Obituary Listing

Eunice Ham Stanley

Eunice Ham Stanley

Jan 2, 2016

Eunice Stanley Late in the evening on January 2, 2016, Eunice Ham Stanley passed away peacefully in her sleep. She was at home, with her daughter, Virginia (Ginger) Stanley England, and son-in-law, Edward Gary England. Eunice was 99 years old. She was married to Rex Lance Stanley for 53 years. Together they had two daughters, Virginia Gay and Linda...

Marjorie Ann Nelson Mcgraw

Marjorie Ann Nelson Mcgraw

Jan 2, 2016

Marjorie Ann Nelson McGraw, 86, of Kimball, TN died Saturday, January 2, 2016 at her home. The daughter of the late Rufus Lafayette and Ellen Mason Nelson, she was an inspector at the Pittsburg Knitting Mill for many years. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Donna Lynn McGraw. She is survived by...

Phyllis Cluck Griffith

Phyllis Cluck Griffith

Dec 20, 2015

Phyllis Griffith Phyllis Cluck Griffith, 76, of South Pittsburg, TN died December 20, in a Nashville hospital. A native of Maryville, TN she was the daughter of the late William Paul and Vera Love French Cluck. Phyllis was a graduate of Everett High School and received her teachers training at Tennessee Wesleyan College and the University of Tennessee. She...

Ronald Sr Griffith

Ronald Sr Griffith

Dec 16, 2015

Ronald Griffith, Sr., 61, of South Pittsburg, TN, died Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at his home. He was a former employee of the Pittsburg Knitting Mill and a member of the Rocky Springs Church of Christ. He was preceded in death by his father, Ralph Griffith and grandparents, Lem & Willie Pearl Smith and Frank & Bertie Griffith. He...

Inez Richardson Killian

Inez Richardson Killian

Dec 13, 2015

Inez Richardson Killian of South Pittsburg, TN, died Sunday, December 13, 2015 at a medical facility in Chattanooga. She was 88. She was born Christine Inez Richardson on April 29, 1927 in Waterloo, Alabama to William Wiley Richardson and Winnie Lee Baugh Richardson. Her family moved to South Pittsburg in 1934. She worked at several knitting mills, was an...

Brenda Earvin Heathington

Brenda Earvin Heathington

Dec 6, 2015

Brenda Earvin Heathington, 68 of Chattanooga, TN died Sunday, December 6, 2015 at her home. The daughter of the late William Lee and Clara Mae Virginia Ware Earvin, she attended Knoxville College and received her B.S. in Education from University of Chattanooga. She taught elementary education in the Hamilton County School System for 27 years. She is survived by...

Bobby Turner

Bobby Turner

Dec 5, 2015

Robert Edward "Bobby" Turner, Sr., 78, of Jasper, TN died Saturday, December 5, 2015 in a Chattanooga hospital. The son of the late Ernest and Louise Ballard Turner, he retired from Campbell Equipment Erectors having worked for many years as a Project Engineer. He was preceded in death by his wife, Carolyn Webb Turner and daughter, Jana Elaine Turner....

Earline Green Ross

Earline Green Ross

Dec 4, 2015

Earline Green Ross, 88, of Jasper, TN died Friday, December 4, 2015 in a Chattanooga healthcare facility. The daughter of the late Robert Preston and Leila Maude Stallings Green, she was a native of York, Alabama. She received her Bachelor's degree from Livingston State Teachers College, her Master's degree from MTSU and her Masters Plus 45 from Tennessee Tech....

Paul Lindsey Gouger Jr

Paul Lindsey Gouger Jr

Dec 3, 2015

Paul Lindsey Gouger, Jr., 68, of Jasper, TN, died Wednesday, December 3, 2015 at his home following an extended illness. He was the son of the late Paul Lindsey and Margaret Coleman Gouger and was a Vietnam Veteran having served with the US Navy. He was preceded in death by his sister, Linda Haggard and two sons, Martin Henderson...

Martha Ann Parker Peden

Martha Ann Parker Peden

Nov 30, 2015

Martha Parker Peden, 72, of South Pittsburg, TN died Monday, November 30, 2015 at her home. The daughter of the late Ben Beene Parker and Mary Lou West Parker, she was of the Baptist faith. She was a 1961 graduate of Marion County High School, where she was a cheerleader, basketball player and was inducted into the school's Hall...

