Obit – Mr. Rickey Angel
Mr. Rickey Angel, age 65 of the Turkey Creek Community, was pronounced deceased shortly arrival at 11:45 p.m. Saturday evening April 5, 2025 at the Highpoint Health – Riverview Emergency Room after being discovered unresponsive at the family’s Turkey Creek Highway home by his wife. The call for assistance to Smith County E-911 was received at 10:56 p.m. Saturday evening.
Mr. Angel was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where his funeral services were conducted Thursday morning April 10th at 11 a.m. Mr. Angel’s cousin, Pastor Lanny Thomas, officiated the services. Burial followed in the Garden of Everlasting Life at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.
Mr. Angel was one of two sons born to the late Billy Joe Angel who died May 26, 2006 at the age of 68 and Shelvy Jean Givens Angel who died January 25, 2008 at the age of 69 and was born Rickey Joe Angel at the former Petty-Green Clinic in Carthage on August 23, 1959.
He was a member of the 1977 graduating class at Smith County High School where he was an outstanding athlete and his senior year was voted the “Most Athletic” boy at S.C.H.S.
He played football all four years and was a tri-captain his senior year, played baseball his junior and senior year, the junior year he was voted an All-Highland Conference player, was a member of the “C” Club all four years, and the junior year was a member of the sociology club and his senior year was a member of the Interact Club.
At the Carthage Church of God, he was united in marriage by then pastor, Bishop Alvin Hitchcock to the former Lori Ann Holmes. The vows were solemnized on June 15, 1979.
Mr. Angel retired from the zinc mines in Gordonsville in December of 2023, where his employment spanned over thirty-five years.
In 1998 he joined the Carthage Church of God in South Carthage where he was active in many church programs including the delivering of meals to shut-ins.
He never forgot his love and dedication to the athletic programs at S.C.H.S. and since graduation had been a season ticket holder to all of their football games and also traveled to the away games. His love for the sport of football was unparalleled and he never forgot his love of the game.
Surviving in addition to his wife Lori, of almost forty-six years, is their daughter Rachel Angel Paris and husband Robert of Carthage; son, Jeremy Angel and wife April Martin Angel of Murfreesboro, brother, Mitchell Angel of the Turkey Creek Community; step-grandson, Jayden Moore.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
