Obit – Mrs. Sarah Vance Halbert
Mrs. Sarah Vance Halbert age 87, a homemaker of the Taylorsville Community in Wilson County, died peacefully at 7:12 p.m. Friday evening May 3, 2024 at the Alive Hospice in Murfreesboro. Funeral services from the Ligon and Bobo Funeral Home in Lebanon were conducted Tuesday afternoon May 7th at 1 p.m. with Eld. Jeff Blackwell…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Saxon (Sax) Ridgeway
Mr. Saxon (better known as Sax) Ridgeway died peacefully at 5:15 a.m. Wednesday morning May 1, 2024 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where he had made his home since 2012. Graveside services and interment were held at 10 a.m. Thursday morning May 2nd. Burial followed in the section five at…
Read MoreLegal & Public Notices For The Week Of 05/02/24
STATE OF TENNESSEE PROBATE COURT OF SMITH COUNTY AT CARTHAGE NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF Billy Durell Napier Case#80CH1-2024-PR-2783 Notice is hereby given that on the 17th day of April, 2024, Letters of Testamentary in respect to the estate of Billy Durell Napier, Deceased, who died on the 29th day of January, 2024, were issued to the undersigned by the Probate…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Karen Smithwick Moore
A 67 year old Rome Community housewife, Mrs. Karen Smithwick Moore, died peacefully Thursday morning April 25, 2024 at 9:45 a.m. at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she had been receiving therapy since April 11th. Prior to that she had been a resident of The Pavilion Memory Care unit in…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Ted Balicki Sr.
Mr. Ted Balicki Sr. age 81, a hobby farmer of the Kempville Community, was pronounced deceased at 2:22 p.m. Saturday afternoon April 20, 2024 at the Riverview Regional Medical Center in Carthage where he was admitted April 15th with respiratory problems. Mr. Balicki was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where his family…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Margaret Bellar Nixon
Mrs. Margaret Bellar Nixon, a homemaker of Hermitage passed peacefully at 11:28 a.m. Sunday morning April 21, 2024 with her daughter at her bedside at the family’s Tyler Drive home in Hermitage. She was pronounced deceased at 12:43 p.m. by Alive Hospice of Nashville. Mrs. Nixon was 90 years of age. Mrs. Nixon was at…
Read MoreObit – Col. Ted Medley
Ted Medley age 87 of Florida, and a native of Lancaster, TN, passed away on April 25, 2024. Ted was born in Silver Point, Tennessee, on March 19, 1937. His parents were Stanton and Jodie Medley. At an early age, his parents began to instill in him the values of religion, candor, commitment, competency, moral…
Read MoreLegal & Public Notices For The Week Of 04/25/24
NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE WHEREAS,default has occurred in the performance of the covenants, terms, and conditions of a Deed of Trust dated December 22, 2006, executed by DAVID A. SHELMADINE AND BRENDA JOY BRADLEY, to Brent S. Knight, as Trustee for HSBC MORTGAGE SERVICES, INC, its successors and assigns, recorded on January 6, 2007 in…
Read MoreHarold “Slick” Collins Field Dedication
By Shea Haile Courier Sports SOUTH CARTHAGE — The Smith County Little League organization and county mayor Jeff Mason recognized two staples of the county’s youth baseball and softball landscape last Tuesday. The league and Mayor Mason surprised Harold “Slick” Collins and Wanda Collins — dedicating the little league fields to Collins. Fields at the athletic…
Read MoreSchool employee pay hike; School board says yes, commissioners to have say so
By Eddie West Staff Writer An anticipated 10 percent pay increase for all board of education employees has cleared the first in a series of hurdles. The same holds true for a proposal to provide health insurance for non-certified employees of the board of education which has also passed an initial step. During this month’s…
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