Area Obituaries

Mrs. Sandra (Sudie) Thackxton of Gordonsville died at 10:25 a.m. Friday morning July 7, 2023 at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville where she was airlifted by Life flight following a single vehicle accident near the 255 Mile Marker in the East bound lane of I-40 which injured her husband and sister. The accident…

Mr. Sam Stephens died peacefully at his Gordonsville home with his wife at his bedside on Thursday morning July 6, 2013 at the age of 84. He was under the loving care of Caris Hospice of Cookeville and pronounced deceased at 7:27 a.m. A Celebration of Life memorial service will be on Saturday afternoon July…

Sue Goode Arnold of Locust Grove, Georgia and a former Carthage resident died at the age of 85 on Thursday June 29, 2023 at The Palms At Lake Spivey Assisted Living in Jonesboro in Clayton County, Georgia. Graveside services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning July 12, 2023 in the Garden of The…

Mr. Jimmy Ray Turner, age 89, of Alexandria, TN passed away on Friday, June 30, 2023, at Alive Hospice in Murfreesboro, TN. Mr. Turner was born August 5, 1933, in Woodbury, TN, a son of the late Howard Brown Turner and Pearl Ford Turner. He graduated Liberty High School in 1954 and married Margaret Lynn…

Mrs. Mary Riczko, age 81, of Maggart, TN, passed away on Sunday, July 2, 2023. Mrs. Riczko was born May 5, 1942 in Złoczew, Łomża Voivodeship, Poland a daughter of the late Marian Kuśmirak and Zofia Jabloniska Kuśmirak. Mrs. Riczko is survived by Husband; Bela Riczko of Maggart, TN. Special Daughter; Ann Ristow-Wood and husband…

Mrs. Sarah Hackett Thomas age 60, a homemaker of the Russell Hill Community, was pronounced deceased by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston at the family’s Sircy Ridge Lane farm home at 1:03 a.m. Monday morning June 26, 2023 following a long battle with breast cancer with which she was originally diagnosed in 2008.  Mrs. Thomas was…

Retired Vietnam veteran and Tennessee State Trooper, Mr. Lawrence Morris of Carthage, died with his family at his bedside at 4:10 a.m. Tuesday morning June 27, 2023 at the age of 74. He was pronounced deceased at 6:02 a.m. by Gentiva Hospice of Livingston who had been assisting the family with his care in his…

Mr. Phillip Baker of Gordonsville died peacefully at the Lebanon Center for Rehabilitation and Healing in Lebanon on Tuesday morning June 27, 2023 at 8:04 a.m. where he was admitted May 19th being treated for aspiration pneumonia. Mr. Baker was 55. His brother-in-law, Bro. Donny Payne, officiated at the 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon July 1st…

Mrs. Margaret Lynn Foutch Turner age 86, of Alexandria, TN, passed away Monday June 26, 2023 at Alive Hospice in Murfreesboro, TN. Mrs. Turner was born July 8,1936 in Alexandria, TN, daughter of the late Alva Jennings Foutch and Lillie Mai Vandergriff Foutch. She graduated Liberty High School in 1954 and married Jimmy Ray Turner…

Mrs. Vicki Virginia Crawford Maynard, age 68 of Carthage, TN, passed away on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. Vicki was born April 23, 1955 in Carthage, TN, at the Petty-Green Clinic, the daughter of the late John Marlin Crawford and Onie Lee Sevier Crawford. She was also preceded in death by Son; Cameron Lane Wilkerson, two…