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11/25/17 — James Boyd “JB” Carter
James Boyd “JB” Carter was born on October 19, 1931 in Waverly, TN, the
son of the late Roy and Nellie Warden Carter. He was promoted to glory
on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2017 in Vanderbilt Hospital in
Nashville, TN, with his family at his side. He was met in heaven by his
parents, three brothers, Wayne, Franklin, and Bill Carter; one sister,
Bettie Jean Burd; and one grandchild, Jeremy Wayne Trail….it was a grand
reunion. He is survived by his wife, Nell Katherine Wannamaker Carter;
four children and their spouses, Donald and Janet Carter, Randal and
Nancy Carter, Glenda and Joel Trail, and Kathy and Rick Greenwood; eight
grandchildren; eleven great-grandchildren; one sister, Patty Perryman and
her husband, Don; nephews, Jimmy and Darlene Burd, Keith and Teresa
Perryman, and Cathy and Kevin Petticoles.
Boyd was a graduate of Waverly Central High School in Waverly, TN. Upon
graduation, he moved to Detroit, MI, where he married Nell Wannamaker
July 2, 1950, and they celebrated 67 years together. Boyd was a graduate
of a four-year apprenticeship machinist program at Wolverine Tube in
Detroit, MI, where he worked for a number of years. In 1965, he moved
his family to Manchester, TN, where he was employed by AEDC for over 28
years, and retired in 1993. He was a 50-year member of the Machinist
Union. His hobbies included farming and wood working, but his greatest
love was his wife and family. Nothing pleased him more than to have
thirty or more people crowd into his home for fun, food and fellowship.
He was a member of Tullahoma Assembly of God and a devoted Christian.
The services were held at Coffee County Funeral Chapel on Saturday,
November 25, 2017 at 2:00 PM, with his sons, Donald and James Randal
Carter officiating. The burial was at Rose Hill Memorial Gardens and was
lead by his nephew, Jimmy Burd.
Coffee County Funeral Chapel is honored to serve the Carter family.
11/26/17 — Sammy William Thompson
Funeral services for Mr. Sammy William Thompson, age 50, of Manchester, TN will be conducted at 1:00 PM on Sunday, November 26, 2017, at Manchester Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Concord Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5:00 PM until 9:00 PM on Saturday, November 25, 2017, at the funeral home. Sammy passed away on Tuesday, November 21, 2017, at Unity Medical Center in Manchester, TN.
Sammy was born in Manchester, the son of Ray and Dale Thompson. He was a former crew foreman at the Manchester Water Department. Sammy was a big family man with a big heart. He was very outgoing and had a huge sense of humor. Sammy was called “Papa” by everyone, and was a very loving husband, father, grandfather, son, and brother.
In addition to his parents, Sammy is survived by his loving wife, Sylvia Thompson; three sons, Steven (Amber) Trail, Chris (Sarah) Sherrill, and Jamison Metcalf; four daughters, Tasha (Pamela Jacobs) Thompson, Jennifer (Aften Craven) Lowery, Kayla (Daniel) Gilliam, Alesha (Justin Sullivan) Thompson; one brother, Johnny Walker; two sisters, Ruby Todd and Vickie (Joe) Elledge; one brother-in-law, Hugh (Amy) Sherrill; fifteen grandchildren; and multiple nieces, nephews, and other family members.
Manchester Funeral Home is honored to serve The Thompson family.
11/28/17 — Eddie Glenn Arp
Funeral services for Mr. Eddie Glenn Arp, age 55, of Cowan, TN will be conducted at 2:00 PM on Tuesday, November 28, 2017, at Manchester Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Bethel Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 11:00 AM until the service time at 2. Eddie passed away on Wednesday, November 22, 2017, at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, TN.
Eddie was born in Cleveland, OH the son of Paul and Rose Arp. He was in the construction business. Eddie loved being outside in nature. He was a huge TN Vols fan, loved hunting, camping and playing pool. He was a fun loving and easy-going guy who loved to make people laugh.
Eddie is preceded in death by his mother, Rose Arp; and brother, Michael Arp. He is survived by his father, Paul Arp; three brothers, Paul Arp, Jr., Ronnie Arp, Daniel (Trish) Arp; two sisters, Angie Henson and Wanda Arp; and multiple nieces, nephews, and other family members.
Manchester Funeral Home is honored to serve The Arp family.
11/26/17 — Lorraine Coop Williams
Williams, Lorraine Coop, passed this life on Thursday, November
23rd, 2017 at Raintree Manor in McMinnville at the age of 89. Mrs.
