Obituaries

Services for Miss Ann Walling Simms, age 60, of Fayetteville will be conducted Sunday at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home. Miss Simms passed away Thursday night at Donalson Care Center. She was a native of Lincoln County and the daughter of the late Robert Wilson Simms and...

Funeral service for Mrs. Lela Jones Sawyers age 84, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 1:00PM Thursday at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tandy Roberts officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Sawyers passed away Sunday in Lincoln Care...

BOSTON, Mrs. Maxine Towery, age 70 of Franklin, TN, January 26, 2011. A native of Lincoln County, TN the daughter of the late Max B. Towery and Katherine Smith Towery. A graduate of Central High School in Fayetteville, TN and Belmont College in Nashville, TN. Preceded...

Graveside funeral service for Mr. Donald Allen Hamlin age 70, of the Red Oak community, will be conducted Tuesday at 1 PM at Wrights Cemetery with Bro. Chuck Brown officiating. Mr. Hamlin passed away Saturday evening at his residence. A native of Lincoln County, he...

Funeral service for Mrs. Jessie Dell  Price age 75, of Fayetteville will be conducted Monday at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Sonny Moore officiating. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery. Mrs. Price passed away Saturday morning at Lincoln Medical...

Marie Houlihan Haynes age 74 of Fayetteville passed away Thursday January 27th at her residence. She was born March 11, 1936 in County Kildare Ireland. She was the daughter of the late Peter and Bridget Houlihan. At age 11 she emigrated to America with her family. Her...

Graveside services for Virginia Conwell Owen Waldron, age 55, of Petersburg will be conducted Monday at 11AM at Old Orchard Cemetery with Bro. Don Hudson officiating. Mrs. Waldron passed away Thursday at Lincoln Medical Center. She was a native of Lincoln County and...

Funeral services for Miss Eleanor Alberta Croney, age 87, of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday at 1:00PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Chris Jones officiating.  Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Miss Croney passed away Wednesday night at...

Funeral services for Mrs. Marion Jeannette Fincher, age 82, of Macon, GA will be conducted Tuesday at 11AM at Macon Memorial Park in Macon, GA. Mrs. Fincher passed away Saturday morning in Fayetteville. Survivors include daughter Faye Fincher Hill and husband Johnny...

Funeral services for Mrs. Mildred W. Black, age 84, of Palm Harbor, FL will be conducted Friday at 11AM at Higgins Funeral Home with burial to follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Black passed away Friday January 21st in FL. She was a native of Nashville, TN, daughter...

Funeral services for Mrs. Nancy Jones Bagley Hamilton, age 85, of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday at 1:00PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Dr. Calvin Todd officiating. Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Hamilton passed away Thursday morning at...

Funeral services for Mr. Theodore “Teddy” Barnes, age 82, of Kelso will be conducted Friday at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Kirk Smith and Jerry Mansfield officiating . Burial will follow in Unity Cemetery. Mr. Barnes passed away Tuesday evening at Donalson...

Jean Warren Halcomb, age 84, currently of Charlotte, NC, entered into her eternal rest at her residence on Monday Jan. 17, 2011.  Born in Lincoln County, TN, the youngest daughter of Peter and Ida Warren, where she resided until moving to Chattanooga, TN in 1967...

Graveside services for Mrs. Reba Warden Buchanan, age 82, of Fayetteville will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30pm at Riverview Memorial Gardens with Rev. Van Johnson officiating. Burial will be beside her husband Jack B. Buchanan who passed away in 1993. She was...

Funeral services for Mrs. Geneva Smith Malone, age 91, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 2 PM Sunday at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Tommy Ward officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her late husband James M. Malone, Sr.. Mrs. Malone...

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Ruth Rogers Crawford, age 76, of Fayetteville will be conducted Sunday at 11AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Don Gatlin officiating. Burial to follow in Shady Grove Cemetery beside her husband Elbert J. Crawford. Mrs. Crawford passed...

Rufus Scott Steelman, age 88, passed away January 9, 2011 in Fayetteville, TN at Donalson Care Center. Mr. Steelman was born February 23, 1922 in Patton Hollow, Howell, TN. He was the son of Ollie Boone Steelman and Deneva Scott Steelman. He was preceded in death by...

Graveside funeral services for Mrs. Ruby Lee Williams Sydnes (pronounced Sydneys), age 88, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 3:30pm Saturday at Kirkland Cemetery. Mrs. Sydnes passed away Saturday morning in Lincoln Care Center. A native of Florida, she was a...

Funeral service for Mrs. Ettie Lucille Cash Haney, age 85, of Lincoln Community will be conducted at 2 PM Saturday at Higgins Funeral Home with Darrell Haney and Ryan Tate officiating. Burial will follow Lincoln Cemetery; she will be buried beside her late husband...

Funeral services for Mrs. Annie R. Dollar Swinford, age 89 of Fayetteville will be conducted Sunday at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Don Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Kirkland Cemetery beside her husband Johnson Swinford. Mrs. Swinford passed away...

