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By The Leader on August 12, 2019

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Funeral homes often submit obituaries as a service to the families they are assisting. However, we will be happy to accept obituaries from family members pending proper verification of the death.

Anne Matthewa “Matty” Bouck

Martha Ann Elam Sturdivant

Jake Miles Akers Sr.

Anne Sue Walton Thornton

Dianne Jones Harris

Andre Pugh

Mark Austill

Rivers was known for his compassion, loving and understanding nature

REVEREND JOHN RIVERS

Mike Cook

Neamon Jackson Curtis

David Brian “BJ” Smith

David Brian “BJ” Smith

Paul E. Sams

Grugett was a fierce independent spirit

“Jo” Grugett

Children are ever greatful for ‘meanest mother in the world’

Sharon Lee Bryan Montgomery

Larry Wayne Harman

Michael Lee Wolfe

Michael Lee Wolfe

Mary Helen Black

Jeffery Harrison Sanford

Shirley Huffman Kennedy

Grugett was a fiercely-independent spirit

“JO” GRUGETT

In memory of William Kemmet Wood

WILLIAM KEMMET WOOD”

Smith was a pioneer in forensic pathology

DR. O’BRIAN CLEARY SMITH

Corky Joel Mullins

Jimmy Ray Gibson

Jeremy Paul Alan Sexton

Gene Mashburn, Sr.

Wayne Lamar Mayfield

Harold “Wayne” Taylor

Harold “Wayne” Taylor

Eubank, co-owner of Eubank’s Grocery in Memphis

ROBBIE MARIE EUBANK

Vickie Denise “Mickey” Dowell

ROBERT WAYNE MCMILLIN

Juanita Lathrop

Gregory Hartzog

Robert Cook

John Alan Densford Sr.

Helen Coulston Wright

Gregory Hartzog

Mazie Mashburn Yarbro Cooper

Benjamin Richard “Dicky” Faulk

Tracy Pruitt

Tracy Pruitt

Cauble was strong, quiet Godly woman

Juanita Ruth “Nita” Cauble

Jan Joseph Vaughan

Kishman was a kind, giving and gracious woman

Virginia SUE “Jenny” Hendrick Kishman

Cary Ray Bucey

Cary Ray Bucey

Earline Dyson Hall

Madelyn Reese Turner

Patricia Liles Headin

Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Bryson

Mariann Ross Cooper

Mariann Ross Cooper

Ronald Baggett

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