Obit – Mrs. Elizabeth (Peggy) Fleeman

Mrs. Elizabeth (Peggy) Fleeman age 91, a homemaker of Lafayette, was pronounced deceased at 10:33 p.m. Friday evening, Valentines Day February 14, 2025, with her family at her bedside. She was under the care of Gentiva Hospice of Lebanon. 

Eld. James Shoulders assisted by Eld. Kenneth Wix officiated the 11 a.m. Tuesday morning February 18th funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson. Burial was near her mother in the Dias section at the Dixon Springs Cemetery. 

She was the eldest of two daughters born to the late Frank Elbert Farmer who died May 27, 1951 at the age of 41 and Georgia Alexander Moss Farmer who died October 20, 2003 at the age of 93 and was born Elizabeth Marie Famer in South Carthage on June 7, 1933. Her nickname Peggy, was given to her by her father because that was what he wanted to name her, but her mother would not agree. What her father called her was the name that stuck until death.

At the Trousdale County Courthouse on July 21, 2005, she was united in marriage to Murphy Fleeman.

She was saved at the age of 13 in 1946 at the Maces Hill Missionary Baptist Church, and years later was baptized into the full fellowship of the McFerrin Missionary Baptist Church in Madison, where she retained her membership until her death.

Surviving in addition to her husband of just nineteen years is a son, Dwight Shoulders of Lafayette; daughter, Dianne Tramel and husband Ron of Murfreesboro; sister, Wanda Cantrell-Vickers of Nashville; four grandchildren, Stephanie Mansfield and husband Jay of Murfreesboro, Mikey Tramel and wife Nicole of Manchester, Sandi Gardner and husband Mike of Greenbrier, Mary Wietecha and husband Scott of Hendersonville; nine great-grandchildren.

SANDERSON of CARTHAGE