Stories from Monday, December 23, 2019

Timothy Johnson, 48, resident of Lewisburg, died on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019, at Maury Regional Medical Center. Funeral services for Mr. Johnson will be conducted on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019, at 10 a.m. at Bills-McGaugh & Hamilton Funeral Home with Pastor Herbert Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Lone Oak Cemetery. The family will visit with friends on Monday, December 23, 2019, from 4 – 8 p.m. at Bills-McGaugh & Hamilton Funeral Home...

Mrs. Bobbye Lou Adcock, 82, of Lewisburg, died Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, at her residence. She was a native of Marshall County, the daughter of the late Lawson Landis and Louise Beard McDaniel. She was a retired Credit Manager for Faber Castell and was a member of the Church St. Church of Christ...

Barbara Ann Cunningham Morgan, of Lewisburg, passed away Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, at NHC Lewisburg. She was born Jan. 14, 1933, in Memphis, TN, and was the daughter of the late Doak Laurence Cunningham and Laverne Summers Cunningham. She graduated from Nicholas Blackwell High School in Bartlett, TN. After receiving her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the UT Center for Health Sciences in Memphis in 1955, she moved to Lewisburg and worked at Gordon’s Hospital...

Forrest senior cheerleader Hannah Gray will have the opportunity of a lifetime as one of more than 800 high school cheerleaders from across the United States who will be representing Varsity Spirit in the world famous London New Year’s Day Parade. Gray and her family moved to Chapel Hill from Queens, NYC in January, 2012. Gray, who has been an All-American twice and competed in the Nations at Orlando all four years in high school, has been cheering since fifth grade and now is in her eighth year of cheering at Forrest.

I’ve seen the sacrifices of war, the uncertainty, trepidation, loneliness, and longing for a loved one to return home from battle and felt the bitter pain of losing a hero soldier. My father served in United States Navy in World War II, my two eldest brothers served in the Vietnam War at the same time, and my third brother served in the US Navy aboard the USS Nimitz supercarrier that left port in Norfolk, VA on January 2, 1989 and did not return to land until June 30 after an attempt to free the hostages in Iran.