Obit – Mrs. Charlotte Sircy Fox
Mrs. Charlotte Sircy Fox age 82 of Hermitage was pronounced deceased at 1:02 a.m. Saturday morning November 8, 2025 at the Alive Hospice Residence in Murfreesboro where she was admitted twelve hours earlier following a period of declining health.
Bro. Steve Waller officiated at the 11 a.m. Wednesday morning November 12th funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Bill Cothern delivered the eulogy and burial followed in the Sircy Lot beside her husband Richard, in the West Section at the Dixon Springs Cemetery.
She was the only daughter of the late Charles Edward (Ed) Sircy who died October 1, 1968 at the age of 72 and Nellie Ruth Hackett Sircy who died October 10, 2005 at the age of 83 and was born Charlotte June Sircy at the St. Thomas Hospital, then located on Hayes Street in Nashville on December 27, 1942.
She was a member of the 1960 graduating class at Smith County High School where she majored in science and mathematics. She played basketball and was a member of the Spanish Club her junior and senior year, was a member of the Future Homemakers of America her first three years, the Art Club all four years.
The statement made of her in the “60 Owl yearbook was; “Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?”
Mrs. Sircy-Fox was saved in August of 1958 and in 1963 joined the former Peyton Creek Missionary Baptist Church in the Monoville Community.
Follow graduation from high school she attended the nurse program at the old Nashville General Hospital and was licensed as a Registered Nurse in 1963. Her first employment was at the former Smith County Hospital and was tutored under then head of nursing, Martha Hesson of Pleasant Shade who was the head of nursing and her longest employment was with the State of Tennessee and where she was first stationed at the former Cloverbottom School.
At the Fairway United Methodist Church (now Donelson Heights) in Donelson on February 9, 1968 she was united in marriage to Memphis native, Richard Chester Fox III. He preceded her in death at the age of 80 on November 14, 2022. They had been married almost fifty-five years when Richard died.
She retired from the State of Tennessee as an R.N. on July 2, 2007.
Never had any children, she is survived by several cousins, Lana Reece Kinslow and husband Larry of Carthage, Kellie Thompson Payne and husband Mark of the Brush Creek Community, Andrea Kinslow Brown and husband Stephen of the Rome Community, Kathy Ford Reece of Carthage, Brent and Courtney Reece of Lebanon, John Thompson and wife Beth of Gordonsville, Larry (Tiger) Kinslow of Carthage, and Jerry Sircy of Shelbyville.
The family has requested memorials to the Smith County Humane Society.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
