Obituaries

Algood, Baxter, Cookeville and Monterey, TN Obituaries

Chantel "Alyjah" Gomez

Chantel "Alyjah" Gomez

Sep 23, 2019

Chantel "Alyjah" Gomez, age 18 of Cookeville, died Monday, September 23, 2019 from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. A 2019 graduate of Upperman High School, Chantel was in her 1st year of college with aspirations of becoming a detective. Chantel was born on December 1, 2000 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her smile was contagious, it spread for...

Rellon Farris

Rellon Farris

Sep 21, 2019

Funeral services for Mr. Rellon Eugene Farris, age 82, of Sparta, will be 1 p.m. Tuesday September 24 at Dyer Funeral Home. Bro. Doyle Crawford will officiate. Interment will follow in the West Cemetery. The family will receive friends Monday from 4 - 7 p.m. and again Tuesday from 12 p.m. until service time. Rellon passed away Saturday September...

Betty Sue Cooper

Betty Sue Cooper

Sep 21, 2019

Funeral services for Betty Sue Cooper, age 84, of Cookeville, will be at 1 p.m Wednesday September 25 at Dyer Funeral Home. Bro. Kerry Higgins and Bro. Benjamin Cooper will officiate. Interment will follow at Crest Lawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 5 - 8 p.m. and again Wednesday from 11 a.m. until service time. Mrs....

Hugh Adams

Hugh Adams

Sep 21, 2019

Funeral service for Mr. Hugh Taylor Adams, age 79, of Cookeville, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, September 25, at the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper Huddleston and Horner Funeral Home with Bro. Buddy Johnson officiating. Interment will follow at Crest Lawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends Tuesday, September 24, 5-8 p.m. and Wednesday from 10 a.m. until service...

Tommy Bilbrey

Tommy Bilbrey

Sep 20, 2019

ALGOOD-Funeral services for Mr. Swep ‘Tommy' Bilbrey, age 82, of Algood, will be held Monday September at 23rd at 4:00 p.m. at Algood United Methodist Church. Interment with military honors will follow at Algood City Cemetery. Rev. Albert Willis will officiate. His family will receive friends Monday from 3:00 p.m. until service time at the church. Mr. Bilbrey passed...

Rebecca Rogers

Rebecca Rogers

Sep 20, 2019

Funeral services for Miss Rebecca Ann Rogers, age 90 of Cookeville will be held Monday, September 23 at 11 a.m. in the Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home with Bob Pharris officiating. Interment will follow in Shipley Cemetery. Miss Rogers family will receive friends Monday from 9 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. She died Friday...

Robert Carlon Watson

Robert Carlon Watson

Sep 18, 2019

BAXTER-Robert Carlon Watson, age 87, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 surrounded by his family at The Willows at Howell, in Howell, Michigan. Robert Carlon was born to the late Leslie Grady Watson and Mary Sallie Nixon Watson on September 7, 1932 in DeKalb County, TN. In 1951 Robert married the love of his life, Pamela Doris...

Jane Mee

Jane Mee

Sep 16, 2019

Funeral services for Betty Jane Mee, age 70, of Cookeville, will be held at 12 noon Thursday September 19 at Dyer Funeral Home. Pastor Ted Kocher will officiate. Interment will follow in the West Cemetery. The family will receive friends Thursday from 11 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Jane passed away Monday evening September 16, 2019...

Eileen Jernigan

Eileen Jernigan

Sep 16, 2019

BAXTER-Graveside service and interment for Eileen Waller Jernigan, 86 of Baxter, will be Friday, September 20 at 2:30 PM at Smellage Memory Gardens in the Boma Community of Putnam County. There will be no visitation at the funeral home, family and friends will meet at the cemetery for the service. Rev. T.J. Overstreet will officiate. Mrs. Jernigan died Monday,...

