Obituaries

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...

Graveside service for Mrs. Willie B. Smith age 93, of Fayetteville will be conducted Sunday at 2 PM at Kelso Cemetery with Rev. Tim Smith officiating Mrs. Smith passed away Friday evening at Fayetteville Care and Rehabilitation Center. A native of Lincoln County, she...

Funeral service for Mrs. Evelyn Bailey Hindman Tipps, age 91, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 11 AM Friday at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Tom Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Tipps passed away Tuesday evening at...

Funeral services for Mrs. Alese Askins Motlow, age 84, of Fayetteville will be conducted Wednesday at 1 PM  at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Ann Hatcher officiating. Burial will follow in Mulberry Cemetery beside her late husband William E. (Bill) Motlow Sr....

Graveside funeral service for Mr. Willie C. Wiseman, age 73, of Mimosa will be conducted at 1 PM Wednesday at Booneville Cemetery with Bro. Joe Parks officiating.  Mr. Wiseman passed away Sunday July 4th at his residence. A native of Moore County, Mr. Wiseman was...

Funeral services for Miss Abigail Marie Grimes, age 16, of Fayetteville, will be conducted at 10 AM Tuesday at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Benny Hipps and Rev. Lon Ostrzycki officiating.  Burial will follow in Prospect Cemetery.  Miss Grimes passed away...

Funeral services for Mrs. Opal Lee McPherson Smith, age 84, of Fayetteville will be conducted Thursday afternoon at 1PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Jeff Davis and Rev. Mike Johnson officiating.  Burial will follow in Rose Hill Cemetery.  Mrs. Smith...

Funeral services for Mr. Otis E. A. Tucker, age 90, of Fayetteville will be conducted Thursday at 10AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Bob  Corley and Bro. Joe Brown officiating.  Burial will follow in Macedonia Cemetery beside his wife Wanda Tucker....

Funeral services for Michael Hugh Claiborne II, age 25, of Winchester will be conducted Wednesday at 10AM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Billy Langford officiating.  Burial will follow in the Kirkland Cemetery.  Mr. Claiborne passed away Sunday at...

Funeral services for Mrs. Jane Douglas Moore, age 82, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 3 PM Monday at Fayetteville First United Methodist Church with Rev. Tommy Ward officiating.  Burial will follow in Kelso Cemetery.  Mrs. Moore passed away Saturday...

Funeral services for Mr. Justin Tyler Stewart, age 18, of Fayetteville will be conducted at 11 AM Tuesday at Higgins Funeral Home with Pastor Janell Tucker officiating.  Burial will follow in Stewarts Cemetery.  Mr. Stewart passed away Friday evening. A...

Jack Guyton Jackson passed away peacefully on June 24, 2010, at Alive Hospice at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville, TN.  He was born on February 26, 1924 in Bessemer, AL.  He was preceded in death by parents Mabel Massey and Carl Joseph Jackson and wives...

Funeral services for Mr. Cecil Allen (Al) Watson, age 73 of Steger, IL, will be conducted at 1 PM Wednesday at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Van Johnson officiating.  Burial will follow in Boonshill Cemetery.  Mr. Watson passed away Friday in IL. A son of...

Winston Phillips Brooks 67, died Wednesday, June 16 at the Huntsville Hospital following a brief illness.  Born in Frankfort, Kentucky he was the son of the late Elgan Howard and Jennie Ellison Brooks. As a child attending Robert E. Lee School, he was one of the...

Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Wilson, age 86 of Fayetteville will be conducted Saturday morning at 10AM at Higgins Funeral Home with  Bro. Daniel Hyde  officiating.  Burial will follow in Riverview Memorial Gardens beside her husband Robert “Bobby”...

Graveside funeral services for Mrs. Sharon (Oliver) Harbin, age 64 of Flintville, will be conducted Tuesday morning at 10 AM at Flintville Cemetery with Rev. Cleo Moon officiating.  Mrs. Harbin passed away Saturday evening at Baptist Hospital. Higgins Funeral...

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Louise Ramsey, age 98, of Petersburg will be conducted Friday at 1:00PM at Higgins Funeral Home with Rev. Thomas Smith officiating.  Burial will follow in Boonshill Cemetery beside her husband Leonard Ramsey.  Mrs. Ramsey...

Graveside services for Mr. Michael Engle, age 56, of New Market, AL, formerly of Fayetteville will be conducted Friday afternoon at 1:30PM at Riverview Memorial Gardens with Bro. Jim Black officiating.  Mr. Engle passed away Tuesday June 8th in Huntsville...

Funeral services for Mr. Jerry Lynn Braden, age 57 of Nashville, will be conducted Monday afternoon at 1 PM in the chapel of Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Tom Russell officiating. Mr. Braden passed away Saturday morning at Skyline Medical Center in Nashville. A...