Obit – Mrs. Ruby Webb Wilson White
Mrs. Ruby Webb Wilson White age 95, a longtime resident of the Tuckers Cross Roads Community in Wilson County, departed this life at 8:03 p.m. Wednesday evening February 12, 2025, at Quality Center for Health and Rehabilitation in Lebanon. Funeral services were conducted on Monday afternoon February 17th at 1 p.m. with Eld. Junior Dickerson,…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Robbie Albritton Maddux
Mrs. Robbie Albritton Maddux, a homemaker of South Carthage, was pronounced deceased at 1:20 P.m. Wednesday afternoon February 12, 2025 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she had made her home since April 15, 2022. Mrs. Maddux was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home and had requested to…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Elizabeth (Peggy) Fleeman
Mrs. Elizabeth (Peggy) Fleeman age 91, a homemaker of Lafayette, was pronounced deceased at 10:33 p.m. Friday evening, Valentines Day February 14, 2025, with her family at her bedside. She was under the care of Gentiva Hospice of Lebanon. Eld. James Shoulders assisted by Eld. Kenneth Wix officiated the 11 a.m. Tuesday morning February 18th…
Read MoreObit – Mrs. Mary Ruth Askins Anderson
Retired Metro Nashville educator, Mrs. Mary Ruth Askins Anderson, passed from this earthly life to eternity at her Madison home at 10:24 a.m. Sunday morning February 9, 2025 at the age of 89 in the presence of her family. Mrs. Anderson had arranged with the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home to be cremated and…
Read MoreTemporary pause to continue at local mines, company says
By Eddie West Staff Writer More than a year after Nyrstar’s Middle Tennessee Mines were placed on “temporary pause” there’s no indication as to when the company might resume operations, according to company officials. “We have no updates on our Middle Tennessee Mines business. The temporary pause in operations is ongoing until further notice,” was the…
Read MoreCounty’s school system running low on snow days
By Eddie West Staff Writer The school system is running low on what are referred to as “snow days”, due mainly to a cold and icy January. The 2024-2025 school year began in August of last year with 13 built-in “snow days”. One of those “snow days” was used as “Professional Development Day” in November…
Read MoreLegal & Public Notices For The Week Of 02/13/25
STATE OF TENNESSEE PROBATE COURT OF SMITH COUNTY AT CARTHAGE NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF Teresa Ann Ballard Case#80CH1-2025-PR-2841 Notice is hereby given that on the 31st day of January, 2025, Letters of Testamentary in respect to the estate of Teresa Ann Ballard, Deceased, who died on the 30th day of December, 2024, were issued to the undersigned by the Probate…
Read MoreObit – Mr. Garry Graham
Bagdad Community farmer, Mr. Garry Graham, was pronounced deceased at 8:11 a.m. Friday morning February 7, 2025 at the Highpoint Health – Riverview Emergency Room after becoming gravely ill while driving on Salt Lick Road. Edward L. Anderson officiated funeral services Wednesday afternoon February 12th at 1 p.m. at the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral…
Read MoreObit – Dr. Don Baud
A retired educator, Dr. Don Baud of the Cartwright Community, was pronounced deceased at 1:25 a.m. Wednesday morning February 5, 2025 with his wife and daughter at his bedside at the Cookeville Regional Medical Center where he been a patient since January 25th. Mr. Baud was 78 years of age. Dr. Baud was at the…
Read MoreObit – Mr. David Hatch
Mr. David Hatch age 65 of the Bluff Creek Community was discovered unresponsive shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday morning at the family’s Bluff Creek home. He was pronounced deceased at 9:30 a.m. that morning, February 4, 2025, at the Highpoint-Riverview Medical Center Emergency Room. The family made cremation arrangements at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson…
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