Stories from Monday, March 11, 2019

Mr. Larry Dale Darnell, 65, of Lewisburg, died Thursday, March 7, 2019, at his residence. Mr. Darnell was a native of Marshall County, the son of the late Howard Cooper and Virginia Lee Brown Darnell. He retired from Securitas at ICP and was formerly employed as a mechanic at Yellow Freight, and was a member of the Hardin’s Chapel Church of Christ...

Mr. Jeremiah Greene Meadows, Jr. (Jerry) of Nashville, passed away March 7, 2019. Born in Brooksville, FL, he was a son of the late Jeremiah Greene Meadows, Sr. and Jessie Rae Lanier Meadows. He was a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University where he served as a class officer and was president of the Baptist Student Union. ...

Dorothy Rhea Wise, 79, of Antioch, died March 6, 2019, at her daughter’s residence in Lewisburg. Ms. Wise was a native of Smith County, the daughter of the late Oakley and Gladys Holmes Knight. She was a manager in retail before retirement and was of the Baptist faith...

Mr. James Harold Gilliam, 68, of Cornersville, died Saturday, March 9, 2019, at his residence. Mr. Gilliam was a native of Grundy County, the son of the late Robert and Clarsie Mae Meeks Gilliam. He was an owner of Punkins Childcare and was a member of the Cornersville First Baptist Church...

Mrs. Betty J. Spry, 74, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, March 8, 2019, at her residence in Lewisburg. A funeral service will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Bills-McGaugh & Hamilton Funeral Home. The family will visit with friends on Monday from 11 a.m. until service time at the funeral home...

Mrs. Mae Sue Vernon, 90, of the Holt’s Corner community, died Sunday, March 10, 2019. Born in Marshall Co., TN, she was the daughter of the late Clarence Chris Ferguson and Elizabeth Pearl Haynes Ferguson. Mrs. Vernon was a retired Social Worker for the State of Tennessee, Department of Children’s Services and was an alumnus of Forrest High School, Class of 1947. ...

Billie Carol Gault, 72, of Petersburg, TN, passed away on Saturday, March 9, 2019 at Donalson Care Center. She was born in Lincoln County, TN on Dec. 25, 1946, to Thomas Earroll & Sybil Bryant Bledsoe. She was a former employee of Cosmolab in Lewisburg and was a member of the Lone Oak church of Christ...