Obituaries

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...

Funeral services for Beverly Douglas Williams, age 62 of Kelso, will be conducted Thursday afternoon at 1:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Don Russell and Bro. Jack Hice officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Williams passed away...

Funeral services for Gracie B. (Pat) Ennis Shelton, age 85, Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday at 2:30 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. James Barnes and Bro. Randy Nichols officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Shelton passed away...

Funeral services for Mr. Ray Collins, age 78 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Friday at 1 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. David Sain officiating. Burial will follow in Barnes Cemetery Mr. Collins passed away Tuesday afternoon at his residence. A native of...

Funeral services for Jimmy Ray Foster, age 57, of Huntsville will be conducted Thursday at 1:00 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. James Barnes officiating. Burial will follow in Shady Grove Cemetery. Mr. Foster passed away at his residence on Monday. He was a...

Sue-Dale Oldham Bonner, age 75 of Florence, Ala, formerly of Fayetteville joined the Lord while surrounded by her family on Friday December 31, 2010. She was the daughter of the late Robert Hal and Janie Inez (Towry) Oldham. Survived by her husband, James Aubrey...

Funeral Services for Mr. John Carl Moore Jr., age 93 of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 1 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tommy Graham officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mr. Moore passed away Saturday at Donalson Nursing Home. Mr....

Funeral service for Mrs. Juanita (Gulley) Jones, age 76 of Kelso, will be conducted Friday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Don Wallace and Bro. Dennis Kimmery officiating. Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery. Mrs. Jones passed away Tuesday evening at...

Funeral service for Mrs. Margaret Johnston Sullenberger Johnson age 99, of Fayetteville will be conducted Thursday at 11 AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Calvin Todd officiating. Graveside service will be Friday at 11 AM at Greenwood Cemetery in Knoxville, TN Mrs....

Funeral services for Mrs. Lottie Wells Parker, age 86, of Fayetteville will be conducted Wednesday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in New Hope Cemetery. Mrs. Parker passed away Monday at Lincoln Medical Center. She...

Funeral service for Mr. William (Bill) Tripp age 77, of Fayetteville will be conducted Monday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Gary Wright and Bro. Bill Ivey officiating. Burial will follow in Lebanon Cemetery beside his wife Carolyn Tripp who passed away in...