Area Obituaries

Smith Bend Community farmer and retired merchant, Mr. Billy White Myers, died at the age of 91 at 9:55 p.m. Friday evening August 30, 2024 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where he was receiving therapy from a fall. Graveside services and interment were scheduled for Wednesday morning September 4th at…

Mr. Raymond Preuitt of Hartsville quietly and confidently transitioned from this earthly life to a walk with his Heavenly Father at 7:55 a.m. Monday morning September 2, 2024 with his loving wife Rita at his bedside. He was pronounced deceased at his Fort Blount Road home at 8:28 a.m. by Gentiva Hospice of Lebanon who…

David Brainerd Shaw of the Kempville Community went to be with his Lord and Savior at 1:30 a.m. Friday morning September 6, 2024, at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where he had been since June 10th. Until then he had been lovingly cared for by his parents at their Gladdice Road…

Mrs. Helen May Bush, age 79, of Mt. Juliet, TN, passed away on Friday, September 6, 2024. Mrs. Bush was born April 30, 1945 in Lafayette, TN, a daughter of the late Vestle Trent and Lillie May Bergdord Trent. She was also preceded in death by Siblings; Jerry Trent, Terry Trent, Ricky Trent, Polly Woodard,…

Mr. James Cecil Bennett, age 82 of Lancaster, TN passed away Saturday September 7, 2024 at Whites Creek Health and Rehab in Whites Creek, TN. Mr. Bennett was born in Lancaster, TN on September 17, 1941 to the late Lewis Vernon Bennett and Willie Mai Sullins Bennett. He was also preceded in death by sister…

A highly respected and beloved Smith County physician has died at the age of 72 following a nearly seventeen-year battle with multiple sclerosis. Dr. Roger Duke age 72 of Lebanon was pronounce deceased at 6:13 a.m. Monday morning August 26, 2024 at the Quality Center for Rehabilitation and Healing in Lebanon where he was admitted…

Master Easton Bush age 2 of the Popes Hill Community succumbed to his injuries in his mother’s arms at the Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville from injuries received in a single car automobile accident which occurred on Sunday evening August 25th in the Whites Bend Community of Jackson County. He was pronounced deceased at 4:39…

Mr. Curtis Hoover Woodard, age 91, of Temperance Hall, TN, passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at Riverview Regional Medical Center, Carthage, TN. He was born November 22, 1932 in Smith County, TN, son of the late Herman Haskel Woodard who died in Lakeland, FL at the age of 86 on April 16, 1977…

Shirley Ann Williams, age 89, (February 11, 1935 – August 26, 2024) passed away on August 26, 2024 at 11:19 PM at Redstone Village in Huntsville, Alabama. She was held in the arms of her family as the Lord called and received her spirit ushering her into her Heavenly home. Shirley was a member of…

On Sunday August 25, 2024, Harry John Seise of Carthage, TN passed away at home at the age of 63. Harry was from St. Louis, Missouri where he attended St. Mary’s Catholic High School. Afterwards, Harry joined the US Navy where he served his country from 1980 to 1984 as Machinist Mate on the USS…