Williams was born in Lynchburg to the late Paul and Minnie Burt Coop.
During her life she worked as the Guidance Office Secretary at Tullahoma
High School and was a charter member of Highland Baptist Church in
Tullahoma. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Williams was preceded in
death by her husband, Charles Henry Williams; one brother, James Paul
Coop; and one sister, Mary Jo Jackson and her husband Leonard. She is
survived by her daughters, Sara Steelman and her husband Bruce of
Woodbury and Nancy Gilbert and her husband John of Bon Aqua; one sister,
Bobbie Sue Welch and her husband Jack of Decherd; three grandchildren,
Charles Steelman and his wife Kayla, Paul Steelman, and Ashton Guerrero
and her husband Raphael; two great grandchildren, Josephine and Gus; and
numerous nieces and nephews. Visitation will be held on Saturday,
November 25th, 2017 at Kilgore Funeral Home from 5:00-8:00pm. Funeral
services will be held on Sunday, November 26th, 2017 at 1:00pm at Turkey
Creek United Methodist Church in Moore County with Bro. Sidney Gibson
officiating. Burial will follow at Turkey Creek United Methodist
Cemetery.
Kilgore Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
11/27/17 — Dorothy Nell Adams Arnold
Mrs. Dorothy Nell Adams Arnold age 75 of Manchester, TN, died Wednesday,
November 22, 2017, at The Residence @ Alive Hospice in Murfreesboro, TN. She
was born November 14, 1942, in Carnesville, Georgia, was a retired office
manager for Medical Center of Manchester, and a member of Trinity Baptist
Church. She was preceded in death by her parents Hampton Allison and Annie
Pendergrass Adams, her husband Donald N. Arnold, Sr., and her sisters.
Survivors include her sons Neil Arnold, Manchester, TN, and Christopher
Arnold and partner Tom Ray, Smyrna, TN, sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law
Janice (Henry) Freeman, Faye Winn, and Larry (Marilyn) Arnold. Several
nieces, nephews, family members and friends also survive.
A graveside service and entombment will be held 2:00 P.M. Monday, November
27, 2017, at Rose Hill Memorial Gardens Mausoleum. Dr. Kerry Walker will
officiate. The Arnold Family will receive friends Monday from 10:00 A.M.
until 1:00 P.M. at the parlors of McMinnville Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Alive Hospice, 1629
Williams Dr., Murfreesboro, TN 37129.
McMinnville Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements
11/24/17 — Birthdays
Birthdays:
Sylvia Thomas — Pizza Winner!
Food Lion Birthday Cake Winner:
CJ Pritchett, 3
Flowers by Michael Anniversary Winner:
Johnny & Kim Fults, 11
11/23/17 — Birthdays
Birthdays:
Paul Lowrey — Pizza Winner!
Lady Raider Basketball to Play in Woodbury Tournament on Saturday
CHS Lady Raider basketball coach Joe Pat Cope talks to his team during a timeout.
The Lady Raider basketball team opens play on Saturday in the annual Mitch Wilson State Farm Classic in Woodbury. Coffee County was set to play on Friday afternoon but that game was cancelled on Wednesday. On Saturday morning, the Lady Raiders will square off against Smyrna in a 9 AM contest at Cannon County High School.
Thunder Radio will keep you updated on the Lady Raiders’ game on Saturday’s Coffee Coaches Show. The Raiders and Lady Raiders return to action on Tuesday when they travel to Fayetteville High School for a 6 PM doubleheader. Thunder Radio will be on hand to bring you the broadcast of Tuesday’s game. We will begin our live coverage with the Powers Storage Pregame Show at 5:50.
Lineup For Saturday’s Coffee Coaches Show
Coming up on Saturday’s Coffee Coaches Show, we will have a full slate of guests. We will talk to Kyle Harris, the athletic director for Coffee County Middle School, about the new privately funded, multi-purpose sports facility that has been approved for the CCMS sports teams.
(You can see a story about that building at: http://www.thunder1320.com/news/indoor-practice-facility-approved-for-coffee-co-middle-school/ )
We will also talk to Coffee County Central High School wrestling coach Roger Barlow as the wrestling team opened their season this week. Coach Barlow will talk about the new faces in the program and give us a season preview.
And we will also talk to Coach Lana Ray, the coach for the CHS and CCMS swimming teams. She will be joined by assistant coach Mike Ray as they talk about the upcoming season. The Raider swimmers opened the season earlier this month.
