Emogene Garrett

COOKEVILLE, TN-Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth ‘Emogene' Garrett, 89 of Dayton, Ohio and formerly of Cookeville & Monterey will be held Friday August 30 at 11 a.m. at the Cookeville chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Welch Memorial Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be Thursday from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. with an Eastern Star service to follow at 7 p.m. Family will also receive friends Friday from 10 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Mrs. Garrett died Sunday August 25, 2019 at 3:23 a.m. in Otterbein of Springboro Senior Life Neighborhood in Centerville, Ohio. She was born May 19, 1930 in the Sand Springs community near Monterey to the late Alfred W. and Ella Roberson Welch. Emogene worked as an office clerk at Scholastic Magazines and later in the food service industry as a server and manager. She adored her grandchildren who lovingly referred her as Grandma Doll. She was a member of Eastwood Baptist Church and while residing in Ohio, Miamisburg First Church of God. She was a member of Cookeville Eastern Star Chapter 152. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 64 years, Billy Garrett (whom she married May 30, 1947 in Rossville, GA); an infant son; brothers (including an infant brother Alfred W. Welch, Jr.), Willard, Clinton, Reed, Sam, and James "Doc" Welch; and sisters, Wanda Christine Fleenor and Dixie Pauline Poteet. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Sharon and Roy Maxwell of Centerville; grandchildren, Todd and Renee' Maxwell of Pleasant Hill, OH and Craig and Emily Maxwell of Dayton, OH; fourteen greatgrandchildren; and by sister, Anna Ruth Burroughs of Cookeville. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Dayton (OH), 324 Wilmington Ave., Dayton, OH 45420. Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements (931)526-6111. Share memories and condolences at hhhfunerals.com.