Area Obituaries

Mr. Roger Mullinax, age 72 of the Graveltown Community, was pronounced deceased at the Highpoint Health – Riverview Emergency Room in Carthage at 8:34 a.m. Wednesday morning September 3rd after being admitted in cardiac arrest with C. P. R. in progress from his Bishop Hollow home.  Public visitation for family and friends was conducted on…

Mrs. Melinda Jean Poole Wood, age 64 of South Carthage, TN passed away Friday August 29, 2025.  Mrs. Wood was born on February 8, 1961 in Carthage, TN, a daughter of the late Sterling Poole and Lorene Dickens Poole. She was also preceded by step-son: Terry Keith Wood; sister, Barbara Clemons and a brother, James…

Mr. Stallie Bush, age 86, of Maggart, TN, passed away on Saturday, September 6, 2025. Mr. Bush was born on February 12, 1939 in the Maggart Community of Smith County, a son of the late Johnnie Elves Bush and Vallie Evergreen Slager Bush. He was also preceded in death by a brother: Johnnie Wilson Bush…

A retired Carthage business lady, Mrs. Cliffodean Beasley Thompson succumbed to a long-term illness with her daughter and son-in-law present at 6:45 a.m. Tuesday morning August 26, 2025 at her Carmack Avenue home. She was pronounced deceased exactly two months before her 100th birthday by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston at 8:09 a.m. Gravesides services were…

Mr. Jimmie Wilkerson age 73 of the Popes Hill Community was pronounced deceased at 3:45 p.m. Saturday afternoon August 16, 2025 at the Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital in Lebanon following an extended illness. Funeral services from the Ligon & Bobo Funeral Home were conducted Thursday afternoon August 21st with Bro. Richard Smith, from Bide Russell…

Gina Hibdon of Lebanon, age 62, passed away August 20th, 2025 at her residence. She is preceded in death by her father, Hermon “Sonny” Pulliam. She is survived by her husband, Tim Hibdon; mother, Eleanor Pulliam; father in law, John (Vickie) Hibdon; mother in law, Linda Stanton; daughters, Jamie (Matthew) Redfern and Jennifer Sircy; sister,…

With family members at her bedside, Mrs. Judy Harris, a homemaker of Carthage, answered the call from her heavenly father to come home at 6:20 p.m. Thursday evening August 14, 2025 at her Horizon Circle home. She was pronounced deceased at 8:13 p.m. by Amedisys Hospice of Murfreesboro at the age of 72. Bro. Gordon…

Mr. Sammy (Sam) Oldham age 84 of Lebanon, died at the Cedar Creek Post Acute Center in Mount Juliet on August 13, 2025. Memorial services were conducted on Friday afternoon August 15th at 2 p.m. from the Lebanon Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Bro. Kevin Medlin officiated and burial was in the Bethlehem Cemetery in the Tuckers…

A well-known and highly regarded Missionary Baptist minister for over fifty-one years, Eld. Leon White, has died at the age of 92 exactly six months to the day following the loss of his wife of twenty-three years, Ruby Webb Wilson White, who died at the age of 95 on February 1, 2025. Eld. White entered…

Mrs. Mary Akers of Dickerson Hollow in the Pleasant Shade Community departed this life at the Highpoint Health – Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin August 9, 2025.  Visitation will be on August 23, 2025 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Chapel Hill United Methodist Church, 92 Beasley Road, Riddleton, Tennessee with memorial…