Stories from Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Friends, family, and community rallied around 5-year-old Ayden Orr at LifeSong Church on Friday, April 28, to celebrate both his birthday and the arrival of his service dog, Kadi. Ayden has been diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy, which requires constant monitoring to avoid seizures. Before a seizure, his breathing stops. After his last event, doctors prescribed a seizure dog to monitor Ayden...

The reappraisal year has brought some challenges as well as some surprises to Marshall County. The Marshall County Assessor of Property office has been busy over the last several days trying to answer questions generated by the reappraisal notices sent out by the state last week...

Chapel Hill area native Jeremy Darrell Tomlin, 22, died in an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crash in Maryland during a training mission April 17, 2017. An article about the accident ran in the April 21 edition. The Tomlins reached out to the Tribune to share a note of thanks:...

Marshall County received some good news out of Nashville on Friday. The House of Representatives approved next year’s state budget, and with it, a deal that would preserve the Inn at Henry Horton State Park. Representative Rick Tillis notified the Tribune of the good news on Friday after the session...

Families, friends and concerned citizens will participate in one or more local cemetery decoration events in preparation for Memorial Day. Check out the list below to find out when to meet. • Beechwood Cemetery in Cornersville; Sunday, May 14, 2017. Volunteers will be at the entrance beginning Friday afternoon, May 12, 2017, and will continue through Sunday, May 14, 2017, to collect donations for the upkeep of the cemetery...

By Tom Purcell Every now and then, I come across items in the news that make me worry about the future of our country. Here’s one such item: CNNMoney reports that Americans are paying hundreds of dollars for dirty jeans. According to Nordstrom, a nutty retailer that sells such jeans, they “embody rugged, Americana workwear that’s seen some hard-working action with a crackled, caked-on muddy coating that shows you’re not afraid to get down and dirty.”...

Last time they were in charge, Democrats created the dumpster fire we know as Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, which is nothing more than a failed wealth redistribution experiment. Historians will look back at the Obama years and note the rise of Democrat Party lemmings who threw themselves off the Obamacare Cliff in a fit of melodramatic sanctimoniousness. ...

From the tracks of Lynnville, Tennessee located on the banks of Robertson Fork Creek, we bid thee a warm salutation. “Happy Mother’s Day” to all on Sunday, May 14, 2017. Decoration Day will be observed at the Lynnwood Cemetery on Sunday May 14, 2017...

DEAR ABBY: My fiancee has a death wish. She recently lost her youngest child to suicide. She’s in a lot of pain and rarely has a good day. She suffers from PTSD and relives the scene daily in her mind. She’s a hard worker, so that helps to keep her mind off things. She lives in an empty house with nothing there but farm animals, which she says do help to make her happy...

