Obit – Ms. Jamie Ruth Dance
A widely known Smith County paralegal has departed this life at the age of 64.
A memorial gathering for Jamie Ruth Dance to celebrate her life was held Thursday afternoon September 5th at 1 p.m. from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Her pastors, Bro. Jim Wilburn and Bro. Tim Frank officiated.
Ms. Jamie Ruth Dance of South Carthage was pronounced deceased Sunday afternoon September 1, 2024 at the Vanderbilt-Wilson County Hospital in Lebanon after a brief illness.
Jamie Ruth Dance was born in Nashville on Valentines Day of 1960, and was the daughter of the late Emma Sue Flatt of Old Hickory and retired Carthage Attorney James Bedford Dance of Rome.
The Dance family relocated to Carthage from Nashville in 1973 following Mr. Dance’s graduation from the Nashville School of Law. He practiced law on Main Street in Carthage until he retired in April of 2022.
Ms. Dance was a member of the 1978 graduating class at Smith County High School. There she was a member of the Future Homemakers of America, the Vocational and Industrial class and the office and business co-op programs.
For many years Ms. Dance was very involved in her father’s law practice. She graduated from Cumberland University in Lebanon with a bachelors degree in business and continued her education at the Nashville School of Law where she, upon graduation in 2010, received her Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree. She was also a certified Tennessee Law Arbitrator and did much work on Social Security disability claims for many clients.
In 2012 she was united in marriage to Stephen Wade (Big Steve) Taylor, an Arab, Alabama native and retired Lawrenceburg home builder. He preceded her in death at the age of 62 in 2015.
She was saved in 2019 and was baptized by then church Pastor, Bro. Tim Frank, and became a member of the First Baptist Church of Carthage.
Surviving in addition to her father, Jim Dance is her step-mother, Nona Dance also of the Rome Community and her brother, Carless Dance of the Fairfield Glade Community in Crossville.
Because of her love for animals, the Dance family has requested memorials in Jamie’s memory be made to the American Humane Society.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
