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Loyd Ray Williams
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...

Rodney Dale Groce
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...

John D. Parks
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...

Ruby Mullins Moore
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...

Evelyn Massey Polly Faulkner
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...

Ruth McCaferty Harris
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...

Rachel Janice Groce Logan
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...

Margaret Waid Taylor
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...

Wilma Lois Smith Caughran
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...

Louise Thomason Hudson
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....

Hazel Brown Pack
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
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 (Robby) Thomas Robinson
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...

Annie Pearl Honea Payne
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...

George M. Sparks
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...

Roy Bernard Harris, Sr.
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...

Thelma Ray Parks
Funeral services for Mrs. Thelma Ray Parks, age 94 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 12 PM at Fayetteville First Baptist Church with Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Lynchburg Cemetery beside her husband Robert C. Parks who passed away...

Don Kelso Scott
Funeral services for Don Kelso Scott, age 72 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 11 am at Higgins Funeral Home with Chris Howard officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery beside his wife Marilyn Scott who passed away in 1996. Mr. Scott passed away...

Jesse Matthew Hardwick
Memorial service for Jesse Matthew Hardwick, age 36 of Flintville, will be conducted Sunday at 11 AM at Flintville 1st Baptist Church. Mr. Hardwick passed away Sunday at Lincoln Medical Center. He was a native of Placerville, CA and the son of the late Albert Jess...

Hattie Sue Waggoner Jones
Hattie Sue Waggoner Jones, 98, died on Monday, September 10 at Lincoln Care Center in Fayetteville, TN. A native of Lynchburg, TN, and graduate of Moore County High School, she lived there until moving to Fayetteville in 1931. She worked with Dr. Robert McCown, making...

Edna Morrow Gault
Funeral services for Edna Morrow Gault, age 93 of Kelso, will be conducted Tuesday at 1 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Carlos Beddingfield and Bro. Sonny Moore officiating. Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery beside her husband Leon Gault Sr.. Mrs. Gault passed...

Kerry Wayne Reese
Funeral services for Kerry Wayne Reese, age 55 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Greg Wiser and Bro. Joe Brown officiating. Burial will follow in Stewarts Cemetery. Mr. Reese passed away Thursday morning in...

Gordon Joel Marshall
Graveside funeral service for Mr. Gordon Joel Marshall, age 88 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 10 AM at Pleasant Grove Cemetery with Anthony Crowell officiating. Mr. Marshall passed away Saturday evening at Lincoln Medical Center. Higgins Funeral Home...

John Harmon Hurt, Sr.
Funeral services for Mr. John Harmon Hurt, Sr., age 92 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 11am at the Fayetteville First Baptist Church with Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside his wife Alda Monks Hurt who...

Ora Maxine Lovelace Hansard
It is with regret we announce the death of Mrs. Ora Maxine Lovelace Hansard, age 93 of Fayetteville. Mrs. Hansard passed away Tuesday evening at her daughters residence. She was a native of Missouri and the daughter of the late Elmer and Edith Miller Lovelace and the...

Jane Noles Groce
Jane Noles Groce, age 82 of Fayetteville, passed away August 24, 2012 at Donalson Care Center. She was born December 28, 1929 to Riley and Mary Hastings Noles and was a native of Lincoln County. Mrs. Groce was a homemaker and member of the Washington St. Church of...

Emily A. Satterfield
Funeral services for Emily A. Satterfield, age 69 of New Market, AL, will be conducted Friday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Todd Gaskill officiating. Burial will follow in Concord Cemetery Mrs. Satterfield passed away Wednesday morning in Huntsville...

James Cellon Cox
Funeral services for James Cellon Cox, age 77 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 11 am at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Lee Allen officiating. Burial will follow in Talley Cemetery. Mr. Cox passed away Tuesday night in Lincoln Care Center. He was a native...

Audrey Gayle Pearson Lester
Funeral services Audrey Gayle Pearson Lester, age 56 of Murfreesboro, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Ricky Holman officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Lester passed away Thursday in...

Gladys W. Bryson
Graveside services for Gladys W. Bryson, age 77 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 2 PM at Pleasant View Cemetery beside her husband Joe Russell Bryson. Pastor Dezzie Fletcher will be be officiating. Mrs. Bryson passed away Tuesday at Lincoln Medical Center....

Danny Mills Harmon
Graveside service for Danny Mills Harmon, age 58 of Fayetteville will be conducted Friday at 11 am at Kirkland Cemetery with Higgins Funeral Home in charge. Mr. Harmon passed away Tuesday night in St. Thomas Hospital. He was a native of Lincoln County and the son of...

Adell Thrasher
Funeral services for Mr. Adell Thrasher, age 86 of Flintville, will be conducted Thursday afternoon at 2 pm at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Milton Martin and Rev. Carlos Beddingfield officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Mr. Thrasher passed away...

Karen Lee Galliart
Funeral services for Karen Lee Galliart, age 68 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 11 am at the Faith Lutheran Church in Tullahoma with Pastor Marty Nutter officiating. Burial will be at 2 pm Friday afternoon at Stewarts Cemetery. Mrs. Galliart passed away...

Robbie Earl Smith
Funeral service for Mr. Robbie Earl Smith, age 85 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 2 pm at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro.Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mr Smith passed away at his residence August 11, 2012....

Jerry Vardiman McKinney
Funeral services for Mr. Jerry Vardiman McKinney, age 88 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 1 pm at Fayetteville First Baptist Church with Rev. Van Johnson and Rev. Douglas Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mr McKinney passed away...

Katherine Louise Metcalf
Graveside service for Katherine Louise Metcalf, age 45 of Toney, AL, formerly of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 11 am at Prosperity Cemetery with Higgins Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Metcalf passed away Wednesday evening in Huntsville Hospital. She was a...

Hazel Beatrice LaRue
Funeral services for Hazel Beatrice LaRue, age 87 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 10 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Roy LaRue officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens beside her husband Edward LaRue who passed away in...

Betty Moore Pigg
Funeral services for Betty Moore Pigg, age 67 of Elora, will be conducted Tuesday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Willie Banks and Bro. Tim Britton officiating. Burial will follow in Stateline Cemetery. Mrs. Pigg passed away Friday morning at her residence....

Wanda Fay Newgent
Funeral services for Wanda Fay Newgent, age 62 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 1 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Sonny Moore officiating. Burial will follow in Moore Cemetery. Mrs. Newgent passed away Thursday afternoon at her residence. A native of...

John H Gaines
Memorial service for Mr. John Hearn Gaines age 89 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 1 pm at Fayetteville First Baptist Church with Rev. Van Johnson officiating.Burial will be beside his wife Mrs Marie H. Woodside Gaines at Lebanon Cemetery.Mr Gaines passed...