Area Obituaries

Mrs. Mary Lou Smith, age 84 of Carthage, died at 5:56 p.m. Tuesday evening, July 25, 2023 at the Riverview Regional Medical Center with her family at her side. Funeral services were conducted on Friday morning, July 28th, from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home with Bro. Harold Halliburton and Eld. Joey Gregory officiating. …

Mr. Fred “Butch” Brockette of Lebanon died peacefully at his home surrounded by his family on Monday July 24, 2023 at the age of 77 at 7:24 a.m. under the care of hospice. Funeral services were conducted on Thursday afternoon July 27th from the Immanuel Baptist Church in Lebanon. Officiating the 1 p.m. services were…

Mrs. Jo Frances Harris Agnew, a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and aunt, age 91 of Carthage, passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 23, 2023. Mrs. Agnew, lovingly known as Ma to many people, was born Jo Frances Harris on December 20, 1931 on Beech Log Road in Norene, Tennessee to Archie Lee and Winnie…

Mr. Paul Ray Collins, age 78, of Lebanon, TN, passed away on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Mr. Collins was born April 18, 1945 in the Crawford Community of Overton County, TN, a son of the late J.D. Collins and Dorothy Lee Vaughn Collins. He married Shirley Estelle McKinney on January 14, 1972. Mr. Collins graduated…

Mrs. Helen Fay Ezell, age 77, of Lancaster, TN, passed away on Friday, July 28, 2023. Mrs. Ezell was born December 11, 1945, a daughter of the late Herlon “Smiley” Glover and Virginia Smith Glover. She was preceded in death by infant son; Kevin Herd and by brother; Bobby Glover. Helen is survived by her…

Mrs. Joy Dillehay Wright age 94 of the Rome Community was pronounced deceased at the Lebanon Highway home of her daughter and son-in-law, Petey and Hugh Glover Jr., at 12:49 p.m. Sunday afternoon July 16, 2023 by Gentiva Hospice of Cookeville.  Mrs. Wright was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home where her services…

Mrs. Carolyn Young Denney of Lebanon and a longtime resident of the Pea Ridge Community died at 10:44 p.m. Thursday evening July 20, 2023 at the NHC on South Walnut Street in Cookeville at the age of 81 following a period of declining health. She had been a resident of NHC since June 7th. Funeral…

Reba Faye Preston Bellar was born into this world on February 17, 1931 in Gordonsville,  Tennessee to the late David Preston and Dora Mae Cowan Preston. On July 12, 2023, the angels carried Reba to her New Eternal Home at the age of ninety-two years, four months, and twenty-five days.  Friends described Reba as “a…

If any person ever exemplified integrity, honesty, and respect in Smith County, those characteristics were what described the life of Eld. Charles Allen Gentry. Bro. Gentry passed from his earthly life to eternity surrounded by his family at the home of his daughter Julie at 5:26 a.m. on Thursday morning July 13, 2023 following months…

Mr. Jimmy Watson of the Tanglewood Community was pronounced deceased at 5:01a.m. Saturday morning July 15, 2023 at the Sumner Regional Medical Center in Gallatin under the care of HighPoint Hospice and death came two days after his 84th birthday.  Funeral services from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home were conducted Tuesday morning July…