Area Obituaries

Mrs. Janice Agee Anderson, of Carthage, was pronounced deceased at 3:30 p.m. Monday afternoon, August 8, 2022, at the Quality Center for Rehab and Healing in Lebanon. Her minister, Edward L. Anderson, officiated at the 1 p.m. Friday afternoon, August 12th, funeral services from the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Burial followed in the…

Longtime Smith County resident, Clyde Ray, passed away on August 9, 2022 at the age of 84, in Smyrna. Clyde Allen Ray was born January 5, 1938 in Lancaster to Wirt and Bonnie Betty Ray. He was the youngest of his six siblings. He graduated from Gordonsville High School in Gordonsville in May 1956. He…

Mrs. Mary Nell McCall Hight, age 91, entered into the joys of her Lord’s presence at 11:55 a.m., Sunday morning, August 7, 2022, at the Pavilion Senior Living Center in South Carthage, where she had made her home since September 18, 2015.  Mrs. Hight is at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Funeral services…

Tanglewood community resident, Mrs. Sarah Hackett Huffines, passed away peacefully at 8:03 a.m. Friday morning, August 5, 2022, at the Riverview Regional Medical Center in Carthage where she was admitted July 15th, following a period of declining health. At the age of 99, she was ten weeks shy of her 100th birthday. Her pastor, Bro.…

Ms. Kim Papagna, a licensed Practical Nurse of Baxter, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Cookeville Regional Medical Center at 6:15 a.m. Monday morning, August 1, 2022, after suffering a fatal heart attack at her Mother’s Dyer Ridge Road home. Ms. Papagna was 60. Bro. Lanny Thomas officiated at the 11 a.m. Thursday morning,…

Tanglewood community resident, Mr. Joey Garmon, died on Thursday afternoon, August 4, 2022, at his Sunny View Lane home. He was pronounced deceased at the Riverview Regional Medical Center at the age of 66. Funeral services were conducted by Eld. Beau Beechboard and Bro. Ross Brawner from the Goodson Chapel Methodist Church in Summer Shade,…

Mr. Billy M. Shoulders, age 90, a farmer of the Cato community, died at 11:40 p.m. Saturday evening, July 30, 2022, at the Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin where he was admitted earlier that day from Riverview Regional Medical Center in Carthage. Mr. Shoulders was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where…

At 85 years of age, Mrs. Irene Gentry, a homemaker of Madison, died at 10:22 p.m. Thursday evening, August 4, 2022, at the Alive Hospice Residence in Nashville. Funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home were conducted by Bro. Steve Waller at 1 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, August 9th. Burial followed in…

Mr. Jeffrey Craig, of Carthage, died at the age of 65 at 3:25 p.m. Monday afternoon, August 1, 2022, at the Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin where he was admitted July 9th, being treated for cancer. Mr. Craig was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home and was cremated at the Cumberland Family…

Mr. Bobby Hawkins, age 69, of Gordonsville went to be with his Lord and Savior at his Pig Branch Road hilltop farm at 12:20 a.m. Monday morning, July 25, 2022, with his wife and children by his side. Mr. Hawkins had fought and endured a battle with lung cancer, with which he was diagnosed on…