STUDENTS BACK TO SCHOOL FOR REAL
STUDENTS BACK TO SCHOOL FOR REAL After an extended layoff students are back to school this week in-person. With COVID-19 numbers increasing, some school board members wanted to begin the school year with remote learning; however two motions which would have delayed in-person attendance in two separate special called meetings ended in deadlock four-to-four votes…
Read MoreObit – Phillip Anderson
Macon County Funeral Director, Phillip Anderson, died peacefully Friday morning July 31, 2020 at 10:15 a.m. at his Carthage Road farm home with his family at his bedside, following a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. Phillip Wayne Anderson was born on April 20, 1940, in the Anderson Hollow in the Defeated Creek community, the only…
Read MoreObit – Emmett Malone
Mr. Emmett Malone, age 83, of Hickman, passed away on Tuesday, July 28, 2020. Mr. Malone was born November 26, 1936 in Gordonsville, son of the late Cecil Martin Malone and Violet Preston Malone. He was also preceded in death by daughter, Kelli Pitman and sister, Jean Evelyn Grisham. He was a 1954 graduate of…
Read MoreObit – Mary Helen Enoch
Mary Helen Enoch age 80 of Lebanon died Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020 at Quality Healthcare. Born May 20, 1940 in Carthage, she was the daughter of the late Forrest and Ova Thompson Christian and was preceded in death by her husband, Charles David Enoch; grandson, Randy Bennett and a brother, William Christian. Mary Helen is…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Roberta Bellar Litchford
Longtime Rock City Community homemaker, Mrs. Roberta Bellar Litchford, died peacefully on Thursday morning July 30, 2020 at 10:25 a.m. at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Ccarthage at the age of 90 where she had been receiving rehab since July 20th. Bro. Jimmy Gregory and her pastor, Eld. Junior Dickerson, officiated at…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Mark Gibbs
Mr. Mark Gibbs of South Carthage died at the age of 56 at 8:55 p.m. Wednesday evening July 29, 2020 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage. He was pronounced deceased at 11:08 p.m. by Kindred Hospice. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon August 3rd at 3 p.m. from the Carthage Chapel…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Jimmy “Woody” Woodard
Mr. Jimmy “Woody” Woodard age 72 of the Nixon Hollow in the Defeated Creek Community died at 12:28 p.m. Saturday afternoon August 1, 2020 at the Kindred Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where he had been a resident since first being admitted May 3, 2018, again for therapy on October 23, 2019 and the…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Imo Dixon
Kempville Community homemaker Mrs. Imo Dixon died peacefully at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage at the age of 80 at 3:35 a.m. Sunday morning August 2, 2020. She had been cared for there since June 30th. Funeral services were conducted by her pastor Bro. Brian Bratcher and her nephew Bro. Steve…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Sherry Malone Bowman
Mrs. Sherry Malone Bowman of Carthage died at 11:30 a.m. at the home of Martha Sanders in South Carthage where she had made her home for three years suffering from dementia.. Mrs. Bowman was under the care of HighPoint Hospice in Gallatin and pronounced deceased at 12:39 p.m. Mrs. Bowman was 80. Bro. Jimmy Gregory…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Dick Bennett
Mr. Dick Bennett, age 82, of Lebanon died at the Quality Center for Rehab and Healing in Lebanon at 12:10 p.m. Sunday afternoon August 2, 2020 suffering from dementia. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon August 4th by Bro. Shayne Smith from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed beside his first wife…
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