Stories from Monday, January 14, 2019

Funeral services for Mr. William Maury Grissom, 85, of Petersburg, TN, will be conducted at 1 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, at Higgins Funeral Home with Bro. Tim Forsythe and Bro. Billy Taylor officiating. Burial will follow in Old Orchard Cemetery...

James Michael “The Legend” Cozart, 63, of the Wheel Community, took his final ride to be with his Savior, on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. James passed on from this life at his home surrounded by his family, friends, his buddy “Bobbi” and his horse Chocolate...

Jeffrey “Bubba” Cox, 53, resident of Lewisburg, died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Salt Lake City,UT. He was born on June 14, 1965, in Pulaski, TN. Bubba was a truck driver. He is survived by his loving wife, Laura Cox; mother, Janice Cox, Pulaski, TN; father-in-law, Glenn Stafford, Lewisburg, TN; sons, Jessie Stafford, Seth Cox and Robert Gomez of Lewisburg, TN; daughters, Jessica Gomez and Kellie Gomez of Lewisburg, TN; sister, Cynthia King, Pulaski, TN; brother, Phillip Crowe, Texas; and ten grandchildren. ...

Mr. Lloyd Jones, 83, resident of Lewisburg, died Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, at Maury Regional Medical Center. Born on April 11, 1935, in Johnson City, TN, Lloyd was the son of the late Robert & Lena Britt Jones. He was a retired construction worker. Lloyd served in the United States Air Force...

Cornersville residents will have to pay more attention to where they park. The town’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen passed, on first reading, an ordinance amending existing parking rules in response to resident concerns about driver and pedestrian safety...

Cornersville Mayor Melisa Peters and Town Administrator Scotty Brock present Cornersville High School football coach Gerard Randolph (center) with a copy of the town’s proclamation honoring the team for its accomplishments. The 17 seniors on this year’s team have posted a record of 27 wins and three losses with two state championship game appearances in the last two years...

Belt-tightening was in evidence at the Lewisburg City Council’s work session last Thursday. Two items on the agenda were deferred after Mayor Jim Bingham suggested they be addressed in the spring when the city has a better handle on the current state of their finances...

The academic honors’ dean’s list for the Fall 2018 semester has been announced by Dr. Donna Hedgepath, Campbellsville University’s provost and vice president for academic affairs. Hunter Lee Hancock, a junior from Chapel Hill, Tenn. has been named to Campbellsville University’s Dean’s List for Fall 2018...

Middle Tennesee State University has released the Fall 2018 Dean’s List. To qualify, students must maintain a current semester grade-point average of 3.5 or above and earn at least 12 semester hours. The “Dean’s List” notation applies only to undergraduate students...

TROY, AL--Joseph Boyd of Lewisburg, TN, has been named to the Provost’s List at Troy University for the Fall Semester/Term 2 of the 2018/2019 academic year. The Provost’s List honors full-time undergraduate students who are registered for at least 12 semester hours and who have a grade point average of at least 3.65...

Lewisburg residents will get a chance to help chart the future of their parks system. The city will host the first public meeting for the development of a parks master plan on Tuesday, Jan. 15, starting at 6 p.m. at Greater First Baptist Church on N. 6th Avenue...

Christmas might be in the past now, but one Lewisburg native knows the true meaning of giving. Tracy Edens Brewer is donating a kidney to a member of her church in Marysville, Tenn., where she currently lives. Brewer grew up in Lewisburg, graduating from Marshall County High School in 1989. She is the daughter of Bob Edens of Lewisburg and Carolyn Simmons, formerly from Lewisburg...

Photo submitted The Lewisburg Rotary Club recognized their students of the month for January at their Wednesday meeting. Selected this month are, from left: Jenna Cheatham, Marshall County High School, Shayla Lewey, Cornersville High School, Rotary President Wayne Glenn, and Humberto Lopez, Spot Lowe...

Junior’s House, Inc. would like to give a special thanks to The South Tennessee Oil Company, Inc. for their loyal support in helping child abuse victims in our community. For each of the last three years, The South Tennessee Oil Company, Inc., dba (Shell) Quik Mart Convenience Stores, conducted a fundraising campaign with their customers in their stores for Child Advocacy Centers in the various counties where Quik Mart operates. ...

The Board of Directors of Duck River Electric Membership Corporation (DREMC) today has accepted the retirement request of Michael Watson, President and CEO. Watson will relinquish his duties as CEO and President on Jan. 11; he will serve in an advisory capacity for the cooperative until June 30, 2019...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Jewelry, clothing and other Elvis Presley-related memorabilia have been sold at auction in Tennessee. Elvis Presley Enterprises says the auction at The Guest House Graceland netted more than $600,000 Tuesday on what would have been his 84th birthday. The Guest House is a hotel located steps from the Graceland home, where the singer lived in Memphis...

FLAG POND, Tenn. (AP) — Gov. Bill Haslam has renamed a state park to honor Tennessee’s senior U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander. Haslam announced Monday he had signed an executive order renaming Rocky Fork State Park in Unicoi County as Lamar Alexander Rocky Fork State Park...