Frank Rogers Thomas

Frank Rogers Thomas

Nov 23, 2015

Frank Rogers Thomas, 59, of Monteagle, TN died on Monday, November 23, 2015 at his home. The youngest son of Robert Reece and Emma Lockert Rogers Thomas, he was born on October 2, 1956 in Chattanooga and grew up in South Pittsburg, TN. Frank attended Richard Hardy Memorial School, the McCallie School and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga....

Marie Mcbee Murray

Marie Mcbee Murray

Nov 19, 2015

Marie McBee Murray, 77, of South Pittsburg, TN died Thursday, November 19, 2015 in a Chattanooga hospital. The daughter of the late Jess Herbert and Lena Cordelia Spence McBee, she was a former clerk at Goodwill Industries and attended the Kimball Tabernacle of Praise. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill Murray, son, Dallas Gene Murray, infant...

J Kenneth 'Dosey' Kelly

J Kenneth 'Dosey' Kelly

Nov 8, 2015

James Kenneth "Dosey" Kelly, 84, of South Pittsburg, died Sunday, November 8, 2015 at his home. The son of the late George Robert and Birdie Johnnie Parker Kelly, he was a US Air Force Veteran of the Korean War and was retired from the Army Corps of Engineers. He was a member of St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church...

Mable L Green

Mable L Green

Nov 6, 2015

Mable Green, 75, of South Pittsburg, TN died Friday, November 6, 2015 at her home. The daughter of the late George Willie Green and Corene Oden Pryor, she was a former employee of Penn-Dixie Cement Company. She became a member of Mt. Bethlehem Baptist Church at an early age and was a longtime custodian and usher. Mable was the...

Estelle Blevins Peoples

Estelle Blevins Peoples

Nov 3, 2015

Melinda Estelle Blevins Peoples, 98, of Kimball, TN died Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at her home. The daughter of the late William Hiram and Millie Edith Beene Blevins, she was a longtime member of First Baptist Church, South Pittsburg where she was active in the Fidelis/Dorcas Sunday School Class. She began her nursing career as a nurse's aide at...

Carolyn Prokipchak Rudolph

Carolyn Prokipchak Rudolph

Oct 29, 2015

Carolyn Katherine Rudolph, 67, of Chattanooga, passed away Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015, at The Bridge at South Pittsburg Nursing Home. Carolyn graduated Magna Cum Laude from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a BSW, Bachelor of Social Work Degree and from Chattanooga State Technical Community College with a ADN, Associate Degree in Nursing (Registered Nurse). She was a...

Elma Durham Thrash

Elma Durham Thrash

Oct 26, 2015

Elma Durham Pellam Thrash, 87, of Albertville, Alabama, died Monday, October 26, 2015. The daughter of the late Charles and Fannie Mae Reeves Durham, she was also preceded in death by two husbands, James Pellam and Dee Thrash; sisters, Roxie Smith, Estelle Smith, Christine Price and Opal Lehr; and brothers, Leonard and Melton Durham. She is survived by her...

Susie Dawson Gourley

Susie Dawson Gourley

Oct 15, 2015

Susie Dawson Gourley, 75, of Jasper, TN died Thursday, October 15, 2015 at her home. The daughter of the late Tilford Homer and Emily Kathryn Norman Dawson, she attended Middle Tennessee State College and worked as an Accounting Clerk for Walmart for many years. She was a member of Jasper First Baptist Church and had served as President of...

Myra Nell Stewart

Myra Nell Stewart

Oct 10, 2015

Mrs. Myra Nell Boyd Stewart, 95, of Jasper, TN, died Saturday, October 10, 2015, in a Chattanooga hospital. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ben F. and Ethel Hoge Boyd; husband, T.C. Stewart and sister, Mary Tom Walker. She was a native of Marion County, a graduate of Marion County High School, had worked as a secretary...

Suzanne Adcock

Suzanne Adcock

Oct 3, 2015

Suzanne Adcock, 74, died Saturday, October 3, 2015, at her home in South Pittsburg following an extended battle with cancer. She was born in Chattanooga on October 18, 1940, but lived her entire life in South Pittsburg. She was the daughter of Harold Waymond and Clarice Inez O'Neal Adcock, and her family roots in Marion County extend back to...