Jim Andrews

Jim Andrews

Sep 15, 2019

James (Jim) Addison Andrews Jr. passed from this world to his heavenly home on September 15, 2019, where he joined his mother Esther Ruth Jones Andrews and father James Sr. All who knew Jim recognized a man of great honor, vision, commitment, and love. A native of Durham, NC, Jim graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

Irene Buck

Irene Buck

Sep 13, 2019

Funeral services for Irene Haney Buck, 88, of Cookeville, will be held at 3 p.m. Monday September 16 at the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper Huddleston and Horner Funeral Home. Bobby Lane will officiate. Interment will follow in Cookeville City Cemetery. The family will receive friends Monday from 1 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. Irene passed away...

Samuel Lasater

Samuel Lasater

Sep 12, 2019

Funeral services for Mr. Samuel Houston Lasater Jr., age 85, of Cookeville, will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday September 14th in the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Interment with military honors will follow in Double Springs Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Saturday from 1 p.m. until service time at the funeral home....

Marie Jackson

Marie Jackson

Sep 10, 2019

Funeral services for Mrs. Edith Marie Jackson, age 91, of Cookeville, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday September 25 in the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Bro. Mike Dyer will officiate. Interment will follow in the Cookeville City Cemetery. The family will receive friends Tuesday September 24 from 5 - 8 p.m. and again Wednesday...

Gerald Desmond

Gerald Desmond

Sep 9, 2019

COOKEVILLE, TN-Funeral services for Mr. Gerald Alan Desmond, age 78, of Monterey, TN will be held Saturday, September 14th at 1:00 p.m. at the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. His family will receive friends Saturday from 12:00 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. In addition, a funeral service will take place at 1:00 pm,...

Sara Stewart

Sara Stewart

Sep 7, 2019

Sara Terry Stewart, age 96 and long-time resident of Cookeville, ascended to heaven on September 7, 2019. Sara, an authentic person, possessing a vibrant personality and an unsurpassed giving heart, was born May 26, 1923 in Cookeville to the late Thomas Jasper Terry and Margaret Ethel Brown Terry. Graduating from Cookeville Central High School, she later graduated with a...

Robert Archer

Robert Archer

Sep 5, 2019

Funeral services for Robert Whitson Archer, age 77, of Cookeville, will be Sunday September 8 at 2 p.m. at Dyer Funeral Home. Bro. Johnny Fox will officiate. Interment will follow at Crest Lawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends Saturday from 4 - 8 p.m. and again Sunday from 12 p.m. until service time. Mr. Archer passed away Thursday...

Jane Mires Boyd

Jane Mires Boyd

Sep 5, 2019

Funeral services for Jane Mires Boyd, 93, of Cookeville will be Sunday, September 8 at 5 PM from the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper Huddleston Horner Funeral Home with Rev. Larry Pedigo officiating. Interment will follow in Salem Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 3 PM until service time at the funeral home. Mrs. Boyd died Thursday, September 5,...

Joe Scott

Joe Scott

Aug 31, 2019

Funeral services for Joe Donald (Bo) Scott, age 76, of Cookeville, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday September 4 at Dyer Funeral Home. Bro. Mike Madden will officiate. Interment will follow at West Cemetery. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 5 - 8 p.m. and again Wednesday from 12 noon until service time. Mr. Scott passed away suddenly...

Ruth Keisler

Ruth Keisler

Aug 30, 2019

Funeral services for Ruth Keisler, 89 of Baxter will be Monday, September 2 at 1 PM at the Baxter Chapel of Hooper Huddleston Horner Funeral Home. Entombment will follow in Crest Lawn Mausoleum. Jimmy Benson, her brother-in-law will officiate. Family will receive friends Sunday from 4 to 8 PM and after 11 AM Monday at the funeral home. Mrs....

Tom Minnear

Tom Minnear

Aug 28, 2019

Funeral services for Thomas Odean Minnear, age 86, of Cookeville will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday August 31 at Dyer Funeral Home. Bro. Frank Rogers and Bro. Dow Allen will officiate. Interment will follow in the Browns Mill Cemetery. The family will receive friends Friday from 5 - 8 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m until service time....