Obit – Mrs. Sue Pettross Woosley

Longtime Tanglewood Community resident, Mrs. Sue Pettross Woosley age 87, was pronounced deceased at 6:40 p.m. Friday evening December 6, 2024 under the care of Gentiva Hospice of Lebanon at The Pavilion in Lebanon where she had made her home since November 21, 2018. 

Private graveside services will be conducted with Mike Bounds officiating. Burial will be beside her husband Phil in the Garden of Gethsemane at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.

There will be no public visitation.

Born Sue Carol Pettross in Lebanon on September 23, 1937, she was one of three children, a daughter and two sons of the late Leon Glenn Pettross who died at the age of 80 on June 17, 1996 and Agnes Roberta Wright Pettross who died at the age of 93 on August 14, 2011.

Having been raised on Dogwood Street in Carthage, Mrs. Woosley was a member of the 1956 graduating class at Smith County High School where she majored in music, was the band queen her junior year, was a majorette her final three years and was selected as Miss Majorette her junior year, was in the Glee club, in the dance band her first three years, was a member of the junior play cast, and was in the Dramatic, Spanish, and Latin clubs.

Her scholastic achievements including being in the top eight of her graduating class and was a member of the Beta Club.

She was also selected by her classmates as the most attractive girl in the ’56 graduating class, was a member of the annual staff and served as the senior class representative.

At the Carthage United Methodist Church on May 7, 1960, she was united in marriage to Carthage native Phillip Chism Woosley. He preceded her in death on March 30, 2001 at the age of 64 following almost forty-one years of marriage.

After graduating high school, Mrs. Woosley went to work for Senator Albert Gore, Sr. She then worked at South Central Bell followed by D. T. McCall and Sons in Carthage as the credit manager where she retired.

She possessed an outgoing and pleasing personality and was a lady who could make friends easily. She loved all of her family and friends and was an avid reader and enjoyed traveling.

Mrs. Woosley was saved as a teenager and was a member of the Carthage United Methodist Church where she was active in the ladies’ activities of the church and taught Sunday School to the younger children.

Surviving is her daughter Suzanne Woosley Bounds and husband Mike of Knoxville and Jeff Woosley of the Tanglewood Community; two brothers, L. Glenn Pettross and wife Nancy Woodard Pettross also of the Tanglewood Community and Bobby Pettross and wife Jan of Anderson, South Carolina; two grandchildren, Matthew Bounds and wife Carleigh and Christopher Bounds and fiancée Kiley.

The family requests memorials to St. Jude. 

SANDERSON of CARTHAGE