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OBIT: Mrs. Judith Rigsby Griesinger

Mrs. Judith Rigsby Griesinger, of Old Hickory, died at 3:10 p.m. Friday afternoon April 4, 2019 of at the Skyline Medical Center in Nashville from complications of a stroke suffered at her Catskill Drive home on Tuesday morning March 26th.

Graveside services were conducted Sunday afternoon April 7th at 3 p.m. with Jim Langlois officiating. Burial followed beside her husband in the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Franklin, Tennessee.

She was one of four children of the late Herman Mosie (Jack) Rigsby who died at the age of 68 on August 31, 1979 and Nettie Geneva Boulton Rigsby who died at the age of 93 on November 22, 2010.

A brother, Sammy King Rigsby, preceded her in death on December 7, 2017 at the age of 71.

Mrs. Griesinger was preceded in death by her husband who suffered a massive heart attack at the age of 52 on September 11, 2010.

She was retired from the Whirlpool Corporation in Smyrna.

Mrs. Griesinger was a 1965 graduate of Smith County High School where she majored in Home Economics and Business Education. She was a member of the Future Homemakers of America and her sophomore, junior and senior year was a member of the “Lady Owls” basketball squad.

She is survived by her daughter, Laura Skelton Kirby and husband Rob of Gordonsville; granddaughter, Tamara Davis and husband Brent of the Grant Community; sister, Jacqueline Bane and husband former Smith County Sheriff Johnny Bane of the Bradford Hill Community; brother, Ricky Rigsby of the Pea Ridge Community.

This notice provided as a courtesy to the Judith Rigsby Griesinger family.

SANDERSON of CARTHAGE