Betty Jean Orr, 84, passed away Monday morning, May 8, 2017, after a brief illness. She was a lifetime resident of Marshall County. Betty Orr was a pioneer in the newspaper business. She worked at the Marshall Gazette, starting when she was 18. She worked for Jim McCord, who later became Governor of the State of Tennessee. When the Hawkins’ family bought the Gazette, it became the Marshall Gazette/Lewisburg Tribune, and Betty continued her career in the newspaper business. She was proofreader, teacher, mentor and a life coach to many that came through the doors. She used to say, “Just about everybody in Marshall County had worked for the Tribune for at least 5-10 minutes,” and she was just about right. Betty was born in Culleoka, July 9,1932, and attended school in Mooresville and finished her high school education at Marshall County High School. She was a cheerleader and that carried on throughout her life. She cheered her friends on throughout their lives. She made every day a pleasure to go to work. She never met a stranger, she was friends with governors, senators, representatives, and vice presidents. She exemplified the meaning of a true friend. She accomplished many things professionally that she probably felt was not a big deal, but everyone knew different. She was a past Director of the TN Press Association, Associate Editor of the Lewisburg Tribune and then she was named Editor of the Lewisburg Tribune. She never really wanted to be editor, but she was qualified and had the qualities of editor long before she was named as such. She could tell you the proper way to word a sentence, the correct spelling for many words that would otherwise require a dictionary. To the community as a whole, Betty was the face of the newspaper. From pictures, to obituaries, weddings, birth announcements, and stories, Betty could write and make you feel like you were there and a part of it. Betty is preceded in death by her husband, Gerald Orr of Lewisburg; her parents, George Wesley and Callie Mae Wilkes both of Lewisburg; and her brother, Charles William Wilkes of Deland, Florida. She is survived by her first cousin, Faye McConnell London of Lewisburg; first cousin, Janice Bond of Goodlettsville, TN; as well as cousins, Yvonne Grass of Arlington, TX and Ramona Kreinke of Roseville, MN. She is also survived by her niece, Kathryn Wilkes of Lake Helen, FL; and her two nephews, Charles William Wilkes, Jr. of Ormond Beach, FL, and Randolph Wesley Wilkes of Franklin, TN. Visitation will be at London Funeral Home Friday, May 12, 2017, from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. The funeral service will be Saturday, May 13, 2017, at 11 a.m., followed by internment at Bryant Cemetery in Mooresville. London Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Carl Timothy Hambrick, age 56 of Lewisburg died Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at his home. Mr. Hambrick was a native of Dayton, OH, and the son of the late Wilburn Hambrick and Lorraine Davis Hambrick of Lewisburg. He was a self employed handyman and member of the Belfast Baptist Church. In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by a brother, William Hambrick. He is survived by his mother, Lorraine Davis Hambrick of Lewisburg; two sisters, Chrystal Meeks and Angela Martinez of Lewisburg; and brother, Floyd Hambrick of Mossy Head, FL. Mr. Hambrick will be cremated and the family plans to hold a memorial service at a later date. London Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

Wednesday, May 10 Baseball District 9A at Forrest Forrest vs. Eagleville, 5 p.m. (Championship) Softball District 9A Forrest vs, Huntland, 5 p.m. (Winner’s bracket) Moore County vs. Community, 7:30 (Loser’s bracket) District 11A at Mt. Pleasant Cornersville vs. Columbia Academy, 7 p.m. (Winner’s bracket)

Forrest (20-10-1) picked up win number 20 on the season and it was a big one as the top-seeded Rockets erased an early deficit and then hung for a 5-4 win over Eagleville in a District 9A Tournament winner’s bracket contest at Chapel Hill Monday night. Jordan Jent saved the day for the Rockets, coming to the mound for a struggling Ethan Mealer in the fifth inning. Jent earned his second save of the season, pitching the final 2.1 innings and the senior also knocked in the eventual go-ahead run with an RBI single in the bottom of the fifth inning.

The Marshall County Tigers had the unenviable task of having to beat a surging Page squad for the third time this season to move on to the winner’s bracket of the 12AA District Tournament. After starting off the season 1-11, including a pair of losses to the Tigers, the Patriots entered the tournament winners of seven of its last nine games before tacking on one more with a 12-6 win over Marshall County (13-13) on Saturday.

For six innings on Sunday afternoon, the Marshall County Tigerettes outplayed Spring Hill in the opening round of the District 12AA Tournament. Unfortunately for the Tigerettes, the one inning they lost was a frame in which the Raiders batted around in the lineup and put a mind boggling nine runs on the board in the bottom of the fourth to win the contest 9-4 and knock Marshall County down to the loser’s bracket on Tuesday night. "Well we had, I believe, four errors (in the fourth inning)," MCHS coach Heather Denton pointed out. "And when we do not catch the ball or we do not make a play, then they are going to score and they got hits after that, so errors is what led to the loss."

After a two-day washout, the Forrest Rockets finally took the field at Chapel Hill in the District 9A Tournament opener on Saturday and the offense came alive, exploding in a 13-1, five-inning run-rule win over Huntland. Forrest assistant coach Andy Burkett notched his first varsity win because the Rockets played the game without head coach Bart Joyce, who was absent tending to his newborn son Tucker Lee Joyce.

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