Area Obituaries

Mrs. Dottie James age 75 of Carthage and formerly of the Difficult Community died peacefully at 3:15 a.m. Wednesday morning November 19, 2025 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she was admitted November 3rd suffering a rapid decline in heart failure. Mrs. James was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson…

Mr. Jimmy Kerr White, age 87 of Defeated, TN passed away on Monday November 17, 2025. Mr. White was born July 3, 1938 in the Buffalo Valley community of Putnam County, TN, the first of six children born to the Jim Frank White who died at the age of 87 on November 23, 2005 and…

Former Smith County resident, Ellen Cardwell Gibbs Fletcher, passed away early Tuesday morning October 21, 2025, at River Grove Health and Rehabilitation in Loudon, Tennessee. She is preceded in death by her parents, Henry Freemon Cardwell and Norma Young Cardwell; first husband, Buford Isaac Gibbs in 1974 and second husband, Harry Leon Fletcher in 2011.…

Retired Smith County Administrator of Elections, Mrs. Charlene Bass, passed peacefully Friday morning November 14, 2025 at the family’s Popular Lane West home in the Tanglewood Community with family and friends in her presence and was pronounced deceased at 11:50 a.m. by Sheri Kinney with Gentiva Hospice of Livingston. Graveside services were conducted on Sunday…

Mrs. Wanda Gortney of the Defeated Creek Community passed peacefully from her earthly journey at 4:49 a.m. Saturday morning November 8, 2025 at the Highpoint Health – Riverview Medical Center in Carthage with her family at her bedside. She was admitted October 29th battling pancreatic cancer and had been fighting the disease for almost nine…

A lifelong South Carthage resident, Mr. Bill Satterfield, died at 11:52 a.m. Saturday morning November 8, 2025 surrounded by his family at the age of 75 at the Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital in Lebanon where he was admitted at 7:15 a.m. that morning suffering from cancer. He was pronounced deceased at 12:21 a.m. Mr. Satterfield…

Mr. Julius Russell Davis, age 65 of Hendersonville, Tennessee, passed away peacefully in his home on Wednesday, November 12, 2025. He was born in Carthage, Tennessee on February 18, 1960. He is preceded in death by his parents J.B. and Helen Irene Hamlet Davis, beloved grandparents, aunts and uncles. He is survived by his daughter…

Retired Carthage Automobile Dealership owner, Mr. Sonny Apple and a longtime Carthage resident died at Richand Place in Nashville at 1:40 p.m. Thursday afternoon November 6, 2025 only eleven days before his 85th birthday surrounded by all of his family. Graveside services and interment were conducted Tuesday afternoon November 11th by Bro. Tim Frank from…

A soft spoken, kind hearted, God fearing gentleman, Bro. Larry Butler, transitioned from his earthly life to his heavenly home at the age of 79 at 2 p.m. Friday afternoon November 7, 2025 at his Lebanon Highway home with all of his family surrounding his bed. He was pronounced deceased at 2:15 p.m. by Sheri…

A Christian Lady, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Mrs. Jean Glidwell age 88 of Carthage, went to be with her Lord & Savior on Saturday evening November 1, 2025 at 6:55 p.m. surrounded by her family. She was pronounced deceased at 7:50 p.m. by Heather Lowe, a nurse with Gentiva Hospice of Livingston, who had been…