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Funeral services for Mr. Larry Wayne Mullican, age 80 of Knoxville, formerly of Hillsboro, will be conducted on Thursday, July 21, 2022, at 1 PM in the Manchester Funeral Home chapel, with Bro. Martin Bowlin officiating. Burial will immediately follow in Rose Hill Memorial Gardens. Visitation with the family will be held on Wednesday, from 5 – 7 PM at the funeral home. Mr. Mullican passed away on Sunday after an extended illness.

Mr. Mullican was born on July 20, 1941, in Hillsboro, TN, to the late Willie Hubert and Georgia Tompkins Mullican. He proudly served his country in the United States Army during the Vietnam war. Mr. Mullican was a member of the Hillsboro Masons, the Coffee County Air Foilers, and a deacon for many years at the Hillsboro First Baptist Church. He enjoyed tending his flower beds and is known as a truly loving and faithful husband and father.

In addition to his parents, Mr. Mullican is preceded in death by his brother, Randy Mullican, sister-in-law, Billie Smith Mullican, and niece, Patty Mullican. He is survived by his loving wife of 58 years, Barbara Daniel Mullican; son David Mullican and his wife, Stephanie; daughter, Jennifer Sparkman and her husband, Michael “Sparky”; grandchildren, David Wayne, Jr., Branden Tyler Mullican, Chasity Nichole Carlton and her husband, Jake, Cooper, Dustin, Matthew, William, Nate, and Zoe McKinney; great grandchildren, Arya, Abigail, and Jaxxon Carlton; several extended family members, and a host of friends.

Manchester Funeral Home is honored to serve the Mullican family.

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Euther M. Chesser of Tullahoma passed this life at his residence on Monday, July 18, 2022 at the age of 97. Funeral Services are scheduled for Friday, July 22, 2022 at 2 PM at Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home with burial to follow at Oakwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 11 AM until the service time.

Mr. Chesser, a native of Lewis County, TN, was the son of the late Alonzo Chesser and the late Dollie Hensley Simmons. Mr. Chesser was a WW II Navy veteran proudly serving his country as a gunner on a liberty ship. He loved talking to people and sharing his experiences during the war. He was an avid reader and loved watching old John Wayne and Audie Murphy western and war movies. He attended the Christ Apostolic Church in Manchester. He was well known for traveling around Tullahoma on his scooter with an American Flag on the back and a basket on the front.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Eunice Swinford Chesser; daughters, Ellen Chesser and Gloria Moarn; brothers, Elvis and Odis Simmons and sister, Jesse Chesser Smith.

Mr. Chesser is survived by sons, Elton Chesser of Tullahoma and Ed Chesser (Deb) of Grapevine, TX; grandchildren, Dena Cole (Vernon) and Erin Evans (Justin), both of Tullahoma and great grandchildren, Trey and Kaitlyn Cole and Jackson, Dallas and Ameliah Evans.

Online condolences may be made at www.davesculbertsonfuneralhome.com.
Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Cecil Ray Powers was born in Summitville, TN on May 22, 1933 and died on July 17, 2022. He was the only son of the late Ida Rayburn Powers and Cecil Powers. He had one sister, Dorothy Gail Powers Cole who died in December 2007. She and her husband, Robert, had one daughter, Anita and two grandchildren.

Ray grew up working at Powers and Banks, his father’s general store in Summitville TN. During his school years music, and especially singing, was his great joy. Without professional training, he started singing in school plays and at school events. His first major role was starring in the life story of Steven Foster. That play started his years of singing at numerous weddings, funerals, churches, and a weekly Sunday afternoon radio program that featured popular music of the day. His baritone voice also landed him a part time radio announcer job during his high school years.

