Category: Obituaries

MARJORIE M. SCHEG, age 72, of Winchester, Tenn., departed this life, Sunday, February 15, 2015 at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville, KY.

Marjorie was born on August 2, 1942 in Cape May, New Jersey to the late John and Margaret Husfelt Jones.

She was of the Catholic faith and an Army veteran,

Marjorie spent approximately 30 years in the nursing field in Michigan.

She was a loving mother, sister, and aunt. Marjorie is survived by her son, Richard Scheg of Winchester, Tenn., sisters; Pat Collier of Winchester, Tenn., and Virginia Kidd of Roanoke, VA, several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

It was Marjorie wishes to be cremated with no services scheduled.

Grant Funeral Services in charge of arrangements.

Mr. William B. Bateman, age 91 of Lynchburg, passed this life on Sunday, February 15 at Harton Regional Medical Center.

Funeral Services will be held Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 2 PM at Lynchburg Funeral Home with Bro. Chris Harris officiating.

Burial will follow at Smith’s Chapel Cemetery.

Visitation with the family will be Wednesday from 11 AM until the service time.

A native of Lincoln County, he was the son of the late Ollie and Florence Martin Bateman.

He was a US Army veteran serving in WWII. He was a machinist and retired in 1990 from Cleveland Pneumatic. He attended Smith’s Chapel Methodist Church. He enjoyed gardening, fishing, whittling and playing with his grandchildren.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one daughter, Connie Irene Bateman; two sisters, Virginia Parks and Shirley Gowen and one grandchild, Brooke Bateman.

Mr. Bateman is survived by his wife, Edith Bateman of Lynchburg; two sons, Billy Wayne Bateman and his wife, Sherry of Chapel Hill and Stoney Bateman and his wife, Sheila of Lynchburg; one brother, Jack Bateman of Lynchburg; four sisters, Ruth Smith, Helen Metcalf and Nancy McGee and her husband, Richard, all of Lynchburg and Faye Trail and her husband, Elvin of Manchester; six grandchildren, Chris Bateman and his wife, Angie of Shelbyville, Greg Bateman and his wife, Sharon of Lynchburg, Fallon McLanore and her husband, Nick of Indiana, Brandon Bateman and his wife, Brandy of Lynchburg, Chelsee Damron and her husband, Cory of Lynchburg and Jeremy Wayne Bateman; seven great grandchildren, Colton, Tyler, Sierra and Dakota Bateman, Braden and Jaxon McLanore and Raylee Bateman and one on the way.

LYNCHBURG FUNERAL HOME IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

Johnnie Taylor of Tullahoma passed away, Friday, February 13, 2015.

Graveside services will be held Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 12:30 PM at Maplewood Cemetery.

Visitation will be Wednesday from 10:00 AM to 12:00 noon at Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home.

Mr. Taylor is survived by his mother, Mrs. Rose Lee Taylor of Tullahoma; three brothers, Carl Taylor of Winchester, Danny and Jerry Taylor both of Tullahoma; four sisters, Annie Lou Painter and Margaret Corvin both of Tullahoma, Linda Elliott of Estill Springs and Debbie Smith of Fayetteville, TN as well as several nieces and nephews.

Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Mrs. Connie Opal Limbaugh, age 85, a lifelong mother and homemaker, passed from this life on Wednesday, February 11, 2015, at her home in rural Coffee County (on the Bradyville mail route with a DeKalb Telephone Co-op phone number).

Mrs. Limbaugh was preceded in death by her husband TJ Limbaugh; parents: Ernest and Ethyl Taylor Byford; two sisters: Flora “Jean” Allen and Cora Parker; five brothers: Pete Byford, George “Cowboy” Byford, Cecil Byford, Maurice Byford, and one infant brother; one granddaughter, Melanie Roberts Chisolm; and one son-in-law, Larry Dean Davis.

