Area Obituaries

Funeral services for Carl Braiden Looper, Age 72, of the Dry Hollow community of Monterey, were conducted on Monday, August 22, 2022, At 11:00 AM from the Chapel Of Goff Funeral Home. Bro. Estel Bilbrey officiated and interment followed in the Harris Chapel Cemetery.  Mr. Looper was born on Tuesday, February 7, 1950, in Monterey…

Mrs. Geraldine Shoulders Gregory, age 98, of Smithville and a longtime resident of the Four-Way-Inn community, died peacefully with her daughter, Brenda, present at the daughter’s Fairdale Lane home in Smithville where Mrs. Shoulders had lived since declining health had overtaken her. Mrs. Gregory was pronounced deceased at 1 p.m. Monday afternoon, August 22, 2022,…

Mrs. Linda Guffey Cunningham, of Carthage, died at 9:12 p.m. Wednesday evening, August 24th, at the Southern Hills Hospital in Nashville where she was admitted earlier that day, suffering from respiratory arrest. Graveside services were conducted on Tuesday morning, August 30th, at 11 a.m. with Eld. Dewey Dyer officiating. Interment followed in the Guffey family…

Mrs. Kathy Langston, of Lebanon, died at her Wheeler Street home in Lebanon on Sunday evening, August 21, 2022, and was pronounced deceased by Avalon Hospice of Lebanon at 6:19 p.m., at the age of 66 Mrs. Langston was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Graveside services were conducted Saturday, August 27th, at…

Ms. Ellen Grenfell, of Murfreesboro, died at the age of 79 at 9:07 p.m. Sunday evening, August 21, 2022, at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she had made her home since March 17, 2022. Mrs. Grenfell was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home.  She was cremated at the…

Carthage resident, Mr. Alfred “Bubba” McCormick, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Riverview Regional Medical Center in Carthage at 1:32 a.m. Monday morning, August 22, 2022, after collapsing at his McGinness Avenue home earlier that morning. He had recently had major shoulder surgery. Mr. McCormick was 62. Memorial services are scheduled to be conducted…

Mr. Terry Keith Wood, age 37, of Elmwood, passed away Sunday, August 21, 2022, at his home in the Pea Ridge community. Keith was born on August 30, 1984 in Lebanon, son of Terry Walter Wood and Betty Alice Gillespie. He graduated from Smith County High School in 2002. He worked in electrical maintenance at…

Graveside service for Mrs. Christine Johnson Smith will be 9:00 A.M. Saturday, September 3, 2022, at Gordonsville Cemetery. Mrs. Smith, age 81, of Lebanon, passed away August 24, 2022, at Quality Care. Born June 26, 1941, in Clay County, She is the daughter of the late Claude and Elsie Lee Hawkins Johnson.  She was a…

Ms. Leah Gillispie Petty, of the Pleasant Shade community, died on Thursday, August 11, 2022, at the Vanderbilt Wilson Hospital in Lebanon.  She was 54. She was cremated and a memorial service was conducted on Saturday morning, August 20th, at the East Carthage Missionary Baptist Church with Eld. Rickey Hall officiating. Born Leah May Gillispie…

Mrs. Bertie Duke Dickerson, age 84, of South Carthage died peacefully at 4:55 p.m. Monday afternoon, August 8, 2022, at the Riverview Regional Medical Center in Carthage where she had been cared for since being admitted August 4th, suffering from kidney failure. Bud Reeder, retired Church of Christ minister, officiated at the 1 p.m. Thursday…