Mr. James “Roger” Kelly, age 58 of Manchester passed away Friday, December 4 2015 at Unity Medical Center in Manchester, Tennessee. Funeral services are schedule for Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 2:00 PM at Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home Chapel, with burial at Rose Hill Memorial Gardens. Visitation is Monday, December 7th from 5:00 to 8:00 PM at Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home.
A native of Corbin, Kentucky, he was of the Baptist Faith. He like to cook, fish and loved the water, fast cars and animals. Roger was very musical and a proud truck driver. He was “the strong one of the family and life of the party”.
Roger was preceded in death by his father James Arthur Kelly and one nephew, Ricky Wayne Aldridge. He is survived by his son Ricky James Kelly of Tullahoma; his mother Wilma Newton of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee; two sisters, Diane Kelly of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee and Brenda Aldridge and husband Wayne of Memphis, Tennessee; nieces Jackie Hill of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee and Rhonda Stus of Memphis, Tennessee; 5 great nieces and nephews and 1 great great niece and special family member, Carolyn Crawford of Tullahoma, Tennessee.
Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.