Area Obituaries

Mrs. Margaret Bellar Nixon, a homemaker of Hermitage passed peacefully at 11:28 a.m. Sunday morning April 21, 2024 with her daughter at her bedside at the family’s Tyler Drive home in Hermitage. She was pronounced deceased at 12:43 p.m. by Alive Hospice of Nashville. Mrs. Nixon was 90 years of age. Mrs. Nixon was at…

Ted Medley age 87 of Florida, and a native of Lancaster, TN, passed away on April 25, 2024. Ted was born in Silver Point, Tennessee, on March 19, 1937. His parents were Stanton and Jodie Medley. At an early age, his parents began to instill in him the values of religion, candor, commitment, competency, moral…

A Pea Ridge Community homemaker, Mrs. Jeanie Harris Brown, transitioned into the Arms of the Angels surrounded by her family on Sunday morning April 21, 2024 at 7 a.m. The 70 year old Mrs. Brown was pronounced deceased at 8:52 a.m. by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston who had been lovingly assisting the Brown family with…

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…