Obituaries

Funeral services for Knox Wayne Smith, age 63 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday1 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mr. Smith passed away Monday in Huntsville Hospital. A...

Funeral service for Ms. Crystal Tanille Groce, age 32 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 10 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Lee Allen officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Ms. Groce passed away Sunday at her residence. A...

Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Elsie Hahn Bowden, age 84 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 1 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Paul Clayton officiating. Burial will follow in Stewart's Cemetery beside her husband John C. Bowden. Mrs. Bowden passed...

  Funeral services for Mary E. Conwell Bradford, age 93 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 1 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Thomas Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Old Orchard Cemetery beside her husband Silas Leonard Bradford. Mrs....

Funeral services for Ms. Clare Ralston, age 62 of Frankewing, will be conducted Monday at 2:30 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Todd Jenkins officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Ms. Ralston passed away Friday at her residence. A native of Lincoln...

  Ena Marie Bradford age 91, of Fayetteville passed away Saturday morning at Donalson Care Center. A native of Lincoln County, she was the daughter of the late John R. and Burlie Steelman Shelton, Mrs. Bradford worked for the Lincoln County School Systems, and...

Funeral services for Bobby Guy Fogg, age 75 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 11 AM at the Fayetteville First Baptist Church with Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Round Hill Cemetery in Belfast, TN. Mr. Fogg passed away Tuesday morning...

  Funeral services for Jessie Jewel Moorehead, age 91 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tommy Ward officiating. Burial will follow in Mulberry Cemetery beside her husband John Moorehead who passed away in 1985....

  Funeral services for Robert Leonard Warren, age 85 of Petersburg, will be conducted Wednesday at 2 PM at Hope Assembly of God with Rev. Phillip Warren officiating. Burial will follow in Foster Cemetery. Mr. Warren passed away Monday morning at his residence. He...

Funeral services for Billie Ellis Gifford, age 81 of Elora, will be conducted Sunday morning at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Milton Martin officiating. Burial will follow in Sisk Cemetery in Estill Fork, AL at 1:30 PM beside his wife Margaret Evelyn Bailey...

Dr. H. John Caulfield passed away on January 31, 2012 at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro following a brief and intense battle with cancer. He was a native of Halletsville, TX and the son of the late Henry John and Mary Pendergrass Caulfield II. He was...

Funeral services for Joel Ray Slayton, age 82 of Petersburg, will be conducted Thursday morning at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Chester Slayton and Bro. Sonny Moore officiating. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery. Mr. Slayton passed away Monday in...

Graveside services for Mary Etta Lackey, age 78 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 11 AM at Barnes cemetery with Bro. Thomas Smith officiating. Higgins Funeral Home is in charge of services. Mrs. Lackey passed away Sunday at Lincoln Medical Center. She was...

  Connie Carter Ellett of Fayetteville died Friday (Jan. 27, 2012) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. She was 61. A native of Lincoln County, she was the daughter of the late James Boyd and Rebecca Ann Locker Carter. She was a member of the...

  Funeral services for James Derril Clements, age 77 of Petersburg, TN will be conducted Saturday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro.  Tom Russell officiating.   Burial will follow in Pigg Cemetery. Mr. Clements passed away Tuesday afternoon...

Funeral service for Mrs. Mozelle Stevenson, age 81 of Fayetteville, will be conducted at 11 AM Tuesday at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Wright’s Cemetery beside her husband Frank Everette Stevenson who passed away in 1994. Mrs. Stevenson passed away...

Funeral services for Jesse Knox McAlister, age 90 of Taft, will be conducted Sunday at 3 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Wayne Harvell officiating. Burial will follow in Blanche Cemetery beside his wife Inez McAlister who passed away in 2005. Mr. McAlister passed...

Funeral services for Mary Owena Ellis Pierce, age 81 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 2 PM at Washington Street Church of Christ with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Wright's Cemetery. Mrs. Pierce passed away Tuesday morning in Lincoln...

Memorial services for Wilma Jenkins King, age 88 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 1:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Private burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery beside her husband, J. C. King who passed away in 2006....

Funeral services for Mr. Johnny Dwight Church, age 65 of Flintville who passed away Saturday, January 14, will be conducted Tuesday at 1 PM in the chapel of Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Kenneth Basham officiating. Music service will be provided by a lifelong friend...

