Area Obituaries

Longtime Riddleton Community resident and Vietnam Era Veteran, Mrs. Mildred Bradley Yeast, now a homemaker of Lebanon, died at the age of 91 with her family at her bedside at 1:08 a.m. Tuesday morning February 21, 2023 at the family’s Whispering Oak home. The Yeast family had been assisted in Mrs. Yeast final days of…

Mr. Eddie Shoulders age 65, a farmer of the of the Pleasant Shade Community, was pronounced deceased at 8:32 p.m. Saturday evening February 25, 2023 at the Riverview Regional Medical Center E.R. in Carthage after becoming gravely ill at the family’s Little Creek Road home. Funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home…

Mrs. Suellen “Susie” Highers Bogle age 77 of Spring Hill, Tennessee died peacefully at the AHC (American Health Communities) Senior Living Center in Mount Juliet on Wednesday morning February 22, 2023 at 5:10 a.m. She had made her home there since October 27, 2021. The pastor of her church, Bro. Richard Smith, officiated at the…

Mr. Jeremiah Barnes of South Carthage was pronounced dead at 11:23 a.m. Wednesday morning February 22, 2023 shortly after arrival at the Riverview Regional Medical Center E.R. in Carthage suffering from cardiac arrest. He was discovered unresponsive at his Old Lebanon Road home by his wife who had phoned from work and received no answer.…

Mrs. Linda Baker, a homemaker of the Boulton Bend Community, died with her family at her bedside Sunday morning February 26, 2023 under the loving care of HighPoint Hospice. She was pronounced deceased at 5:03 a.m. at the age of 77 at the Baker family farm home on Boulton Bend Lane.  Graveside services and interment…

Mr. Joseph Leon of the Granville Community died at 12:37 a.m. Sunday morning February 19, 2023 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where he had made his home since December 27, 2022. Mr. Leon, a native of New York, was cremated at the Cumberland Family Services and the family will retain…

Mr. Odell Robinson, age 94 of Gordonsville, TN, passed away on Friday, February 24, 2023. Mr. Robinson was born September 27, 1928 in Temperance Hall, TN, a son of the late Will Bart Robinson and Lucy Smith Robinson. He married Wilma Smith Robinson on October 14, 1949 and she preceded him in death on July…

Mrs. Sherry Beth Birge White, age 72, of Brush Creek, TN and formerly of Madisonville, TN, went to be with her Lord and Savior on February 22, 2023. Mrs. White was born in Sweetwater, TN on July 8, 1950, a daughter of the late Claude Thomas Birge and Lillie Elizabeth Proffitt Birge. She was preceded…

Mrs. Rhoda Kelley, age 85, a homemaker of the Popes Hill community, entered into her eternal reward at 8:45 A.M. Wednesday morning, February 15, 2023, at the Quality Center for Rehabilitation and Healing in Lebanon where she was convalescing from chronic respiratory failure. Mrs. Kelley was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where…

A 70 year old Carthage resident, Mr. Ronnie Ray, died at 7:53 p.m. Wednesday evening, February 15, 2023, at the Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin where he was admitted February 7th, suffering from the effects of Covid. Eld. Anthony Dixon officiated at the 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon, February 19th, funeral services from the Carthage…