Funeral services for Betty Mary Olsen Schweitzer, age 85, of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday at 11am at St. Mary's Episcopal Church with Rev. Jim Rogers, Rev. Tom Wilson and Rev. Julie Anna Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Watertown, CT at a later date....

Funeral services for Mrs. Carolyn Thompson Spray, age 64, of Fayetteville will be conducted Wednesday at 3PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Greg Wiser officiating. Burial will follow in Lebanon Cemetery beside her husband Joe Spray who passed away in 2006. Mrs....

Funeral services for Mr. David Allen Posey, age 27, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 1 PM Wednesday at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Joe Wayne McGee officiating. Burial will follow in Carter Hills Cemetery. Mr. Posey passed away Saturday afternoon at his...

David Jackson Leftwich, age 69, of Fayetteville, passed away Wednesday December 29th in Lynchburg Care Center. Mr. Leftwich was born June 23, 1941 in Fayetteville and was the son of the late Jackson H. Leftwich and Lottie Smith Leftwich who survives. Survivors in...

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Fanning Davis, age 84, of Elora will be conducted Friday at 1:00PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Dr. Bob Hill and Bro. Keith Wilson officiating. Burial will follow in Elora Cemetery. Mrs. Davis passed away Tuesday afternoon at Lincoln...

Graveside funeral services for Mr. Kenneth Lee Carver, age 74, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 2 PM Wednesday at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens in Nashville. Mr. Carver passed away Sunday morning at Lincoln Medical Center. A son of the late Hulen L. and Edith Brown...

Funeral services for Mr. Clay Cross, age 75, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 2 PM Tuesday at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Gatlin Cemetery. Mr. Cross passed away Friday evening at Lincoln Medical Center. A son of the late Morris and Pearl Lewter...

Graveside funeral services for Mrs. Ruth I. Hall, age 81, of Kelso will be conducted at 2 PM Monday at Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens with Bro. Craig Clemons officiating. Mrs. Hall passed away Saturday morning at her residence. She will be buried beside her...

Funeral services for Mabel Owen Kidd Hambrick, age 94, of Fayetteville will be conducted Wednesday at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Pastor Bill Moede and Rev. Tim Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Hambrick passed away Monday...

Graveside services for Infant Devin Cole Crabtree will be conducted at 1:00PM Wednesday at Blanche Cemetery with Pastor Bobby Bates officiating. Higgins Funeral Home is in charge of services. He was the son of Joel Lee Crabtree and Heidi M. Kristek of Fayetteville....

Funeral services for Ms. JoAnn Pruitt Williams, age 74, of Murfreesboro, formerly of Fayetteville, will be conducted Tuesday at 12PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Harold Miller and Rev. Kirk Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery. Ms. Williams...

Graveside funeral services for Mrs. Louise G. Campbell, age 88, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 2 PM Tuesday at Rice Cemetery in New Market, AL with Rev. Thomas Smith and Rev. Ann Hatcher officiating. Mrs. Campbell will be buried beside her husband, Gordon L....

Funeral services for Mrs. Judy Young Wolkowski, age 61, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 7  PM Monday evening at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Ennis Hyman officiating. Mrs. Wolowski passed away Saturday morning at Lincoln Medical Center. A daughter of the...

Funeral service for Mrs. Ethel Mae Smith Cowan age 72, of Fayetteville will be conducted Monday at 1 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Harold Boggs officiating. Burial will follow in Carter Hills Cemetery beside her late husband Marvin Cowan. Mrs Cowan passed away...

Funeral services for James Walter Howard, age 84 of Fayetteville will be conducted Sunday at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black and Steve Stewart officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mr. Howard passed away Friday morning at his...

Graveside services for Mr. James Harold Boaz, age 82, of Fayetteville will be conducted Sunday at 2PM at Lebanon Cemetery with Rev. Dana Crowell and Rev. Charles Edgar officiating. Mr. Boaz passed away Thursday night at Donalson Care Center. He was a native of Lincoln...

Smith, Shelby Max, age 50 Born January 3, 1960 and died suddenly in his home December 12, 2010. He was a native of Lincoln County and made his home in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was a former member of the West End Baptist Church. He was an electrician and did home...

Memorial services for Mr. James L. McKinney, age 83, of Fayetteville will be conduced at 2 PM Saturday, December 18, 2010, at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Ann A. Hatcher officiating. Mr. McKinney passed away Saturday evening surrounded by his family at Lincoln Care...

Funeral services for Mrs. Evelyn Elsa Ross, age 79, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 11 AM Wednesday at Prospect Baptist Church with Dr. Ronnie Gay officiating. Burial will follow in Prospect Cemetery. Mrs. Ross passed away Saturday morning at her residence. A...

Funeral service for Mr. Marty Bryant age 35, of Petersburg will be conducted at 2 PM Monday at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Don Hudson officiating. Burial will follow in Booneville Cemetery. Mr Bryant passed away Friday at his residence. A native of Lincoln County,...