Obit – Mrs. Pat Donoho Christian
Flatrock Community homemaker and retired nurse, Mrs. Pat Donoho Christian, was pronounced deceased at 3:15 p.m., Sunday afternoon June 30, 2024, one day before her 84th birthday at the Saint Thomas West Hospital in Nashville.
Mrs. Christian had made the decision to donate her body to the Genesis Group in Memphis for an anatomical study and following the study she will be cremated and returned to Sanderson in Carthage.
A memorial Celebration of Life will be conducted on Friday afternoon July 12th at 3 p.m. from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home with Eld. Junior Dickerson officiating. There will be a private interment on the Donoho family plot in the Beasley-Brooks section at the Dixon Springs Cemetery when the cremains are returned to Sanderson.
The Christian family will receive friends at Sanderson in Carthage only on Friday July 12th from 1 p.m. until the Celebration at 3 p.m.
She was one of four children, three daughters and a son, and the oldest child of the late Macon County native, Haley Charles Donoho who died at the age of 72 on February 26, 1991 and Monoville Community native, Myrtle Rose Woodard Donoho who died at the age of 90 on May 25, 2007, and was born Patsy Rose Donoho at the family home in the Monoville Community on July 1, 1940.
She was also preceded in death by a son, Ricky Tisdale who died September 21, 2014 at the age of 56, and by a granddaughter, Holly Kay Tisdale who died April 17, 1979 at the age of 6 months of age.
Her only brother, retired Tennessee State Trooper Charles Louis Donoho, preceded her in death on January 24, 2008 at the age of 66.
On May 16, 1984 in Las Vegas, Nevada, she was united in marriage to Grayson, Kentucky native Thomas J. (T. J.) Christian.
Mrs. Christian was a recipient of her General Education Degree and graduated with a Licensed Practical Nurse Degree from the Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin and was licensed by the State of Tennessee as an L. P. N.
Before her retirement she was formerly employed at both the former Donelson Hospital and at the TriStar Summit Medical Center in Hermitage.
She was also a longtime employee of Dr. Cagle’s OBGYN Clinic in Gallatin.
Saved at the age of 13, she was baptized on August 10, 1953 into the full fellowship of the then, Peyton Creek Missionary Baptist Church in the Monoville Community, by then pastor, the late Eld. R. D. Brooks.
Surviving in addition to her husband of over forty years, T.J. of the Flatrock Community, are her two surviving sons, Gary Tisdale and Tracy Tisdale, both also of the Flatrock Community; two sisters, Dianne Donoho Cart and husband Rick of Nashville and Jean Donoho Hiett and husband Richard of South Carthage; six grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
