Obit – Mrs. Beverly Dillehay Dennis
Mrs. Beverly Dillehay Dennis age 78 of the Tanglewood Community peacefully entered into eternal rest at 12:54 a.m. Monday morning April 20th at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she had been receiving care since March 12th.
Eld. Stephen Farley Brooks officiated at the 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon April 22nd funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed beside her husband Jimmy in the Dennis family lot in the Garden of Gethsemane at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.
Beverly was the oldest of two daughters and a son born to the late Ottis Cleveland “Bob” Dillehay who died September 21, 2016 at the age of 96 and Reba Lois Donoho Dillehay who died October 27, 1959 at the age of 36 and was born Beverly Joyce Dillehay at the former McFarland Hospital in Lebanon on November 2, 1947.
Her brother, Stanley Royce Dillehay died unexpectedly on his Smith Hollow Lane farm in the Difficult Community at the age of 59 on August 17, 2012 from an apparent heart attack.
She was the widow of Jimmy Ronald Dennis who died July 24, 2024 at the age of 78, lacking one month and seven days celebrating sixty-two years of marriage. They were married August 17, 1963 at the Jackson County Courthouse.
As a child Mrs. Dennis attended the former Canters Chapel Church of Christ and after marriage she attended the South Carthage Missionary Baptist Church with her husband.
Beginning in 1977 she was employed at Smith County Drugs as a clerk with a career that spanned over twenty years.
Surviving are her three sons, Smiley Dennis and wife Jan Winfree Dennis of the Watervale Community, Bobby Dennis and wife Susie Hale Dennis of the Defeated Creek Community, Andy Dennis of the Tanglewood Community; sister, Melanie (Mel) Dillehay Smith of the Difficult Community; six grandchildren, Josh Dennis and wife Whitney of the Riddleton Community, Grace Dennis Hughes and husband Hammer of the Defeated Creek Community, Tyler Dennis and wife Katie of South Carthage, Chase Dennis of the Tanglewood Community, Ethan Dennis of South Carthage, Jayden Dennis of the Watervale Community; eight great-grandchildren.
The Dennis family requests memorials to the Jordan Hackett Foundation.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
