Obituaries

Funeral services for Mr. Jerry Lynn Brown, age 19, of Fayetteville will be conducted Wednesday at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Sonny Moore officiating. Burial will follow in Stewarts Cemetery. He was a native of Lincoln County and the son of the late Jerry...

Funeral services for Mr. Wayne Lloyd Barnes, age 75 of the Howell Community, will be conducted Tuesday morning at 11 at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Todd Gaskill and Rev. Kirk Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Unity Cemetery. Mr Barnes passed away Saturday...

Graveside funeral services for Mrs. Patricia Marilyn Scivally, age 57, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 2 PM Monday at Pleasant Hill Cemetery with Pastor Benny Hipps officiating. Mrs. Scivally passed away Saturday morning at her residence. A daughter of the late...

Funeral services for Mrs. Viola Tucker Smartt, age 69, of Fayetteville will be conducted Wednesday at 1:00PM  at Higgins Funeral Home with Pastor James Holt and Kathleen Marr officiating. Burial will follow in Prosperity Cemetery.  Mrs. Smartt passed away...

Funeral services for Mrs. Mayme Massey Hensley, age 91, of Fayetteville will be conducted Friday at 1PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Donald Ramey officiating.  Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens.  Mrs. Hensley passed away Tuesday morning...

Funeral services for Mrs. Wilma D. Norman, age 79, of Flintville will be conducted Tuesday at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Willie Banks officiating.  Burial will follow in Flintville Cemetery beside her husband L. W. Norman who passed away in 2005. ...

Larry Eugene Askins Born October 25, 1936 In Petersburg, TN Passed away September 24, 2010 in Germantown, TN Son of Thelma Eugenia McGeehee Askins and Ralph Wilson Askins, Sr. Graduated from Middle TN State Teachers College and University of TN, Knoxville. He taught...

Funeral services for Nina Sue Swinford, age 80, of Franklin will be conducted at 2 PM Monday at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Keith Crowe and Bro. Perry Cothran officiating.  Burial will follow in Campbell Cemetery beside her husband Charles C. Swinford. ...

Graveside services for Mr. Jerry Wade Moorehead, age 61, of Fayetteville will be conducted Wednesday morning at 10AM at Lincoln Cemetery with Alan Moorehead officiating.  Mr. Moorehead passed away Monday afternoon in Huntsville Hospital. Higgins Funeral Home is...

Funeral services for Mrs. Muscedas Pearl Towry  Smith, age 88, native of Lincoln County, TN will be conducted at 1 PM Tuesday at Higgins Funeral Home with  Rev. Don Schultz and Rev. Mike Johnson officiating.  Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills...

Dorothy Hobbs Mitchell passed away September 16th at Donalson Care Center.  She was born October 19, 1921 in the McBurg community where she lived most of her life.  She was a member of the McBurg Methodist Church and was a retired employee of Jonathan Logan....

Funeral services for Mr. Shirley Joe Groce, age 65, of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday at 11AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Bill Cantrell and Jason Weddington officiating.  Burial will follow in Booneville Cemetery.  Mr. Groce passed away...

Funeral services for Mr. John Calvin Bowden, Jr., age 60, of Fayetteville will be conducted Thursday at 1:00PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Paul Clayton officiating.  Burial will follow in Stewarts Cemetery.  Mr. Bowden passed away Monday afternoon at...

Graveside services for Rodna Mae Archer Edwards, age 66, of Shelbyville will be conducted Wednesday at 12:30PM at Talley Cemetery with Higgins Funeral Home in charge. Ms. Edwards passed away Sunday September 12, 2010 at Vanderbilt Medical Center. She was a native of...

Memorial services for Mr. Danny Pirtle, age 60, of Taft will be conducted at 6:00PM Friday night at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Chester Slayton officiating. Mr. Pirtle passed away Tuesday afternoon at his residence. He was a native of Lincoln County, the son of the...

Funeral services for Mrs. Jean Phillips Koonce, age 65, of Tullahoma will be conducted at 2 PM Sunday at Higgins Funeral Home with Pastor Mary Shelton officiating. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery beside her husband Robert Koonce. Mrs. Koonce passed away...

Funeral services for Mrs. Mattie Lou Miles Sullenger, age 92, of Lynchburg will be conducted Wednesday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Matthew Sullenger officiating. Burial will follow in Lynchburg Cemetery beside her husband R.L. “Bull” Sullenger. Mrs....

Funeral service for Mrs. Brenda L. Randolph, age 65, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 10 AM Tuesday at Higgins Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Prosperity Cemetery. Mrs. Randolph passed away Saturday evening at her residence. A native of Lincoln County, she was...

Memorial services for Mrs. Norma Cummings, age 82, of Kingwood, TX, formerly of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday September 18th at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home in Fayetteville. Mrs. Cummings died of natural causes on August 13th in Kingwood, TX. She was a native...

Funeral services for Mrs. Marjorie Daw Crabtree Stevenson (Margie) age 85, will be conducted Monday afternoon at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home. Mrs. Stevenson died August 13, 2010 at NHC Place in Franklin, surrounded by her loving nieces, nephews and best friend Grace...

