Area Obituaries

Defeated Creek Community resident Mr. Billy Spivey died at the age of 83 at the Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital at 9:18 p.m. Wednesday evening January 13, 2021 where he was admitted December 21st of 2020. Mr. Spivey was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral home. He was cremated at the Cumberland Family Services in…

Mary Etta Denton Ballinger, age 95, of Nashville, Tennessee passed away on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. Mary was born February 2, 1925. She married Richard Dewey Ballinger on Valentines Day 1943.He passed in 2000. Raised in Carthage Tn. Daughter of Josh and Ethel Denton. Mary retired from the downtown Cain Sloan. She had a large…

Mr. R.J. Bennett, age 95, of Charlotte, TN, passed away on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. Mr. Bennett was born February 24, 1925 in Lancaster, TN, a son of the late Reece Bennett and Ella Bennett. He was also preceded in death by Wife; Ruby Pauline Burton Bennett, Son; Randall Dale Bennett, Sr, Son-in-Law; Kerry Pennington…

Mrs. Sabrina Grisham, age 50, of recently Knoxville, TN and longtime resident of Carthage, TN, passed away on Friday, January 8th, 2021. Mrs. Grisham was born May 9th, 1970 in Oak Ridge, TN and was a graduate of Clinton High School in Clinton, TN. She was a master barber and graduated from the Boro Barber…

Helen “Tony” Baker, age 87, of Alexandria, TN, passed away Monday, January 11, 2021 at Smith County Health and Rehab in Carthage, TN. Tony was born April 9, 1933 in Sykes, TN, a daughter of the late Ollie Lee Wills and Beulah Granstaff Wills. She was also preceded in death by brothers; C.D. Wills and…

Mrs. Sue Huffines McCombe, age 79 of Lebanon, died Saturday morning January 9, at Vanderbilt Wilson in Lebanon. She is survived by: 2 sons, Jimmy Huffines and wife Kathy of Temperance Hall, William Isabell and wife Merridee of Coopertown; sister, Lavona Dalton of Gallatin, 2 granddaughters, Shannan Turnbow and husband Shane of Shelbyville, Amanda Huffines…

Eld. Dorothy Davis, a homemaker of South Carthage and an ordained Elder of the Emmanuel Church of Christ, died at the Riverview Regional Medical Center at 10:45 p.m. Friday evening, January 8, 2021, where she was admitted earlier that day suffering from kidney failure. Mrs. Davis was 73. Her grandsons officiated at the 1 p.m.…

Brother John Haggard Norman, Jr., age 74 years young, of Tullahoma, passed away on Wednesday, December 30th, 2020 at his home with his family by his side.    Bro. John was born October 22, 1946 in Shelbyville, Tennessee, the son of the late John H. Norman, Sr. and Ruby Anderson Norman. In his youth he…

Ms. Geneva Gentry, of Carthage, died at 12:43 a.m. Thursday morning January 7, 2021 at the age of 88 at the Quality Center for Rehabilitation and Healing in Lebanon where she had made her home since June 22, 2016. Mrs. Gentry was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Private graveside services for the family…

  AD Key passed away on January 2, 2021 at age 82. The Funeral Service, conducted by Brother Darrin Reynolds, is Thursday, January 7, 2021 in the chapel of Sellars Funeral Home, Lebanon TN, and will be followed by interment in Fairview Cemetery. The family will be receiving friends at the funeral home on Wednesday…