Obit – Mr. Roy Armistead Jr.
Longtime New Middleton Community resident, Mr. Roy Armistead Jr. departed this life at 1 p.m. Wednesday afternoon October 8, 2025 at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville where he was admitted October 3rd. Mr. Armistead was 84.
Mr. Armistead was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home and will be cremated at the Cumberland Family Services in Algood. His family will observe a private memorial service at a later date.
Born Roy Eugene Armistead Jr. in the Stonewall Community on November 14, 1940, he was one of six children, three daughters and three sons of the late Elmwood Community native Roy Eugene Armistead Sr. who died October 10, 1985 at the age of 63 and Watertown native Thomasene “Billie” Willey Armistead who died March 2, 2014 at the age of 90.
He was preceded in death by a sister, Donna Harris Armistead who died at the age of 56 on July 27, 2002, David L. Armistead who died also at the age of 56 on November 8, 1998 and William Steven (Steve) Armistead who died at the age of 67 on January 15, 2015.
Mr. Armistead was a member of the 1958 graduating class at Smith County High School where he was a basketball all-star his junior and senior year as well as football player where he played the position of fullback & right end under legendary coach Turney Ford. Roy Jr. was a member of the historic S.C.H.S. football team that defeated Madison 27 to 21 in the first ever Tobacco Bowl played in Hartsville in 1957.
With a major in foreign languages, and as an outstanding athlete, he was a member of the “C” Club, and his junior and senior year he was a member of the Spanish Club and Latin Club where he served as vice-president his senior year.
His classmates stated of him in the ’58 annual, “A wise man does not try to hurry history”.
On January 15, 1963 he was united in marriage to New Middleton resident, the former Paula Oakley.
Mr. Armistead retired from the Vulcan Materials Corporation in 2005.
He attended the New Middleton Baptist Church.
He was a true outdoorsman, was an avid fisherman, mostly fishing for bass and participated in many fishing tournaments and truly enjoyed any kind of hunting.
Surviving in addition to his wife Paula, of almost sixty-three years are their two children, Kim Armistead Lamont and husband Steve of the New Middleton Community; son, Greg Armistead of Hermitage; two sisters, Carol Armistead Keegan and husband Frank of Columbia, Tennessee, Sara Armistead of Morristown, Tennessee; two grandchildren, Emily Lamont King and husband Zakk of Algood, Lauren Lamont of Raleigh, North Carolina.
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