Obit – Mr. Ray Sircy
A longtime Rawls Creek Community farmer, Mr. Ray Sircy was pronounced deceased at 6:06 p.m. Monday evening August 5, 2024 at the Highpoint – Riverview Emergency Room where he was admitted at the age of 87 with C. P. R. in progress at 5:58 p.m. earlier that evening. He was discovered unresponsive at his Ray Sircy Lane farm home and a call for assistance was received by Smith County E-911 at 5:23 p.m.
Friday morning August 9th funeral services were conducted by Eld. Anthony Dixon from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home and his son, Mike Sircy delivered the eulogy. Burial was beside his wife, Anita, in the Amonette-Taylor section at the Dixon Springs Cemetery.
He was born Fred Ray Sircy in the Difficult Community in the McCormick Hollow and was the seventh of fourteen children of the late Henry Sircy who died at the age of 75 on January 19, 1976 and Mary Lilly Morman Sircy who died at the age of 76 on October 1, 1987.
Eight siblings preceded him in death, they were Mamie Lee Sircy Kittrell who died November 30, 2015 at the age of 86, the first to die was Jula Mai Sircy who died at the age of 2 months on March 5, 1931, Carl Sircy who died at the age of 48 on February 9, 1990, George Henry Sircy who died at the age of 64 on May 4, 1997, Mary “Sis” Richardson who died at the age of 83 on February 16, 2011, Bessie Mai Enoch who died at the age of 77 on February 23, 2012, Bertha Lilly Thompson who died at the age of 89 on October 16, 2014 and Johnny Sircy who died at the age of 76 on July 15, 2015.
At the North Carthage Missionary Baptist Church on November 26, 1964, he was united in marriage to the former Anita Mae Whittemore by then church pastor, the Late Eld. R. D. Brooks.
She preceded him in death on January 27, 2017 at the age of 75 following a long battle with cancer. Following almost fifty-three years of marriage.
Mr. Sircy was a member of the East Carthage Missionary Baptist Church.
He had a great love for the outdoors and enjoyed farming and had a successful life as a tobacco farmer.
Surviving are his two children, Ashley Sircy Massey and son, Smith County Farmers Cooperative Manager Mike Sircy and wife Martina Martin Sircy all of the Rawls Creek Community; three grandchildren, Caleb Massey, Alex Massey, and Braxton Sircy all of the Rawls Creek Community; four sisters, Eller Sircy and Jean Sircy Gibbs both of the Russell Hill Community, Janie Sircy Croslin, and the youngest of the fourteen children, of Lebanon, Geraldine Sircy Likens of the McClures Bend Community; brother, Herbert Sircy and wife Carolyn of the Russell Hill Community.
The Sircy family requests memorials to either the St. Jude Hospital in Memphis or the Jordan Hackett Foundation.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
