Obit – Mrs. Karen Smithwick Moore

A 67 year old Rome Community housewife, Mrs. Karen Smithwick Moore, died peacefully Thursday morning April 25, 2024 at 9:45 a.m. at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she had been receiving therapy since April 11th.

Prior to that she had been a resident of The Pavilion Memory Care unit in South Carthage suffering from dementia.

Mrs. Moore was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home and had requested to be cremated. That was performed at the Cumberland Family Services in Algood and her cremains will be on her parent’s lot at the Cedar Grove Cemetery in Lebanon. No services are planned at this time.

She was one of two daughters born in Lebanon to the late Thomas R. Smithwick who died at the age of 56 on November 12, 1983 and the late Thelma Louise Harris Smithwick who died at the age of 82 on March 3, 2016.

Her sister, Brenda Smithwick Midgett, died March 19, 2023 at the age of 71.

Mrs. Moore was a 1975 graduate of Lebanon High School and attended Middle Tennessee State University.

She was former co-owner of the Cook-Berry Dental Lab in Memphis and before retirement was an assistant manager of the private Southwind Golf Course in Memphis, which is a course that is on the Professional Golf Association tour and also hosts the Fed-Ex St. Jude Invitational tournament.

On November 15, 1994 she was united in marriage in Lebanon, by the then Clerk Jimmy Carter Martin to Rome Community resident and retired Tennessee State Trooper John Patterson “Johnny” Moore Jr.

Surviving in addition to her husband is an aunt, Dorothy Smith of Hermitage, uncle, Jim Harris of Melbourne, Florida, nephew, Brian Ferrell of Lebanon; five step-children, Amanda Wood and husband Tripp of Charlotte, North Carolina, Melissa Ellis and John Moore III both of Spring City, Tennessee, Sadie Moore of Carthage, and  Jerry Moore and wife Jenny of the Rome Community.

SANDERSON of CARTHAGE