Obit – Mr. Charles Spivey
Mr. Charles Spivey, age 70 of the Pleasant Sade Community, succumbed to cancer three days following his and Debbie’s forty-seventh wedding anniversary.
He died surrounded by family at the family’s Pleasant Shade Highway home at 3:16 a.m. Friday morning May 16, 2025 and was pronounced deceased at 4:20 a.m. by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston, who had been assisting the family with his care.
Finding it appropriate to remember him biblically of his 3:16 a.m. death, the family chose John 3:16 for his memorial folders. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”.
Funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home were conducted on Monday afternoon May 19th at 1 p.m. with Bro. David Thaxton officiating with Rodger Reed delivering the eulogy. Burial followed in the Garden of Inspiration at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.
Born Billy Charles Spivey in Carthage on April 26, 1955, he was the second of six children, three sons and three daughters born to Mrs. Mable Willodean Hughes Spivey of Carthage and the late Billy Ray Spivey who died at the age of 70 on April 2, 2003.
A sister, Patty (Pat) Carnet Spivey Butts, preceded Mr. Spivey in death on August 16, 2018 at the age of 58.
Mr. Spivey was united in marriage by former Smith County Judge Jack Kittrell at his office on May 13, 1978 to Carthage native, the former Deborah “Debbie” Deniece Silcox.
Mr. Spivey was saved at the age of 69 on February 17, 2025.
His main life calling in his adult life was as an accomplished brick and rock mason, and following his retirement he was employed by the Smith County Solid Waste Department as a convenience site operator from which he retired on April 25, 2017.
Also, for over twenty years he was employed by the Newspaper Printing Corporation as a deliverer of the Nashville Tennessean newspapers in Smith County.
Surviving in addition to his wife Debbie of just over forty-seven years are their three children, Miranda Spivey of Carthage, Jason Spivey and wife Misty of the Pleasant Shade Community, Boyd Silcox and wife Joeann of Carthage; two sisters, Judy Head and husband Richard of Gainesboro, Margie Roberts of Carthage; two brothers, David Spivey and wife Joann of the Riddleton Community, Wayne Spivey and wife Debbie of Carthage; five grandchildren, Marcus and Maddox Silcox, Connor Huff, Amber and Taylin Spivey.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
