Obituaries

Funeral services for Hugh Edward “Peanut” Towry, age 82 , of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Dr. Calvin Todd and Rev. Ed Templeton officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mr. Towry passed away...

Ada Mae Sorrells Fullerton (82) was called to her heavenly home Saturday, April 21, 2012, following a short illness. A lifelong resident of Petersburg, she was born on January 10, 1930 to the late Eugene and Beulah Darnell Sorrells; and was preceded in death, in...

Graveside services for Joe Lynn Whitaker, age 87 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday afternoon at 4:00 PM at Riverview Memorial Gardens with Bro. Don Wallace officiating. Mr. Whitaker passed away Saturday morning at his residence. A native of Lincoln County, Mr....

Funeral services for Howard Wayne Bentley, Sr., age 73 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 1:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Steve Cummings and Rev. Keith Lorick officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Mr. Bentley passed away Friday...

Funeral services for Jennifer Lynn Davidson, age 36 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her father Don Davidson who died in 1989. Miss...

Funeral services for Mr. James D. Mullins, age 86 of Mulberry, will be conducted Wednesday at 1 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Ricky Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Booneville Cemetery. Mr. Mullins passed away Saturday at Lincoln Medical Center. A...

Graveside funeral service for Mrs. Elinor Davis, age 76 of Prospect, TN, will be conducted at 3 PM Tuesday at Prospect Cemetery in Prospect with Rev. Thomas Smith officiating. Mrs Davis passed away Saturday at Donalson Care Center and will be burried beside her...

Funeral service for Mrs. Vera Gray Holman, age 87 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 11 AM Higgins Funeral Home with Rev Paul Johnson officiating. Burial will follow beside her husband Eula Paul Holman in Lincoln Cemetery. Mrs. Holman passed away Friday...

Funeral services for Mrs. Alda Carlene Monks Hurt, age 93 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Hurt passed away Thursday night in...

Sunshine Lou Ann Clutts, age 2 of Fayetteville passed away Monday at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital from injuries received in a house fire. She was the daughter of Matthew Lee and Jessica Brannon Clutts of Fayetteville. In addition to her parents she is survived by...

Funeral services for Joe Ollie Watson, age 74 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 11 AM at Prospect Baptist Church with Dr. Ronnie Gay officiating. Burial will follow in Prospect Cemetery. Mr. Watson passed away Monday in St. Thomas Hospital. A native of...

Funeral services for Alise Elizabeth Austin, age 90 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Dr. Calvin Todd officiating. Burial will follow in Kirkland Cemetery. Mrs. Austin passed away Sunday morning in Donalson Care Center....

Graveside services for Glenn Holland Mullins, age 78 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 2 PM at Lone Oak Cemetery in Lewisburg with Rev. Bobby Bates officiating. Mr. Mullins passed away Saturday evening at his residence. Mr. Mullins was a native of Lincoln...

Funeral services for Reba Pickett McCool, age 81 of Chattanooga formerly of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 1:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Paul Clayton officiating. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery. Ms. McCool passed away Monday April 2,...

Funeral services for Fayetta Hunt-Barhorst, age 72 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 2:30 pm at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Barhorst passed away Sunday at St....

Jean Murdock Dyer, 84, of Fayetteville, died Sunday April 1, 2012 in Lincoln Care Center. Mrs. Dyer was a native of Marshall County and the daughter of the late Andrew J. and Mary Jones Murdock. For many years she traveled playing in numerous duplicate bridge...

Funeral service for Rev. Joe Ward Mayberry, age 82 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 11 AM at Fayetteville First Baptist Church with Rev Glenn Hester and The Honorable Larry Potter and Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Burial will follow beside his wife...

Funeral services for Robert Edward Fitch, age 62 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Don Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Prospect Cemetery beside his wife Marsha “Susie” Fitch who passed away in 2010. Mr....

Funeral services for Fredna June Smith, age 65 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Jeff Young and Eddie Graves officiating. Burial will follow in Flintville Cemetery. Miss Smith passed away Tuesday night in Lincoln...

Funeral services for Joyce Cowley Caldwell, age 81 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Ben Johnson and Bro. Kirk Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery beside her husband John P. Caldwell who...

Christine Pruitt Smith, age 88, a lifelong resident of Fayetteville, TN passed away Tuesday at Donalson Care Center. Services will be conducted Friday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Bill Dorriety officiating. Burial will follow in Wright's Cemetery. Mrs....

Funeral service for Mr Edwin Lewis (Punkin) Cannon, age 70 of Flintville, will be conducted Wednesday at 1PM at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery. Mr Cannon passed away Sunday morning. He was a native of Lincoln County and the son of the late...

Funeral services for Mrs. Roy Lee Pearson, age 91 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 11 AM at Fayetteville First United Methodist Church with Rev. Tommy Ward officiating. Burial will follow in Memory Gardens on Hwy 100 in Centerville, TN at 3 PM. A native...

Funeral services for Mr. Enos Lloyd Yeager, age 75 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Marine Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Moore Cemetery. A native of Birmingham, AL, he was the son of the late...

Funeral services for Mrs. Gaynell C. Foster, age 68, of Madison, Alabama will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2:00 P. M. at Higgins Funeral Home with Brother Winford Stayton and Terry Carter officiating. Burial will follow in Prospect Cemetery. A native of Lincoln...

Funeral services for Mr. David Nelson Bowman, age 49 of Taft, will be conducted Saturday morning at 11:00 o'clock at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Lon Ostrzycki officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens . Mr Bowman passed away Wednesday afternoon....

Graveside services for Martha E. Siemes, age 84 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 10AM at Lincoln Cemetery with Father Jose officiating. Mrs. Siemes passed away Sunday in Donalson Care Center. She was a native of Setterich, Germany and the daughter of...

John Lawson Sherrell, Jr. age 92, died at Kirby Pines Nursing Home in Memphis, TN, on March 8, 2012. He is survived by his son, Daniel Lawson Sherrell and wife Linda of Memphis, TN and his daughter Donna Sherrell Martin and husband Barry of Cincinnati, OH, three...

Our beloved mother, Marie Barnes age 80 made her final journey Saturday afternoon at St. Thomas Hospital. A native from Lincoln County, she was the daughter of James Polk Koonce and Donnie Hurlston Koonce. After devoting her life to the care of others as an LPN she...

Brandon Lee Cobern age 18 of Fayetteville passed away Friday at his residence. He was a native of Lincoln County Tennessee and the son of Todd Cobern and wife Lisa and Dana Richardson and husband Mike both of Fayetteville. Brandon attended Lincoln County High School....

It is with regret we announce the death of Garry Gordon Reavis, age 65, of Fayetteville who passed away Tuesday morning at his residence. He was a native of Lincoln County and the son of the the late Leslie Gordon Reavis and Sybil Leatherwood Reavis Whitaker who...

Memorial services for Michael James Gordon Osborne, age 66 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday, March 10th at 1:00 PM at the Fayetteville Elks Lodge. Military interment will be later this spring at the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery. Mr Osborne passed...