Obit – Mrs. Shannon Baker Bishop

Mrs. Shannon Baker Bishop of the Boulton Bend Community departed this life into eternity at 5:23 p.m. Thursday evening April 10, 2025 at the Saint Thomas Ascension Hospital Mid-Town where she was admitted March 10th at the age of 53 suffering from sepsis.

Graveside services were conducted with her father James Lee Baker, delivering the eulogy on Monday afternoon April 14th at 1 p.m. Burial will followed near her mother in the Garden of Everlasting Life at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.

Mrs. Bishop was born Shannon Nicole Baker at the former Baptist Hospital in Nashville on December 8, 1971and was the only daughter of James Lee Baker of the Boulton Bend Community and the late Nashville native Linda Jo Deaver Baker, who died at the age of 77 on February 26, 2023 at the Baker family farm home.

Mrs. Bishop was a 1989 graduate of Hunters Lane High School in Nashville.

She graduated from the Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin with an Associates Degree in Business Administration.

On September 23, 2009 she was united in marriage to Kokomo, Indiana native John Douglas Bishop. The wedding was performed by Smith County Clerk Cliffa Norris.

Mrs. Bishop was an experienced floral creator having been employed by Flower Express in Nashville where she was a designer and secretary.

She was saved at the age of 14 at a tent revival in Nashville and was of the Missionary Baptist faith.

Surviving in addition to her husband of fifteen-years and her father James are two children, Logan Christopher Anthony Joseph Whitehead of the Riddleton Community, Jordan Elizabeth Whitehead and son Silas and fiancée Chris of the Boulton Bend Community; step-daughter, Stormi Bishop of Portland, Tennessee.

SANDERSON of CARTHAGE