MARATHON MATCH
SUBMITTED The Gordonsville High Tigerettes and Smith County High Lady Owls first volleyball encounter of the 2024 season featured a back-and-forth five set classic match. Big Blue captured the first and third sets to take a 2-1 advantage. The Lady Owls continued to fight and rebounded with a 25-17 win in the fourth set. In…
Read MoreLegal & Public Notices For The Week Of 09/19/24
STATE OF TENNESSEE PROBATE COURT OF SMITH COUNTY AT CARTHAGE NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF Charles Ray Gray Case#80CH1-2024-PR-2809 Notice is hereby given that on the 30th day of August, 2024, Letters of Administration in respect to the estate of Charles Ray Gray, Deceased, who died on the 16th day of August, 2024, were issued to the undersigned by the Probate…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Ricky Branham
Mr. Ricky Branham of Carthage died peacefully at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage on Thursday morning August 29, 2024 He was pronounced deceased by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston at 11:45 a.m. at the age of 68. He had been a resident there since May 23, 2019 after suffering a debilitating stroke.…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Hulon Holland
A retired Defeated Creek Community resident, Mr. Hulon Holland, departed this life at 8:55 p.m. Friday evening September 13, 2024 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where he was last admitted July 31st after suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Mr. Holland was 90. He was transferred from Smith County Health…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Rebecca Ann Gregory Butler
Mrs. Rebecca Ann Gregory Butler, 82, of the Rome community, left this earth for her heavenly home on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024. Funeral services were conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon September 15th at 3 p.m. from the Partlow Funeral Chapel on South Cumberland Street in Lebanon. Bro. Floyd Massey officiated. Burial followed beside her…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Donnie Smith
Mr. Donnie Smith age 59 of the Defeated Creek Community was discovered unresponsive at his Lakeside Drive home on Friday afternoon. Donnie was pronounced deceased at 4:40 p.m. September 6, 2024 at the Highpoint Health – Riverview Emergency Room. His former pastor Bro. Tim Miles assisted by Bro. Tim Frank officiated at the Thursday afternoon…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Bea Davis
52-year-old Mrs. Bea Davis, of the McClures Bend Community, was pronounced deceased at 4:44 p.m. Friday afternoon September 13, 2024 from complications following open heart surgery. She was a patient at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville where she was admitted August 31st. Funeral services were conducted from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Ren Coker
Mr. Ren Coker of Cookeville was pronounced deceased at the age of 27 at 9:05 a.m. Sunday morning September 8, 2024 at the Cookeville Regional Medical Center Emergency Room after being discovered unresponsive earlier that morning at his Choate Cemetery Road home. Edward L. Anderson officiated at the 3 p.m. Fridy afternoon September 13th funeral…
Read MoreObit – Retired MSGT. John Bransford “Peck” Smith
Retired MSGT. John Bransford “Peck” Smith, age 86, of Chestnut Mound, TN, passed away September 14, 2024. He was born in Robertson County, Tennessee on May 14, 1938, to Hershel and Hazel Smith. Growing up farming, he learned the value of hard work and the many strong morals and values he would live and teach…
Read MoreROME BRIDGE CLOSURE DELAYED
Due to the forecasted rain, this weekend’s full closure of the Rome Bridge over Round Lick Creek in the Rome community has been rescheduled for next weekend – Friday, Sept. 20 at 6pm until Monday, Sept. 23 at 6am. An announcement was made Wednesday after the Courier was printed.
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