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Raider Football Coach Injured In Friday Crash
Emergency crews work to free Horn from wreckage… Photo by Barry West
After Horn was rescued from the truck he was transported with injuries by Coffee County EMS to Medical Center of Manchester and was later transferred to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville. He is set to have surgery on Monday.
Legal Challenge From Death Row Inmates
The Tennessee Supreme Court has agreed to hear a legal challenge over a law allowing the state to electrocute death row prisoners if lethal injection drugs are unavailable.
The challenge is part of a lawsuit filed by 34 death row inmates over Tennessee’s death penalty protocols – both lethal injection and electrocution. The state wants the court to dismiss the challenge to electrocution protocols because none of the inmates are currently scheduled to die by electrocution.
The new electrocution law was meant to jumpstart the state’s stalled execution process, but it opened the door to new legal challenges.
The hearing is scheduled for May 6 in Knoxville.
The high court also is considering whether the state must release the identities of the people who carry out executions.
Tullahoma Citizen’s Police Academy Starting In March
Tullahoma Police Chief Paul Blackwell
Applications for the TCPA are being taken for the session that will begin March 24, 2015 and conclude May 26, 2015. The application and eligibility requirements and other information can be found at www.tullahomatn.gov, or pick up an application packet at the Police Department, 201 W. Grundy St.
Once the applications have been received, a total of eighteen (18) participants will be selected to attend. The participants will be notified by mail of their acceptance.
Upon notification, the participants will be required to submit a thirty dollar ($30) registration fee to cover materials. The TCPA will be held on Tuesday evenings for the ten week period from 5:30 pm to approximately 8:30 pm. The program will consist of a total of forty-four (44) hours of instruction and a participant must attend thirty-six (36) hours in order to graduate.
Completion of the TCPA does not certify participants as law enforcement officers. The purpose and intent of the TCPA is to provide residents with an opportunity to gain insight and knowledge as too the operations of the local law enforcement agency. Any questions about the TCPA can be directed to Chief Paul Blackwell at (931) 455-0530 or pblackwell@tullahomatn.gov.
Gilda’s Club Being Formed In Tullahoma
Cancer’s effects can stretch far beyond the physical, emotional and psychological problems the disease can have and it is not limited to the individual facing the diagnosis.
These are facts that Tullahoma resident Julia Logan-Mayes and her family know all too well.
After finding solace, guidance and support in connecting with other cancer patients and their families during her husband’s battle with the disease, Logan-Mayes has dedicated herself to providing that network of caring and understanding to people in the Tullahoma area.
Logan-Mayes and her husband, Stephen Logan, were raising their family in San Francisco in 1999 when Stephen was diagnosed with a grade four brain tumor.
Stephen Logan died in May 2001, and Logan-Mayes said the friends she made at Gilda’s Club helped her and her children through their bereavement. Logan-Mayes, who worked as the volunteer coordinator for Hospice of the Highland Rim for seven years, is now working to establish a Gilda’s Club in Tullahoma.
Gilda’s Club is a community organization for people living with cancer, their families and friends. Local chapters provide meeting places where those living with cancer, their families, and friends can join with others to build emotional and social support as a supplement to medical care. Free of charge and nonprofit, Gilda’s Club chapters offer support and networking groups, lectures, workshops and social events in a nonresidential, homelike setting. Gilda’s Club was named in tribute to comic actress and Saturday Night Live star Gilda Radnor who died of ovarian cancer in 1989. It is now known as the Cancer Support Community.
2/17/15 —- Steven V. Womble
Steven V. Womble, age 48 of Lynchburg passed this life on Friday, February 13 at the Lynchburg Nursing Center.
Funeral Services will be held Tuesday, February 17, at 2 PM at the Lynchburg Funeral Home with Rev. Ricky Lee officiating. Burial will follow at Smith’s Chapel Cemetery.
Visitation with the family will be Tuesday, from 12 PM until the service time.
A native of Shelbyville, he was the son of the late Grady Womble and Ava Lee Green Womble of Lynchburg.
He was an EMT and had also worked for Nissan. He attended Lynchburg United Methodist Church. He enjoyed Fishing, Hunting, Coaching Baseball and watching football.
