Obit – Mrs. Peggy Ann Lewis
Mrs. Peggy Ann Lewis of the Brush Creek Community died peacefully at 5 a.m. Sunday morning May 26, 2024 at the age of 87 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage.
Funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home were conducted on Wednesday afternoon May 29th at 1 p.m. with her pastor, Bro. Wayne Malone, officiating. A nephew, Bill Bush, delivered the eulogy. Interment followed beside her son Todd in the Garden of Gethsemane at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.
She was the tenth child of eleven children and was born Peggy Ann Napier in The Rome Community on July 27, 1936 and was the daughter of the late Johnny Weaver Napier Sr. who died at the age of 78 on July 14, 1971 and Martha Ann Waddle Napier who died November 11, 1970 at the age of 72.
She endured the loss of many family and friends who were very dear to her heart. Her husband Forks River Elementary School principal, Jerry Walter Lewis died July 4, 1971 at the age of 31 as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident which occurred twenty six days earlier in the Rome Community and her son, Christopher Todd Lewis a Family Nurse Practitioner, who died of natural causes May 26, 2011 at the age of 45, exactly thirteen years, to the day, before his Mother.
She also suffered the loss of a longtime special companion, Mr. Wilson Cripps Jr. of the Brush Creek Community, who died at the age of 85 on February2, 2024.
All ten of her siblings preceded her in death. They were Elmer and Albert Napier, Arlis (Slim) Napier who died April 19, 1971 at the age of 59, Paul Napier, Mary Frances Napier Bennett Mofield who died March 17, 2015 at the age of 80, Johnny Weaver Napier Jr. who died April 2, 1996 at the age of 56, Martha Pearl Napier Bush who died January 21, 2009 at the age of 81, Dewey W. Napier who died June 1, 1975 at the age of 85, and twins Ethel Napier Fleming who died June 12, 2002 at the age of 85 and Bethel Napier.
Mrs. Lewis was a lady who expressed great love and caring for her family and friends and was respected by all with whom she came in contact.
She was saved at the age of 13 and was baptized and became a member of the Rome Baptist Church and was also a recipient of her General Education Degree, both of which made her extremely proud.
She retired from the former Texas Boot Company in Carthage when it closed in the early nineties.
Surviving is her son, Cumberland University Chief of Security and Smith County Board of Education member, Scotty Lewis and wife Pam of the Elmwood Community; five grandchildren, Dr. Lauren Cooper and husband Tennessee State Trooper Tommy Cooper also of the Elmwood Community, Ryan Lewis of the Elmwood Community and a career employee of the William L. Bonnell Company in Gordonsville, Stephanie McCaleb owner of Stephanie McCaleb Interiors in Carthage and husband Jonah of Gordonsville, of R. M. McCaleb Transportation, Samantha Lewis occupational therapy graduate student and Seth Lewis, Technical Assistant for the Smith County Board of Education both of the Elmwood Community; one great-grandson, Ben Cooper.
The Lewis family requests memorials to the Rome Baptist Church.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
