Area Obituaries

A Flatrock Community resident known as the “flooring man” has died at the age of 65. Mr. David Mears passed peacefully surrounded by his family at 9 a.m. Monday morning April 15, 2024 at the family farm home. He was pronounced deceased at 10 a.m. by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston who had been lovingly assisting…

Mr. Allen Hempelmann, age 82 of South Carthage was pronounced deceased at the age of 82 at the family’s McCall Street home on Thursday afternoon April 11, 2024 with his wife and daughter at his bedside. Gentiva Hospice of Livingston was assisting the family with his care. Mr. Hempelmann was at the Carthage Chapel of…

Miss Jonnie “Foxy” Martin of Carthage died at 6:02 p.m. Wednesday evening April 17, 2024 at the Lifepoint Health-Sumner Medical Center in Gallatin where she was admitted for treatment on April 6th after experiencing a myocardial infarction. Miss Martin was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. Eld. Junior Dickerson conducted a memorial Celebration…

Mr. Joe Halliburton age 82 of the Defeated Creek Community died with his two sons at his bedside at the Cookeville Regional Medical Center at 7:41 a.m. on Sunday morning April 21, 2024 where he was admitted at 2:40 p.m. Friday afternoon from the Riverview Regional Medical Center E. R. in Carthage suffering from heart…

Mrs. Margaret Speck, a housewife of the Hogans Creek Community, passed from this earthly life to eternity at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday morning April 16, 2024 with her two daughters at her bedside. Her passing was at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where she had made her home since June 13, 2023.…

Miss Carolyn Blair, a homemaker of South Carthage, died at the age of 79 with her sister and friends at her bedside at the Riverview Regional Medical Center in Carthage where she was admitted April 9, 2024 following a fall which fractured her hip at her Davis Street South home. She was pronounced deceased at…

Mrs. Bonnie Montgomery Walker age 68, of Old Hickory, TN passed away on Friday April 19, 2024. Mrs. Walker was born on October 18, 1955 in Lebanon, TN, a daughter of the late Sam Denton Montgomery and Virlah Wilson Bennett Montgomery. She was married to John E. Walker on Nov. 6, 1976 and he passed…

Mrs. Eleanor Petty Myers, a homemaker of South Carthage, transferred into the arms of the angels at her Lester Avenue home on Thursday morning April 11, 2024 with her family present. She was pronounced deceased at 10:30 a.m. by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston who had been assisting the family with her care in her final…

Mr. David Harper, age 58, of the Tanglewood Community was pronounced deceased at 10:12 a.m. Thursday morning April 11, 2024 at the TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville where he was admitted March 26th being treated for multiple organ failure. Mr. Harper was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where his services were…

Carthage native, Mr. Dale Hunt of Lebanon, died March 11, 2024 at the age of 69 at the Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital in Lebanon. Memorial services are scheduled to be held to Celebrate his Life on Saturday morning April 27th at 11 a.m. in the Garden of the Cross at the Smith County Memorial Gardens.…