Burial will follow in Booneville Cemetery. A native of Lincoln County, Miss Brown was...

Graveside service for Jack Hinton Ray, age 78 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. at Marble Plains Cemetery at Tims Ford Park with Bro. Chris Jones officiating. Mr. Ray passed away Tuesday in Fayetteville Care and Rehab. A native of...

Funeral services for Anita Kelley Bassham, age 78 of Fayetteville, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Richard Rogers officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery in Columbia beside her husband Donald Bassham who passed away in...

Funeral services for Mr. L. W. Jones, age 89 of Flintville, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday morning at Higgins Funeral Home with Dr. Phillip Jones and Rev. Jeremy Jones officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Mr. Jones passed away Sunday at...

Funeral service for Mr. (Kippy) Clifford Brown Yount age 71 of Mulberry, will be conducted Monday at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. David Arrington officiating. Burial will follow in Mulberry Cemetery. Mr. Yount passed away Friday evening at Lincoln Medical...

Graveside service for James E. Blair, age 53 of Fayetteville, will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens with Higgins Funeral Home in charge. Mr.Blair passed away Wednesday at his residence. He was a native of Birmingham, AL and...

Mr. Richard William Lush, age 73 of Manchester, formerly of Fayetteville, passed away Wednesday night in an Extended Care Facility in Manchester. He was a native of Camden, NJ and the son of the late Norman P. and Frances Lush. Mr. Lush was a former Lincoln County...

Funeral services for Raymond E. Russell age 81 of Fayetteville, will be conducted at 1:00 p.m. Saturday at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Mark Massey and Bro. Don Gatlin officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mr. Russell passed away...

Graveside service for Vicky Leen McKin Cramer, age 53 of Ardmore, will be conducted at 1:00 p.m. Friday at Lincoln Cemetery. Mrs Cramer passed away Monday morning at her residence. She was a native of Lincoln County and the daughter of Aaron McKin and the late Frances...

Philip Wilson Tucker, age 78 of Fayetteville, formerly of Nashville, TN passed from this life October 13, 2012. A funeral service will be held Tuesday, October 16 at 11 a.m. at Higgins Funeral Home. Mr. Wilson was born December 22, 1933 in Corders Cross Roads, TN to...

Funeral services for Mildred Shelton Gault, age 87 of Fayetteville, will be conducted at2 p.m Sunday at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tom Ward officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her husband Ira Goodrich Gault who passed away in 1976....

It is with regret we announce the death of Linda Squires, age 59 of Taft, who passed away Friday morning in Lincoln Care Center. Mrs. Squires was a native of Plainfield, NJ, and the daughter of the late Otto and Teresa Martinkovic Nodes. She was employed as a sales...

Graveside service for Jack Eric Hall, age 86 of Fayetteville, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Lebanon Cemetery with Dr. Calvin Todd officiating. Mr. Hall passed away Thursday night in Donalson Care Center. He was a native of San Pedro, CA and the son of the...

Graveside service for Fred Allen Higgins, age 63 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 2 pm at Carter Hills Cemetery with Higgins Funeral Home in charge. Mr. Higgins passed away at his residence on Tuesday. He was a native of Lincoln County, son of the late...

Edwin Bruce Springthorpe, age 71, of Fayetteville passed away Friday, October 5, 2012 in Huntsville Hospital. A native of Danville, Virginia, he was the son of the late Edwin and Grace Vivian Harper Springthorpe, a veteran of the United States Navy and a professional...

Funeral services for Peggy Maureen Lentz Warren, age 70 of Petersburg, will be conducted Saturday October 6th at 3 pm at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Joe Wayne McGee officiating. Burial will follow in Old Orchard Cemetery. Mrs. Warren passed away Thursday in Harton...

Graveside service for Loyd Ray Williams, age 72 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday afternoon at 4 pm at Pleasant Grove Cemetery with Bro. Johnny Clardy officiating. Burial will be beside his wife Shirley Sowell Williams. Mr. Williams passed away Thursday at his...

Funeral services for Rodney Dale Groce, age 61 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday morning at 10 am at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Rickey Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Booneville Cemetery. Mr. Groce passed away Wednesday afternoon. A native of...

Funeral service for John D. Parks age 87 of Dallas, TX formerly of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at Brown's Temple AME Church with Rev George Parks officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant View Cemetery. Mr. Parks passed away Tuesday October 2nd...

Funeral services for Ruby Mullins Moore, age 92 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Kirkland Cemetery beside her husband, Everette C. Moore, who passed away in...

Funeral service for Evelyn Massey Polly Faulkner, age 90 of Petersburg, will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Ron Arrick officiating. Burial will follow in Old Orchard Cemetery beside her first husband Clay Polly. Mrs. Faulkner...

Memorial service for Ruth McCaferty Harris, age 93 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11 AM at the First United Methodist Church with Rev. Tommy Ward officiating. Mrs. Harris passed away Tuesday morning. She was a native of Petersburg, PA and the daughter...

Funeral services for Rachel Janice Groce Logan, age 73 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Richard Logan officiating. Burial will follow in the Booneville Cemetery beside her husband James Cranford Logan. Mrs. Logan...

Funeral services for Margaret Waid Taylor, age 78 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Chris Jones officiating.  Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her husband Dan Taylor who passed away in...

    Graveside service for Mrs Wilma Lois Smith Caughran, age 85 of Huntsville, will be conducted Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Riverview Memorial Gardens with Bro. Ennis Hyman officiating. Burial will follow beside her late husband James Homer Caughran. Mrs. Caughran...

  Funeral services for Louise Thomason Hudson, age 92 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Travis Creasy officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her husband Herschel Hudson....

Funeral services for Hazel Brown Pack, age 96 of Guntersville, formerly of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Paul Clayton officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery beside her husband Marvin Pack who passed...

William Luther Hopkins – age 89 of Fayetteville, Tennessee passed away September 16, 2012, at the home of his daughter, Susan Long, in Knoxville after a sudden illness. He was born on May 17, 1923, the youngest son of William Thomas Hopkins and Onnie Mullins Hopkins...

Colonel William T. Robinson Colonel William (Robby) Thomas Robinson, Retired USAF, 76, of Fayetteville, Tennessee, passed away peacefully at home on the evening of September 16, 2012. He was born March 5, 1936, in Rome, New York, the son of William Stanley and Irene...

Funeral services for Annie Pearl Honea Payne, age 91 of the Howell Community, will be conducted Thursday at 2 PM at the Howell First Baptist Church with Rev. Brian Gass officiating. Burial will follow in Kirkland Cemetery beside her husband Ernest S. Payne. Mrs. Payne...

It is with regret we announce the death of Mr. George M. Sparks, age 84 of New Market, AL. Mr. Sparks passed away September 14, 2012 in Donalson Care Center. He was a native of Lewis County, KY and the son of the late Walter and Lillie Sparks. He was a veteran of WW...

Graveside service for Roy Bernard Harris, Sr., age 86 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11 AM at Malone Cemetery in Ardmore, TN with Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Burial will be beside his wife Golda Roper Harris who passed away in 2009. Mr. Harris was a...