In addition to his father, he is preceded in death by one brother, Tommy Womble.
In addition to his mother, he is survived by his wife, Scotty Womble of Lynchburg; two sons, Steven Austin Womble and Tanner Scott Womble, both of Lynchburg; five brothers, Larry Womble and his wife, Dorothy, Richard Womble, David Womble and his wife, Judy, John Womble and his wife, Margie and Don Womble, all of Lynchburg and one sister, Doreen Gluch and her husband, John of Raus.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested memorial donation be made in Steven’s honor to Vanderbilt Hospital Research Center, Vanderbilt Gift Processing, PMB 407727, 2302 Vanderbilt Place, Nashville, TN 37240.
Lynchburg Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. 
02/13/15
Birthdays:
Steve Parks – Pizza Winner!
Alivia Shasteen – 22, Missy Jones, Alyssa Jones
Weekly Birthday Winner Birthday Cake from Food Lion: Jonathan Statum
No Weekly Anniversary Winners.
2/15/15 —– Jean C. Collins
Mrs. Jean C. Collins, age 90, of Hillsboro passed away February 13, 2015 in her home.
She was born September 2, 1924 in Chattanooga, the daughter of the late Clifford R. Miller and Alma Smith Miller. She was also preceded in death by her husband Drew Collins and her two sisters, Leta Henry of Chattanooga and Mary Brown of Hillsboro.
She is survived by a daughter, Jennifer Myers (Stuart) of Hillsboro and a son Barry Cordell of Nashville; two granddaughters Tara Myers McCamey (Tyler) and Meredith Myers Barnett (Aaron); three great-grandchildren Aubrey Myers McCamey, Julia Camille McCamey and Palmer Stuart Barnett.
She retired from being a buyer at Miller Bros. Department Store in Chattanooga for over 25 years and then became a sales representative for various companies. She will be missed by her loving family, friends, and the church she so loved. She enjoyed reading and most of all her canasta games every week with her buddies, Jane Hamby, Christine Deadman, Jennifer Riddle, and Hope Guffey. She was a member of the Hillsboro First United Methodist Church where she had been active in the United Methodist Women and the Builders Sunday School Class.
She wanted the men in her Sunday school class to be her honorary pall bearers.
Her celebration of life will be conducted at the Hillsboro First United Methodist Church with Pastor Bob Jared officiating and burial following in the Hillsboro United Methodist Cemetery.
Memorials can be made to the Hillsboro United Methodist Women or the Hillsboro United Methodist Youth, P.O. Box 65, Hillsboro, TN 37342.
CENTRAL FUNERAL HOME of Manchester, TN in Charge of Arrangements.
2/16/15 —- Jerry Bart Keele
Jerry Bart Keele, age 64 of Manchester, Tennessee, passed away on February 12, 2015 at the Life Care Center in Tullahoma.
Mr. Keele had served for more than 25 years at the Batesville Casket Company in Manchester and was a United States Army Veteran. Before his accident, he enjoyed hunting, fishing, Nascar racing and showing his personally restored 1934 Ford.
He was preceded in death by his parents, the late Bart Keele and Lola Williams Keele.
Jerry is survived by his son, Jeremy B. Keele of Manchester, TN; brother, Billy Wayne Keele (Nancy) of Manchester, TN; and many other relatives and friends.
Visitation will be on Monday, February 16, 2015 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Central Funeral Home in Manchester, TN.
A Graveside Service will follow on Monday at 2 p.m. at the Rose Hill Memorial Gardens.
CENTRAL FUNERAL HOME in Charge of Arrangements.
VISITATION:
Monday, February 16, 2015 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Central Funeral Home in Manchester, Tennessee
GRAVESIDE SERVICE:
Monday, February 16, 2015 at 2 p.m. at the Rose Hill Memorial Gardens
2/21/15 —– Thomas Russell Northcott
Thomas Russell Northcott, age 69 of Tullahoma, Tennessee passed away, Friday, February 13, 2015.
Services will be held Saturday, February 21 at 3:30 PM at First Baptist Church of Tullahoma with Dr. Clay Ward officiating.
Dr. Northcott was born in Richmond, Indiana, on June 5, 1945, to the late Charles P. and Mary Alice Northcott.