Funeral service for Mark R. Hobbs age 64, of Fayetteville will be conducted Sunday at 2 PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Wilburn Carter and Bro. Ray Pitts officiating. Burial will follow in Higgins Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens. Mr. Hobbs passed away Friday morning...

Robert P. Little, Jr., age 67 of Fayetteville, Tennessee, passed away Thursday, August 12. Born to Robert P. Little, Sr. and Helen N. Little of Piedmont, Alabama. Robert was a graduate of Jacksonville State University. He retired from NASA after 33 years of service....

Funeral service for Mrs. Martha Dolen Haislip Smith age 86, of Fayetteville will be conducted Tuesday at 10 AM at Higgins Funeral Home, with Bro. Jim Black officiating. Burial will follow in Wrights Cemetery beside her late husband Lee Wayne Smith who died in 1997....

Funeral services for Mrs. Wilma Jean Simmons McCormick, age 82, of Fayetteville will be conducted Tuesday morning at 11AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. John Hinson and Rev. Charles Jones officiating. Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery beside her husband Lee Roy...

Paul Thomas Johnson died August 26, 2010 in Taneytown, MD while visiting family. Born June 10, 1937 to the late Rev. George R. and Olive Ruggles Johnson. He is survived by his wife of 50 years Elizabeth (Betty) Johnson, two sons Thomas Paul Johnson of Fayetteville,...

Funeral services for Mrs. Ettie Elizabeth Cannon Moore, age 91, of Fayetteville will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 4PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Richard Rogers and Bro. Donald Ramey officiating. Burial will follow in Stewarts Cemetery beside her husband...

Funeral services for Mr. Kevin Lee Gentry, age 22, of Petersburg will be conducted Tuesday at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Greg Wiser officiating. Burial will follow in Lebanon Cemetery. Mr. Gentry passed away Sunday morning. He was a native of Lincoln County and...

Funeral services for Mrs. Mildred Boyd Edwards, age 83, Flintville will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Mike Robinson and Rev. Benny Hipps officiating. Burial will follow in Flintville Cemetery beside her husband Emmett Edwards...

Funeral Mass for Mrs. Doris Marie Robert Brown, age 92, of Fayetteville will be conducted at St. Anthony Catholic Church at 10 AM Wednesday with Father Jose officiating. Entombment will follow at 1 PM in Valhalla Memory Gardens beside her husband Ernest George Brown....

Funeral services for Mr. James L. (Jim) Parrish, age 76, of Flintville will be conducted at 11 AM Monday at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Milton Martin officiating. Burial will follow in Lincoln Cemetery. Mr. Parrish passed away at his residence on Friday. A son of...

Mrs. Alberta P. Breaux, age 95, of Fayetteville formerly of St. Martinville, Lousiana passed away Thursday August 5th at Donalson Care Center. Mrs. Breaux was the daughter of the late Wallace and Catherine Boudreaux Peltier, a homemaker and a member of the St. Anthony...

A graveside funeral service for Mrs. Louise Cummings, age 88, of the Petersburg Community will be conducted at 10:30 AM Tuesday at Old Orchard Cemetery in Petersburg with Rev. Troy Green officiating. Mrs. Cummings passed away Sunday evening at her residence. A...

Funeral services for Mr. Henry “Heck” West, age 81, of Fayetteville will be conducted Wednesday at 2PM at Higgins Funeral Home by members of Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks Lodge 1792 and Bro. Chris Jones. Burial will follow in Stewarts Cemetery. Mr. West...

Graveside services for Mr. Eugene Childress Patton, age 77, of the Boonshill Community will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 3PM on the family farm at 2616 Pulaski Highway. Mr. Patton passed away Thursday July 22nd at his residence. He was a native of Memphis, TN, son...

Funeral services for Mrs. Rachel Price Land Bliss, age 86, of Hammond, IN will be conducted Saturday at 11AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Bobby Bates officiating.  Burial will follow in Cedar Hills Memorial Gardens.  Mrs. Bliss passed away Tuesday...

Funeral services for Mr. Henry Harwell Clark, age 85, of Fayetteville will be conducted Thursday morning at 11AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Jim Black  officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mr. Clark passed away Tuesday morning...

Jeffie Harrison Welch, age 91, of Fayetteville, TN. born October 3, 1918 passed away July 21, 2010 after a brief illness.  A lifelong resident of Lincoln County, she was preceded in death by parents, Thomas Garland and Ola Mai West Harrison, four brothers,...

Rebecca Ann Locker Carter, age 81, of the Coldwater community, died Wednesday (July 21, 2010) at Donalson Care Center in Fayetteville.  A devoted mother to her seven children, Mrs. Carter was a native of Lincoln County and the daughter of the late Ernest C. and...

Funeral services for Mrs. Ethyleen Gibson, age 93, of Petersburg will be conducted at 1PM Saturday at Higgins Funeral Home  with Pastor Frank Edwards officiating.  Burial will follow in Old Orchard Cemetery beside her husband Harmon Gleaves Gibson who passed...

Funeral services for Mrs. Mildred F. Blaylock, age 87, of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday at 11AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. James Arrington and Pastor Jeff Young officiating.  Burial will follow in Macedonia Cemetery beside her husband Ollie...