Obit – Mrs. Geraldine Armstrong
An Elmwood Community housewife and former relief Postmaster, Mrs. Geraldine Armstrong, transitioned from her earthly home into the arms of the Angels at 6:37 p.m. with her husband and family at her bedside. She was pronounced deceased at the family’s Ferrell Lane home at 7:42 p.m. Saturday evening May 25, 2024 by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston, who had been assisting her family with love and compassion since Mrs. Armstrong’s declining health.
Her two sons, Pastors Scotty Armstrong and Brian Armstrong, will remember their mother as we all celebrate the life she has lived. The funeral services were scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday morning May 30th from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed in the Garden of the Cross at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.
She was the middle child, and the second to die, of seven children born to the late Campbell Dawson Brown who died July 2, 1983 at the age of 67 and Gladys Coffee Brown who died two months and twenty seven days later on September 29, 1983 at the age of 64. Mrs. Armstrong was born Gladys Brown in the Fairview Community of Jackson County near Gainesboro on July 31, 1948.
A sister, Irene Veachel Brown (Mrs. Sammy) Rigsby preceded her in death on February 15, 2007 at the age of 68.
In Murfreesboro on September 1, 1965, she was united in marriage to Barney Edward Armstrong Jr..
They were sadly preceded in death by a 3 month old son, Steven Anthony Armstrong, who died December 4, 1971.
Mrs. Armstrong was saved in 1972 at the age of 24 and at the time of her death was a member of the Wind of Pentecost Apostolic Church in South Carthage which is pastored by her son Brian.
She was a relief postmaster for over twenty years before her retirement and served mainly at the Elmwood Post office and also at Chestnut Mound, Buffalo Valley and the Hickman offices.
Surviving are her two sons, Pastor Scotty Armstrong and wife Susan of St. Louis, Missouri, Pastor Brian Armstrong and wife Andrea Frazier Armstrong of South Carthage; three sisters, Mary Allen of the Elmwood Community, Betty Wilkerson and husband Benny of the Grant Community, Debbie Butler and husband Gary of the Defeated Creek Community; two brothers, Sammy Brown and wife Dymple Mofield Brown, Danny Brown and wife Janice, all of Lebanon; four grandchildren, Chris Armstrong and wife Sarah of St. Louis, Missouri, Rachel Armstrong Oliver-Childress and husband Zach of Detroit, Michigan, Brandy Armstrong Reeves and husband Mykul of the Saltillo Community in Hardin County, Tennessee, Adrienne Armstrong of South Carthage; seven great-grandchildren, Ethan, Asher, Alora, Kedric, River, Oakyn, and Jensen.
The Armstrong family has requested memorials to the Wind of Pentecost Apostolic Church.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
