Charlene Whitley Shipes
Date of Death – February 12, 2020
Charlene Whitley Shipes, 68 of Henning, transitioned at West Tennessee Health Care in Dyersburg on February 12, 2020.
Visitation will take place on Friday Feb. 21 at Palmer Funeral Home in Mason from 1-7 p.m. and the family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. Homegoing services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at Greater Fredonia M.B. Church in Mason with burial in First Baptist Cemetery in Keeling.
She leaves her husband, Forrest Henry Shipes; stepchildren Henrietta Richardson and DeAvian (Michael) Grauel; siblings Mary Hodge, Arthur (Sandra) Hall, CJ “Wolf” Whitley, Saul (Vicky) Whitley, Pastor Robert (Carol) Whitley, Paul and Pauline Whitley, Gloria Whitley and Anthony Clark. Charlene assisted in rearing her granddaughter, Nedra Millet and Joshua Bates, and had six additional grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, aunts, uncles, a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
