Area Obituaries

Mr. Tom Clere, of the Lock Seven community, was pronounced deceased shortly after arrival at the Riverview Regional Medical Center E.R. in Carthage at 2:16 a.m. Thursday morning, February 16, 2023. Mr. Clere was 69. A Mass of Christian Burial will be said at the Saint Peter the Apostle Catholic Church on Upper Ferry Road…

Mr. Herod “Sloopy” Wright Jr., of the Riddleton community, died at the age of 55 at 5:43 p.m. Friday evening, February 10, 2023, at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, following a brief illness. Mr. Wright was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home and was cremated at the Cumberland Family Services in…

Mr. Edward Frizzell, of Tell City, Indiana, went to be with the Lord with his family at his bedside at his Tell City home on Sunday morning, February 12, 2023, at 7:40 a.m.. Mr. Frizzell was 82 years of age.    Funeral services were conducted on Wednesday morning, February 15th, at 11 a.m. from the…

Mrs. Martha Moss Payne, age 82 of Brush Creek community of Smith County, passed away Saturday, February 18, 2023, at Riverview Regional Medical Center in Carthage. Mrs. Payne was born on May 10,1940 in Carthage, a daughter of the late Grady Moss and Johnnie Lee Fletcher Moss. She graduated from Watertown High School in 1958.…

Mrs. Georgia Gentry Wilkerson, age 89, of Gordonsville, passed away on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Mrs. Wilkerson was born October 17, 1933 in Club Springs, a daughter of the late Benjamin Harrison Gentry, Sr. and Katie Arizona Crawford Gentry. She was the last of 14 children, being preceded in death by siblings: John Author Gentry,…

Longtime Sycamore Valley tobacco farmer and carpenter of the Pleasant Shade Community, Mr. Louie Gray West, died at the age of 89 at 5:06 a.m. on Wednesday morning February 8, 2023 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where he was admitted a day earlier suffering from congestive heart failure from St.…

Mr. Pete Ferran age 93 of Cookeville entered into eternal rest with his daughter Marie at his bedside at 3:33 p.m. Wednesday afternoon February 8, 2023 at the Cookeville Regional Medical Center where he was admitted February 3rd. Mr. Ferran was cremated at the Cumberland Family Services in Algood and a private inurnment for the…

Mr. Terry Bly of Lebanon died peacefully at his Trousdale Ferry Pike home surrounded by his family at 10:58 a.m. Friday morning February 10, 2023 under the care of HighPoint Hospice of Gallatin. Mr. Bly was 44 and was suffering from cancer. Mr. Bly was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. He was…

Mr. Chad Edward Pippin, age 43 of Cosby, TN, and a native of Carthage, TN, passed away on Friday, February 3, 2023. Chad was born February 24, 1979 in Carthage, TN, a son of the late Patti Sue Gibbs Huddleston and Eldon Lee Pippin. Chad worked for Townsend Tree Service. He was a very hard…

Mrs. Ollie Jewel Nixon, age 94, of Gordonsville, TN passed away on Monday, February 6, 2023. Mrs. Nixon was born April 5, 1928 in Sykes, TN, a daughter of the late Ollie Lee Wills and Beulah Granstaff Wills. She married Thomas Loyd Nixon on October 23, 1948 and he preceded her in death on July…