Funeral services for Mrs. Odell W. Posey, age 90 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday at 2 PM at the Fayetteville First Baptist Church with Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Mrs. Posey passed away Sunday in Lincoln Medical Center. She was a native of Lincoln County...

Funeral services for Mary Ann Sons Mitchell, age 66 of Petersburg, will be conducted Thursday at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Harold Davis officiating. Burial will follow in Booneville Cemetery. Mrs. Mitchell passed away Monday afternoon in Marshall Medical...

Funeral service for Mrs. Violet Christine Slayton Taylor age 78, of Fayetteville will be conducted Tuesday at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home, with Rev Don Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Lebanon Cemetery beside her husband Mr. V. J. Taylor who passed away in...

HEREFORD, Jr., James Strong (Jim), age 65, of Fayetteville, died Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012, at Lincoln Medical Center. A native of Lincoln County, he was the son of the late James S. Hereford Sr. and Nell Cowley Hereford. A longtime Fayetteville attorney, Mr. Hereford had...

A graveside service for Mr. James Howard Thornton, age 90 of Huntsville, AL, will be conducted Monday at 10:30 AM at Eastview Cemetery in Union City, TN. Mr. Thornton passed away Friday evening at Floyd E. "Tut" Fann State Veterans Home. Higgins Funeral Home is in...

Funeral services for Betty Jean Vann Esslinger, age 77 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Monday at 1:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Gatlin Cemetery beside her husband Roy Thomas Esslinger Sr. Mrs. Esslinger passed away Friday morning at her...

Funeral services for Jennings Douglas Stovall, Sr. age 61 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Sunday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Richard Hughes, Bro. Tim Smith, Doug Watts, and Rev. Jeff Stovall officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills...

Funeral services for James B. "Bud" Stevenson, age 88, of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday at 12:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Stan Stevenson officiating, Burial will follow in Shiloh Cemetery. Mr. Stevenson passed away Wednesday morning at his...

Funeral services for Virginia M. Stevenson, age 87 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Saturday at 10 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Jeffrey Young officiating. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery beside her husband Harold Stevenson. Mrs. Stevenson passed away...

Walter Mitchell Crawford III, 75 of Fayetteville, Tennessee, died Monday December 19, 2011, at Donaldson Retirement Center following an extended illness. Mitchell was born February 10, 1936 in Fayetteville, Tennessee. His family moved to Chattanooga in 1948 where he...

Funeral services for Carrie Lee Thompson Dickey, age 94 of the Smithland Community, will be conducted Wednesday at 10 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Jerry Mansfield officiating. Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery beside her husband Louis Clinton Dickey Sr. who...

It is with regret that we announce the death of Mrs. Lona Jeanette Lingle Viering Shearer age 76, of Fayetteville. Mrs Shearer passed away Saturday morning at her residence. A native of Harrisburg, PA, the daughter of the late Grant Thomas and Earnestine Shandelmeir...

Funeral services for Eula Paul Holman, age 91 of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery. Mr. Holman passed away Thursday afternoon at Lincoln Care Center. He was a native of Madison County, AL...

Mrs. Faye Lynn Shead Pope, age 61 of Fayetteville, passed away Tuesday morning in Huntsville Hospital. She was a native of Douglasville, GA, daughter of the late Dixon and Ruby Shead Sr. Mrs. Pope was employed by Goodman Manufacturing as Traffic Manager and was a...

Funeral services for Lillian Henderson Wilson, age 87 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Wednesday at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Dr. Ronnie Gay officiating. Burial will follow in Stewarts Cemetery. Mrs. Wilson passed away Monday morning at her residence. She...

Funeral services for Hardy Bailey Ferrell, age 76 of Mulberry, will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 1:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Terrell Bain and Rev. Roger Bates officiating. Private burial will follow in the Mulberry Cemetery. Mr. Ferrell passed away...

It is with regret we announce the death of Mrs. Hazel Boggs age 95 of Fayetteville. Mrs. Boggs passed away Friday morning at her residence. She was a native of Lincoln County and the daughter of the late Willie Monroe and Alda Alene Heathcoat Goolsby, a retired nurse...

Funeral services for James Madison Hickson, age 88 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Thursday morning at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Derrick Jones officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mr. Hickson passed away Wednesday morning in Donalson...