Ray later graduated first in his class from the Tennessee School of Broadcasting in Nashville and was awarded a job at Huntsville, Alabama’s largest AM-FM radio station. In April of 1953, after more than two years working at the radio station, Ray volunteered for three years of active duty with the United States Army during the Korean Conflict. Following four months of rigorous basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, he received his five days of leave, which included travel time, to visit parents and report to Fort Lewis, Washington for overseas duty. Everyone on board the ship assumed they were headed for Korea; however, because the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed on July 27,1953, the ship docked in Yokohama, Japan. He was assigned to the 564th transportation intelligence unit at the Far East Headquarters in Zama, Japan. He received an honorable discharge in February,1956 with the rank of E5 Specialist. In April 1961, he received an honorable discharge from rescue standby.

When Ray returned to TN, he needed a job close to home. Clyde Phillips, a dear family friend, knew that Mr. John Rann, a successful jeweler in Tullahoma, wanted to open a store in Manchester. The year was 1956. Ray was recommended and hired with Carter-Rann Jewelers who opened a store in downtown Manchester. Mr. Rann retired in 1958 and sold the store, on credit, to Ray and his new bride, the former Sara Frances Gold.

Ray first saw his bride-to-be while singing the Lord’s Prayer at the close of a wedding at the First United Methodist Church in Manchester in 1956. It was November 9th,1957 when the tall, Alabama southern belle, with bright red hair and sparkling blue eyes, became his bride. Their marriage lasted almost 65 years and was blessed with two special daughters, Rita Frances and Linda Kaye and one very special grandson, Matthew Brian.

Ray was an avid writer, winning many awards for the three star letters he wrote to the editor at The Tennessean in Nashville. For a number of years, he also wrote a weekly column in The Manchester Times entitled Silver Linings. His other hobby was cooking southern foods. Ray served on the Manchester Planning Commission and the Manchester Housing Authority. He was a former Lions Club member, a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion. He was baptized at the age of 12 and was a faithful, lifelong member of the Methodist Church.

Mr. Powers will receive services with military honors on Friday, July 22, at 12:00 p.m. at Manchester City Cemetery with a graveside service to follow with Reverend Randy Brown officiating and musical selections by Jamie Harden.

In lieu of flowers and food, memorial donations may be made to a charity of your choice.

Central Funeral Home is honored to serve the Powers family, 931-723-7774, centralfuneralhome.com

DICKSON, Jack Dunlap, Jr., Lt. Col. (Ret.), U.S. Army, passed away in Tullahoma, Tennessee, on July 15, 2022. He was born in Chattanooga, the son of the late Jack D. Dickson, Sr. and Mary Jeanette Levi in 1945. Jack graduated from Tullahoma Senior High School in 1963 and MTSU in 1967. He later served in Vietnam as a Captain with D Troop, 3/4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division as a helicopter pilot, where he earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Bronze Stars, and 10 Air Medals, with combat “V” for valor devices. He finished his military career as a Lieutenant Colonel in the 423rd Medical Detachment (Air Ambulance), 98th Division, U.S. Army Reserve in Syracuse, NY. Jack married Gail Donaldson in 1971, in Watertown, NY. Jack retired from Dresser- Rand in Painted Post, NY in 2007. He is survived by his wife, Gail, three children, Jeanette D. Valdez, Patrick Beecher and Roslyn Beecher, and four granddaughters: Elizabeth Cass, Katherine Salembier, Anna Beecher, and Grace Salembier. He is also survived by his paternal aunt, Ann O’Connell and his brother, Scott Dickson and Scott’s wife, Patty and their children: Mikayla, Travis, and Lindsey. 

Jack was a lifetime aviation enthusiast, #hueyflyer. He also enjoyed hunting, fishing, skiing, geocaching and boating on the Tim’s Ford with his grandchildren. In retirement, he served as the Range Safety Officer at the Highland Rim Shooter’s Club. 

A Celebration of Life is scheduled for Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 11 AM at Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home. A burial at the National Cemetery in Chattanooga will be scheduled at a later date. The family will receive friends at Daves-Culbertson this Saturday from 10 AM until the service time.