Area Obituaries

Mrs. Tonya Tyrell Arnold, age 63 of Hartsville, TN passed away Sunday morning, December 31, 2023 at Hartsville Health and Rehab. Tonya was a Member of Goodwill Missionary Baptist Church where she was saved at an early age. She loved Tennessee football and spending time with her Grandchildren. Tonya loved attending all of the Grandchildren’s…

Mrs. Annie Ruth Givens departed this life at the age of 96 at 10:15 p.m. Saturday evening December 23, 2023. Funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home were conducted Wednesday afternoon December 27th at 1 p.m. with her sons-in-law, Bro. Randy Teat and AL Kent officiating. Burial followed beside her husband of…

Mrs. Diane Bamford age 79 of the Defeated Creek Community was admitted to Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital in Lebanon on Thursday evening after becoming seriously ill at the family’s Nixon Hollow Lane home. She was pronounced deceased at 3:18 p.m. Friday afternoon December 22, 2023. A memorial service from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral…

Mr. Dan McIntire age 68 of the Difficult Community was pronounced dead on arrival at the Riverview Regional Medical Center E. R. in Carthage on Saturday morning December 23, 2023 after being discovered unresponsive by his wife at their Little Salt Lick Creek Road home. Mr. McIntire was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral…

Mr. Billy Richard Hackett, age 76 of Hickman, TN, passed away Saturday December 23, 2023. Mr. Hackett was born March 4, 1947, a son of the late Cordell Hull Hackett and Lorene Williams Hackett. He was also preceded in death by siblings: Edwin Key Hackett, Robert James “Bob” Hackett, Betty Jo Hillis, and Mattie Pearl…

Mr. Jerry Lynn Martin, age 61, of the Popes Hill Community of Smith Co TN, passed away peacefully, on December 22, 2023, at his home from cancer with his family by his side. Jerry was born October 4, 1962, a son of the late William Dawson Martin SR. and the late Birdie Lee Warren Martin.…

Mrs. Mildred Smith Anderson, age 89, of Rome, TN, passed away on Tuesday, December 26, 2023. Mrs. Anderson was born September 24, 1934 in the St. Mary Community of Smith County, TN, a daughter of the late Columbus Benton Smith, Sr., and Allie T. Nabors Smith. She graduated from Gordonsville High School in 1954. Mrs.…

Mrs. Isabella Dawson Smith, age 24 of Knoxville, TN passed away on Sunday, December 24, 2023 at Cookeville Regional Medical Center after Cardiac complications. Mrs. Smith was born February 27, 1999 in Cookeville, TN, a daughter of James Howard “Jimmy” Dawson and Althea Lynn Hogg Dawson. Isabella was a graduate of Cookeville High School and…

John Larry Dudney age 77, passed away peacefully early Wednesday morning, December 27, 2023, at Smith County Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage, TN.  He was born in Carthage, TN, on February 9, 1946. He was the son of the late Robert Lee Dudney and the late Louise Upchurch Dudney.  He was a member of…

Mrs. Teresa Pipes, a homemaker and professional baker of the Elmwood Community, was pronounced deceased shortly after arrival at the age of 71 at 2:58 p.m. Sunday afternoon December 17, 2023 at the Riverview Regional Medical Center E.R. in Carthage after becoming gravely ill at the Pipes family’s Cookeville Highway home. Mrs. Pipes is at…