Obit – Eller Sircy
A longtime Macon Community Hospital R. N. and former Smith County Hospital R.N., Eller Sircy of the Russell Hill Community, departed this life at the age of 80 on Friday morning November 28, 2025. She was pronounced deceased at 11:28 a.m. at the Macon Community Hospital in Lafayette and where she was admitted from her Sircy Ridge Lane home with heart failure on Thursday morning November 20th.
Her nephew, Eld. Dean Sircy, officiated at the 1 p.m. Tuesday afternoon December 2nd funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed in the Sircy lot at the Davis Cemetery in the Russell Hill Community.
A chapel service was conducted at the beginning of the funeral service by the Tennessee Nurses Honor Guard.
Born Frances Eller Sircy on Sircy Ridge Lane on July 21, 1945, she was the eleventh of fourteen children born to the late Henry Sircy who died January 19, 1976 at the age of 75 and Mary Lilly Morman Sircy who died October 1, 1987 at the age of 76.
Preceding her in death were eleven sisters and brothers, Geraldine Sircy Likens who died October 18, 2024 at the age of 77, Velma Jean Sircy-Gibbs who died August 17, 2024 at the age of 81, Fred Ray Sircy who died August 5, 2024 at the age of 87, Mamie Lee Sircy Kittrell who died November 30, 2015 at the age of 86, the first to die was Jula Mai Sircy who died at the age of 2 months on March 5, 1931, Carl Sircy who died at the age of 48 on February 9, 1990, George Henry Sircy who died at the age of 64 on May 4, 1997, Mary “Sis” Sircy Richardson who died at the age of 83 on February 16, 2011, Bessie Mai Enoch who died at the age of 77 on February 23, 2012, Bertha Lilly Sircy Thompsom who died at the age of 89 on October 16, 2014 and Johnny Sircy who died at the age of 76 on July 15, 2015.
She attended Smith County High School where she received her General Education Degree.
As a young girl her family attended and were members of the Russell Hill Missionary Baptist Church.
Miss Sircy was a Tennessee Licensed Practical Nurse, a graduate of the L.P.N. program in Carthage taught by the late Mrs. Polly Beasley and received her Bachelors in Nursing from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville.
A highly sought after nurse, after leaving the former Smith County Memorial Hospital she was employed at Trousdale Medical Center, Clay County Hospital, Jackson County Hospital and her longest career as a Registered Nurse was at the Macon Community Hospital before her retirement in 2013, with a health care career spanning fifty-three years.
She had the total confidence of doctors under whom she worked and late Dr.’s Petty and Green, encouraged her to go to medical school at their expense, that she rejected because she would have to leave home.
Surviving is a sister, Janie Sircy Croslin of Lebanon and a brother, Herbert Sircy and wife Carolyn Martin Sircy of the Russell Hill Community.
The family has requested memorials to St. Jude in Memphis.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
