Area Obituaries

Barbara Jean Pigg, 86, of Nashville, TN, passed away Wednesday January 31, 2024. Barbara was born in Nashville, TN on June 25, 1937 to Curtis and Kathleen Sloan. Barbara enjoyed many things especially shopping and traveling. Her home was always open and she enjoyed hosting many family dinners, holiday events and other special occasions. Her…

Many hearts are broken because of the passing of a dear friend, wife, mother and daughter who was a cherished soul and was beloved by so many. Holly Smith White passed quietly at 4:08 p.m. Wednesday afternoon January 24, 2024 with her husband of twenty two years by her bedside and so many other family…

Mr. Mike Shumake age 64 of the Sullivans Bend Community was pronounced deceased at a fire at the family’s Preston Lane home at 12:10 p.m. Tuesday afternoon January 23, 2024. Longtime family friend, Eld. Stephen Farley Brooks, officiated at the 5 p.m. Monday afternoon January 29th memorial services which will be held at the Carthage…

A lifelong Hogans Creek Community resident, Mr. Troy Mofield, was discovered deceased at 2:55 a.m. Wednesday morning January 24, 2024 at his home. He was pronounced dead on arrival at 4:23 a.m. at the Riverview Regional Medical Center in Carthage. Mr. Mofield was 57. Sunday afternoon January 28th funeral services were conducted by Eld. Junior…

Retired Lafayette farmer, Mr. Ralph Phillips, died at the age of 82 at the Knollwood Manor in Lafayette at 9:03 a.m. on Wednesday morning January 24, 2024 following a period of declining health. Funeral services from the Lafayette Chapel of Anderson and Son Funeral Home were conducted on Saturday afternoon January 27th at 1 p.m.…

A Defeated Creek Community resident and longtime resident of the Kempville Community, Mr. Billy Watkins Sr., died peacefully at his Defeated Creek Highway home surrounded by his loving and caring family. He was pronounced deceased by Caris Hospice of Livingston at 7:53 p.m. Wednesday evening January 10, 2024. A funeral service to celebrate Mr. Watkins…

Defeated Creek Community homemaker, Mrs. Bettye Nixon, age 75, was pronounced deceased at 2:02 p.m. Saturday afternoon January 20, 2024 at the Riverview Regional Medical Center in Carthage with her family at her bedside and where she was admitted from the family’s Nixon Hollow farm home on January 15th. Funeral services from the Carthage Chapel…

Lifelong Pleasant Shade Community farmer, Mr. L. B. Thompson, was pronounced deceased at 11:37 p.m. Wednesday evening January 17, 2024 at the Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage where he had made his home since October 19, 2018 due to failing health. Mr. Thompson was 71. Eld. Scott Rigsby, Mr. Thompson’s pastor, officiated…

Mrs. Gayle Lynn Parker, a homemaker of the New Middleton Community, died peacefully at 1:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon January 14, 2024 at the age of 54 at the family’s Dry Fork Road farm with her family by her bedside following a battle with cancer. She was pronounced deceased at 3:15 p.m. by HighPoint Hospice of…

Lebanon native, Mr. Don Rollins, age 75 and now of Jonesborough, Tennessee died at 2:23 a.m. Wednesday morning January 17, 2024 at his son Danny’s home in Jonesborough. Funeral services from the Ligon and Bobo Funeral Home will be conducted by Wayne Hunt at 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon,  January 28th.  The Rollins family will…