The Coffee Coaches Show is broadcast live each Saturday morning from the showroom of Al White Ford/Lincoln at 10 AM. The Coffee Coaches Show is heard exclusively here on Thunder Radio.
Preds Top Canadiens in Shootout to Complete Perfect Home Stand
Filip Forsberg
Filip Forsberg scored twice and Pekka Rinne was perfect in the shootout as the Nashville Predators defeated the Montreal Canadiens by a 3-2 final on Wednesday night at Bridgestone Arena. The win gives Nashville a perfect 3-0-0 home stand and victories in eight of their last nine outings, enough for 16 points in the standings over that span.
Facing an opponent that had lost four straight coming in and had played the night before, the Preds were expecting a better effort from themselves, but ultimately still found a way to collect two more points.
“I don’t think we were particularly smooth with execution with what we were trying to do; some of that could have been us, I think some of it had to do with them,” Nashville Head Coach Peter Laviolette said. “We’ve played in some games where there’s been a lot of room and a lot of space, and we were able to execute and have it look a little better, but tonight, it just wasn’t that game. This was the game that was dealt to us, so I give our guys a lot of credit for staying in and playing that game.”
After Montreal struck first in the game’s opening period, Forsberg evened the score on the power play, potting his 10th of the season with just 1.5 seconds remaining in the first stanza. The goal extended Forsberg’s point streak to six games with three goals and eight points during the stretch.
A scoreless second period led to another power-play tally, again from Forsberg, for a 2-1 advantage that held until Joe Morrow tied with game with less than a minute left in regulation time. After the teams traded chances in overtime, Kyle Turris was the only skater to find twine in the shootout to give Nashville the win.
“I feel like we’ve been getting a lot of results, even if sometimes after the game, we feel like we could’ve played better,” Rinne said. “So that’s a good sign of a team. You know, everyone’s demanding a lot from each other and asking a lot so that’s good. I like that.”
“We haven’t played our best hockey yet,” defenseman P.K. Subban said. “That’s the exciting thing about our team is that we haven’t played our best hockey game yet, and we still have guys who are coming back into the fold who have been out for a while and trying to get their feet under them. But our leadership group has done a really good job of setting the tone and making sure that we do all the right things to be competitive every night”
Rinne Wall:
The Predators streak of scoring at least four goals in five consecutive games came to an end on Wednesday night, in turn allowing the spotlight to shine a little brighter on the man between the pipes.
Steady as ever, goaltender Pekka Rinne collected his 12th win of the season by turning aside 27 saves through 65 minutes of time, and then denied all three Canadiens he faced in the shootout. Plus, the veteran netminder showed a side of his game that is rarely seen with some heightened involvement in a scrum in his crease by shoving Brendan Gallagher aside and then mixing it up with Karl Alzner.
But in true Rinne fashion, the Finn revealed afterward whatever anger was directed at his opponents quickly dissipated.
“I said sorry afterwards,” Rinne smiled, recalling his run-in with Gallagher.
“I think [to still win a game like this is] the sign of a good team,” the goaltender continued. “Everybody is expecting a lot from each other. I really like that as a player. Another good penalty kill effort to start the game, and we got it going a little bit better after that. But still a little bit of ups and downs. We thought about that game a lot. That’s a desperate team, but anyway, that’s obviously still a big two points.”
And as is the case with regularity, Rinne was there to make the clutch save when needed to give Nashville a boost on the bench and two more points in the column. But that’s just another night on the ice for Rinne, whether he gets the accolades or not.
“He was outstanding tonight,” Laviolette said of Rinne. “He played great right at the beginning. He had a huge save, backdoor, on the 5-on-3. Really from that point he gave us an opportunity to win and get under it once we killed those penalties – get ourselves a lead and try to build on that. Even through the course of the game, there were still some big saves he had to make, and he probably saved his best for last in the shootout.”
Notes:
Nashville has earned at least one point in 11 of its last 12 meetings with Montreal dating back to Nov. 14, 2009.
The Preds have now scored a power-play goal in all 10 of their home games this season, which is the second-longest streak in team history in the category. Nashville’s franchise record for consecutive home games with a power-play goal is 11 and was set from Nov. 16-Dec. 26, 2006.
The Predators will now head out for their annual Fathers Trip with players bringing their dads along for the next two games, Friday at St. Louis and Sunday at Carolina.
Pete Weber’s Post Game Report