Obit – Mr. Mark Reece
Retired Monoville Community businessman, Mr. Mark Reece of Carthage, was pronounced deceased at 5:19 p.m. Monday afternoon June 10, 2024 at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville while undergoing surgery from injuries received in an automobile accident just west of the Cordell Bridge on Lebanon Highway. He was 70 years of age.
Bro. Tim Frank conducted the 3 p.m., Friday afternoon June 14th funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed in the College Park section at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.
He was one of two children, a son and a daughter, of the late Kempville Funeral Director, Clyde Bratton Reece who died August 30, 1996 at the age of 81 and Reba Gay Hackett Reece who died May 22, 2004 at the age of 79.
Mr. Reece was a 1972 graduate of Smith County High School. There he majored in science, was in the Pep Club all four years, was a member of the Future Farmers of America his freshman and Sophomore year, and the vocational industrial class all four years.
At First Baptist Church Carthage on June 14, 1985, he was united in marriage to Carthage native, the former Kathy Jean Ford. The ceremony was performed by then church pastor, Dr. Jere Plunk.
Mr. Reece was a longtime employee of the Texas Boot Company before establishing Splinters Cabinet Shop in the Monoville Community in 1991. He was a skilled craftsman and woodworker and successfully operated the business until his retirement near the end of 2023.
He loved music, which was constantly playing near wherever he was, coached Little League and Babe Ruth baseball for several years.
He loved old cars, especially Corvettes and Camaro’s, and in reality anything produced by General Motors.
The outdoors was his favorite place to be and he had a love for fishing.
As a youth, he attended with his Mother and Grandmother the former Hickory Grove United Methodist Church in the Kempville Community.
Surviving in addition to his wife Kathy, with whom they would have celebrated thirty nine years of marriage on the day of his funeral, is their son, Brent Reece and wife Courtney Ligon Reece and their two children, Marleigh Mai Reece and Sawyer Ford Reece all of Lebanon; sister, Lana Reece Kinslow and husband Larry of Carthage; sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Judy and Bob DiSalvo of Mount Juliet, and his fur baby whom he was rarely apart from, Andy. He is also survived by ninety three nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great nephews.
The Reece family has requested memorials to the Smith County Humane Society or American Diabetes Association.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
