Area Obituaries

Longtime Tuckers Cross Roads Community resident, Ms. Joyce Johnson, made her heavenly transition at 7:36 a.m. Saturday morning April 12, 2025 with her family at her bedside at her Trousdale Ferry Pike home. She was under the care of Alive Hospice of Lebanon. Memorial services will be conducted on Thursday afternoon April 17th at 1…

Mrs. Shannon Baker Bishop of the Boulton Bend Community departed this life into eternity at 5:23 p.m. Thursday evening April 10, 2025 at the Saint Thomas Ascension Hospital Mid-Town where she was admitted March 10th at the age of 53 suffering from sepsis. Graveside services were conducted with her father James Lee Baker, delivering the…

Ms. Karol Stanley of the Smith Bend Community in Jackson County passed peacefully from this life into eternity at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday morning April 8, 2025 with her family at her bedside at their Rarick Lane home. She was pronounced deceased at 2:59 a.m. by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston who had been loving assisting her…

Barry G McCoy, 62, of Jacksonville, Florida passed away at sunset at 7:25 p.m. Tuesday evening March 25, 2025 following an extended illness.  Mr. McCoy arrived from the Nashville International Airport to the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home on Friday April 4th from Jacksonville, Florida. Graveside services were conducted by Eld. Shawn Shepherd on…

Ms Stormie Elaine Woods, age 40, of Carthage, TN, passed away Thursday, April 3, 2025. Stormie was born on July 26, 1984 in Carthage, TN a daughter of the late Lary Lee Woods and Kay Marie Goss Woods who survives. She was a graduate of Smith County High School, a caregiver for her mother, and…

Mrs. Regina Sue Gillihan White, age 72 of Hartsville, TN passed away Sunday morning, March 30, 2025 at Highpoint Health Riverview, Carthage, TN. She was preceded in death by her parents, John Lee & Geraldine Law Gillihan and two sisters, Carolyn Dees and Beverly Odom. Mrs. White is survived by her husband, Don White of…

Mr. Joe Moore age 90 of the Granville Community was pronounced deceased at 10:50 a.m. Monday morning March 24, 2025 at the Quality Center for Rehabilitation and Healing in Lebanon where he was admitted one month earlier on February 24th for therapy.  Mr. Moore is at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Graveside services…

Ms. Debi Williams, a long-time resident of Goodlettsville, passed from this life into eternity at 3:25 p.m. Thursday afternoon, March 27, 2025 at the Pavilion Senior Living under the care of Gentiva Hospice of Livingston whose extraordinary team of professionals had been assisting the Pavilion’s wonderful staff with her care. Funeral services were conducted at…

Mrs. Hazel Gregory age 75, a homemaker of the Tanglewood Community, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Highpoint Health-Riverview Regional Medical Center Emergency Room in Carthage at 12:21 p.m. Saturday afternoon March 22, 2025 after a call for assistance to Smith County E-911 was received at 11:42 a.m. from the family’s Taylor Street home.…

Mr. Derek Myers was discovered unresponsive at his Smith Lane farm home on Thursday morning and was pronounced deceased at 6:32 a.m. March 27, 2025 at the Cookeville Regional Medical Center Emergency Room at the age of 34. Mr. Myers is at the Hackett Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where his funeral services will be…