HOME RUN KING
Shea Haile Courier Sports The collegiate baseball journey for Joey Parliment included stops at Nashville’s Trevecca Nazarene University and Columbia State College (Columbia, Tennessee). In his final collegiate appearance, the Gordonsville High baseball product and 2019 GHS graduate was crowned the “Trojan Home Run King”. Parliment blasted his 39th career homer, breaking the Trojans baseball program’s…
Read MoreLegal & Public Notices For The Week Of 07/24/25
STATE OF TENNESSEE PROBATE COURT OF SMITH COUNTY AT CARTHAGE NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF Mark Ivy Thompson Case#80CH1-2025-PR-2864 Notice is hereby given that on the 8th day of July, 2025, Letters of Administration in respect to the estate of Mark Ivy Thompson, Deceased, who died on the 11th day of November, 2024, were issued to the undersigned by the Chancery…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Jane “Nana” Martin
Mrs. Jane “Nana” Martin age 77 of South Carthage and a longtime resident of the McClures Bend Community was pronounced deceased at 3:07 p.m. Monday afternoon July 14, 2025 shortly after arrival at the Vanderbilt-Wilson County Hospital E. R. from the Quality Health and Rehabilitation Center in Lebanon where she had resided since March of…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Betty Jean Schafer
Mrs. Betty Jean Schafer of Leesburg, Virginia, passed away peacefully on Monday, July 14th, 2025 at 3:57 p.m. with her daughter Pamela Sieber and granddaughter, Emma Sieber by her side at 90 years of age. Mrs. Schafer arrived at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home on Monday July 21st from Leesburg. Graveside services and…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Terry “Shoate” Reece
Mr. Terry “Shoate” Reece, of the Kempville Community died with his family present at 8:25 a.m. at the age of 66 on Wednesday morning, July 9, 2025 at his Martin Hollow Road home. Mr. Reece was at the Anderson & Son Funeral Home in Red Boiling Springs, TN and was cremated at the Cumberland…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Rosemarie (Rose) Bach
Mrs. Rosemarie (Rose) Bach, a homemaker and farm wife of the Hogans Creek Community, passed away at the age of 82 at 5:18 a.m. Thursday morning July 17, 2025 with C. P. R. in progress. Mrs. Bach was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where the family received friends on Monday afternoon July…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Bill Kemp
Mr. Bill Kemp of Martinez, Georgia passed away at Piedmont Hospital in Augusta, Georgia on his 94th birthday on January 12, 2025. Joint graveside memorial services and inurnment will be held on Saturday afternoon July 26th from the Sanderson Cemetery in the Pleasant Shade Community with Eld. Rickey Hackett officiating. Burial will be in the…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Sue Kemp
Mrs. Sue Kemp of Martinez, Georgia departed her earthly journey in Augusta, Georgia on January 26, 2025, fourteen days following the death of her beloved husband, Pleasant Shade Community native Bill Kemp, who died on January 12, 2025 on his 94th birthday. Joint memorial graveside services are scheduled for Saturday afternoon July 26th at 1…
Read MoreObit – Kate Beasley Porter
Kate Beasley Porter died July 4, 2025, in Oak Ridge, TN. She was born January 16, 1937, to Kitty and William Beasley, on a farm in Dixon Springs, TN. After graduating from Smith County High School in Carthage, TN, in 1955, Kate attended the University of Tennessee, where she majored in Home Economics and was…
Read MoreObit – Angela Davis Wantz
Angie was born September 27, 1963 in Smith County, Tennessee to Bethel and Helen Davis. At a young age, she was adopted by Bessie McKinney. For many years, Angie worked in the Governor’s Office in Nashville, Tennessee. She met Doug Wantz, her future husband, when they were both members of America Online. They developed a…
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