He and his family, sister, Deborah J. Gray of Tullahoma and brother, C. Chris Northcott, moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1950 where he graduated from Broad Ripple High School in 1963 along with his wife-to-be, Nancy Tucker.
He and Nancy graduated from Ball State University in 1967 and were married three weeks later. Nancy taught high school English while Dr. Northcott attended Indiana University School of Dentistry, graduating in 1971. Dr. Northcott served as a captain in the US Army Dental Corps at Ft. McClellan, Alabama, from 1971-1973. In 1976, he completed the oral and maxillofacial surgery specialty program at Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis. After a two year associateship in Salem, Indiana, in 1978 he moved his family to Tullahoma and established his private practice. During his 30-year practice, Dr. Northcott was privileged to treat over 40,000 patients and hold staff privileges at seven area hospitals. He was founder and director of the Middle TN Society for Advanced Dentistry (1992-2008), a nationally recognized study club for area dentists and their staffs primarily for the advancement of implant dentistry. Dr. Northcott retired in 2008.
As a young child, Dr. Northcott recognized that he needed a Savior and that God provided salvation through the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ. Realizing God’s grace solution, Dr. Northcott believed in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. He was persistent throughout his life in his desire to serve and glorify Jesus Christ. He and his family organized and hosted various Bible-study groups over the years. In 2002, he participated in the founding of Pleroma Bible Church in Tullahoma. His son-in-law, Dr. Clay Ward accepted the call to pastor the church, and Dr. Northcott served as chairman of the Board of Deacons until 2013. He co-authored a book, Dying Happy, in which he recounted that even though slowly dying of cancer, he experienced a wonderful increase of peace, contentment, joy, and confidence through his faith in Jesus Christ and his intimate walk with God through knowledge of God’s Word.
He is survived by his wife, Nancy, and four children: Dr. Chris and Melissa (Northcott) Anderson (Olivia, Ethan, & Tucker), Craig and Becky (Reed) Northcott (Katie & Sam), Dr. Clay and Amy (Northcott) Ward (Andrew, Reagan, Jonathan, Hannah, Abigail & Lydia), and Thomas W. and Aubrie (Knowlton) Northcott (Renee, Thomas D., Emma Claire & Evelyn).
In the spirit of “the grass withers, and the flower fades, but the Word of our God stands forever”, Dr. Northcott requested that any memorial donations be made to Pleroma Bible Church, P O Box 1178, Tullahoma, TN 37388 or Disciple Makers Multiplied, P O Box 3570, Harlingen, TX 78550.
DAVES-CULBERSTON FUNERAL HOME IS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS
2/16/15 —– Elizabeth “Betty” Ann Dunn Warner
Funeral services for Elizabeth “Betty” Ann Dunn Warner, age 81, of Tullahoma will be conducted at 11:00 AM, Monday, at St. Paul’s Catholic Church.
Burial will follow in the Rose Hill Memorial Gardens.
A Rosary service will be held from 4:00 till 4:30 PM in the Chapel of Tullahoma Funeral Home.
Visitation with the family will be held from 4:30 till 8:00 PM Sunday evening at Tullahoma Funeral Home.
Mrs. Warner passed away Thursday at Life Care Center in Tullahoma surrounded by family and friends.
She was born in Cullman, AL to the late Thomas and Agnes Berrens Dunn.
In addition to her parents she is also preceded in death by her husband, Thomas A. Warner, brothers, Paul and Herman Dunn and a grandson, Joshua Lyn Moore.
She was a legal secretary and a homemaker and was a member of St. Paul’s Catholic Church.
She is survived by her daughters, Mary Warner Beard, Therese (JR) Moore, brothers, John (Alice) Dunn, Charles (Martha) Dunn, grandchildren, Brandi (Larry) Smith, Sirena (Billy) Bukar, Elizabeth (David) Smith, Rachel Beard, Rebecca Beard and Alyssa Moore, great grandchildren, Kylie Gibbs, Preston Smith, Matthew Smith, Macie Bukar, Shelby Bukar, Anabelle Smith, Sawyer Smith, Wyatt Smith and Kyler Smith.
Tullahoma Funeral Home is honored to serve the family of Mrs. Betty Warner.