She is survived by two daughters; Barbara Davis of Bradyville, Tennessee, and Debbie Roberts and husband William of Panama City, Florida; three sons: Charles “Charley” Limbaugh and wife Molly of Nashville, Tennessee, Robert “Bob” Limbaugh and wife Vicki of Bridgeton, Missouri, and James “Jimmy” Limbaugh and wife Kim of Norfolk, Virginia; thirteen grandchildren; twenty-six great grandchildren (and two more on the way this summer); eleven step-grandchildren; twenty-two step-great grandchildren; and three step-great great grandchildren.

Mrs. Opal Limbaugh was a member of the Goose Pond United Methodist Church.

Opal was born in November of 1929. Her parents lived in the Sixteenth Model community of Coffee County when Opal was born. The daughter of a moonshiner whose wife died when Opal was eight, Opal’s life was tough, growing up during the Great Depression. She worked hard all her life, leaving home at thirteen to work in a commercial laundry. After the war, Opal married the late TJ Limbaugh, a union that lasted sixty-three years, and, some might say, made her a little crotchety. For almost fifty years (even after TJ’s death in 2009) she faithfully attended the annual reunion of TJ’s World War II unit, the 476th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion.

When Opal got old enough to sign up for Social Security, she had to use a new name, Connie; and she found out that she had a different, new, younger birthday (by a year and 10 days). Opal’s next older sister, the late Cora Parker, came to live with Opal for a few of their last years. The constant sibling bantering between them made one or two home health nurses wonder if the two should be left alone together. However, they both dearly loved funnel cakes from the County Fair and peach cobbler from Emma’s Family Restaurant.

The last two and a half years of her life, Opal was plagued with a broken ankle which refused to heal properly and ultimately had to be amputated. She told the staff at the nursing home that she may have been brought in on a gurney but that she would walk out, which she did with the aid of a modern-day, artificial foot.

Funeral Services for Mrs. Opal Limbaugh will be conducted on Sunday, February 15, 2015, at 1:00 PM at the Coffee County Funeral Chapel with Brother Cliff Seyler and Reverend Ben Day officiating.

Burial will follow in the Cherry Cemetery, Cannon County, Tennessee.

Visitation will be held on Saturday, February 14, 2015, from 5:00 PM until 9:00 PM at the Coffee County Funeral Chapel, Manchester, Tennessee.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations be made to the Melanie Roberts Chisolm Band Scholarship Fund, 5505 Sun Harbor Road, # 151, Panama City, FL 32401

COFFEE COUNTY FUNERAL CHAPEL IS HONORED TO SERVE THE FAMILY OF OPAL LIMBAUGH.

Howard Davis Hall, formerly of Tullahoma, passed this life on Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 at South Texas Regional Medical Center in Jourdanton, Texas at the age of 86.

Mr. Hall was born in Franklin County, Tennessee to the late George E. and Clara Limbaugh Hall.

During his life he served in the United States Army during the Korean War and went on to work as a letter carrier with the United States Postal Service. He was an avid fisherman, photographer, self-taught lapidary, woodworker, and inventor.  He was a member of the National Association of Letter Carriers.  He was of the Christian faith.

In addition to his parents, Mr. Hall is preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Joann Hall; and one grandson, Patrick Mangino.

He is survived by two daughters, Melissa K. Hand and her husband Buddy of Charlotte, Texas, and Rebecca Wrinn and her husband Kenny of Tullahoma; four grandchildren, Kelly Mangino of Charlotte, North Carolina, Kristin Mangino Fuller and her husband Jamie of Brentwood, Brandon Wrinn of Tullahoma, and Blake Wrinn and his wife Carrie of Knoxville; four great-granddaughters, Giovanna Mangino-Southworth, Corinne McNutt, Kennedy Grace Wrinn, and Kendall Hope Fuller.

Visitation for Mr. Hall will be held on Sunday, February 15th, 2015 from 4:00-7:00 pm.

Funeral services will be held on Monday, February 16th, 2015, his grandson Patrick’s birthday, at 2:00 pm in the Kilgore Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jason Shaw, his nephew, officiating.

Burial will follow at Rose Hill Memorial Gardens.

Kilgore Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.