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OBIT: Mr. Randy Keith True

Mr. Randy Keith True

Mr. Randy True of the Pleasant Shade Community was discovered unconscious at his Sloan Branch Road home on Friday afternoon by his wife.

Smith County E-911 received a call to the home at 4:15 p.m. Friday afternoon October 5th.

Mr. True was pronounced deceased at the Riverview Regional Medical Center E. R. in Carthage at 5 p.m. at the age of 33.

Services were conducted from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 9 with his Pastor, Bro. David Royalty, and Eld. Michael Horton officiating. A graveside service and interment followed at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday afternoon in the Forest Grove Cemetery in Joelton.

Born Randy Keith True Jr. at Baptist Hospital in Nashville on April 29, 1986, he was one of three children of Randy Keith True Sr. and Susan Charlene Horton True of Ashland City.

Mr. True was a 2004 graduate of Sycamore High School in Ashland City where he excelled as an athlete and was a member of multiple County Champion, District Champion, and State Playoff basketball teams.

In Smyrna on July 18, 2015, he was united in marriage by Eld. Michael Horton to Pleasant Shade Community native Amanda Elizabeth Ragland, who survives.

He was employed as a forklift operator and was a member of First Baptist Church Joelton where he was baptized on January 28, 1996.

Surviving in addition to his parents and his wife of over four years are their son, Lucas Walter True; his siblings, Steven True & wife Allison of Hermitage, Christina True of Ashland City; his father-in-law & mother-in-law, Eld. Gerald & Susan Ragland of Pleasant Shade; paternal grandparents, Charles True Sr. & Donna Kay True of Goodletsville.

The True family requested memorials to the Lucas True Education Fund.

SANDERSON of CARTHAGE