Area Obituaries

With her loving family at her bedside, Mrs. Gleenda Bradley age 84 of the Difficult Community, made her transition from her earthly walk to her heavenly home at 8:53 p.m. Thursday evening September 25, 2025 at the family’s Dog Branch Road South home. She was pronounced deceased at 11:21 p.m. by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston,…

Mr. Joe Don Starnes of Cages Bend Lane in the Riddleton Community was pronounced deceased at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage at 9:02 a.m. Monday morning September 22, 2025 at the age of 78. He was under the care of Gentiva Hospice of Livingston. Mr. Starnes was at the Carthage Chapel…

Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, and friend, Mary Frances Stewart, a longtime resident of Gordonsville, TN passed away on Thursday, September 25, 2025 at the Riverview Regional Medical Center. Frances is the daughter of the late Armel and Gertie Mae Hamlet. Frances spent her childhood years in the White’s Bend/Flynn’s Lick community of Jackson…

Mr. David Earl Gravley, Sr, age 73, of the Elmwood Community of Smith County passed away on Monday September 22, 2025 at his home surrounded by his family. Mr. Gravley was born in Ft. Lee, Virginia on May 1, 1952, a son of the late Early Eugene Gravley and Dorothy Mae Thomas Gravley who survives.…

Mrs. Paulette Huffines Bishop, age 78 of the Elmwood Community of Smith Co., TN passed away Saturday, September 20, 2025 at St. Thomas West, Nashville, TN. Mrs. Bishop was born in Hartsville, TN to the late Robert and Sally Langford Huffines.  She was Baptist in faith and was saved on July 10, 1983 a member…

Mr. Raymond Allen Smith of the Four-Way-Inn Community died at 7:12 a.m. Monday morning, September 15, 2025 at the Riverview Regional E.R. after becoming ill at his Raymond Allen Lane home. He was 81. Funeral services were conducted on Thursday afternoon September 18th from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home with Eld. Jeff Patterson…

Mr. Johnny Gooch, age 59 of South Carthage, was found unresponsive at his Hickory Hills home and was pronounced deceased at 2:01 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, September 16, 2025 at the Highpoint-Health Riverview Regional E.R. Mr. Gooch was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home.  He will be cremated at Cumberland Family Services in…

Evvy Kayte Ray met our Heavenly Father on Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at the age of 9. Evvy was born July 5, 2016 to Dusty and Amanda Ray. She was diagnosed at 2 years old with BPAN, a neurodegenerative disease. Evvy met every challenge with bravery and resilience. Although she endured more than most could…

Mrs. Julia Ruth Corley, age 89 of Alexandria, TN passed away on Monday, September 15, 2025 in Murfreesboro, TN. Ms. Corley was born on January 18, 1936 in Lebanon, TN to her parents, the late William Leonard & Sarah Ester Hancock. Ms. Corley graduated Lebanon High School and then married Billy Joe Corley in May…