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Obituaries For Monday, September 10
Mrs. Patricia “Pat” L. Dillon, 69 of Cookeville died Sunday September 9, 2018 at 10:47 a.m. in Cookeville Regional Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Mrs. Cynthia Grosklaus, age 61 of Cookeville died Saturday September 8, 2018 at 7:35 a.m. at her home. Arrangements are incomplete.
A Mass of Christian Burial for Mrs. Pamela Doris Watson, 83, of Baxter will be held Tuesday, September 11 at 11 a.m. at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Cookeville. Interment will follow in Smellage Memory Gardens in the Boma community. Father James Panackal will officiate. Mrs. Watson died Friday, September 7, 2018 at her residence. She was born Saturday June 15, 1935 in Boma to the late Henry Grady and Nola Edna Lowe Jernigan. She attended Baxter Seminary. She and her husband Robert Carlon moved to Detroit, MI in 1952 and she was employed at National Bank of Detroit for 30 years. She has been a member of Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Cookeville returning to live in Tennessee in 1997. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by four sisters, Essie Kremske, Ova Julian, Olive Jared, Nell Walker, five brothers, John Thurman, Jasper “Buddy”, Charlie, Glenn and Henry “Jr.” Jernigan. She is survived by her adoring family, her husband of 67 years, Robert Carlon Watson; four children, Myra (Hank) DeHerder of Shelby Twp., Michigan, Roger (Laura Brown) of Lacock, England, Tim (Kathy) Watson of Green Bay, Wisconsin and Tom (Jackie) Watson of Stockbridge, Michigan; six grandchildren, Henrik DeHerder, Lindsay Kindlon, Benjamin Watson, Kathryn Ahlbrandt-Watson, Jason Watson and Crystal Watson, eight great grandchildren; sisters, Pearl Harris, Jean (Arnold) Robinson, all of Baxter and Judy Moore of San Antonio, TX; brother, Norman Jernigan of Shelby Twp., MI; and by many nieces and nephews. Mrs. Watson’s family will receive friends Monday 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Baxter Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner and again at the church Tuesday 10 a.m. until service time.
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Dee Western, age 89, of Cookeville, will be held 1 p.m. Tuesday September 11 at Dyer Funeral Home. Bro. J.R. Walls and Bro. Jim Tennant will officiate. Interment will follow at Nash Cemetery. Mrs. Western passed away Saturday morning September 8, 2018 at her home. She was born July 1, 1929 in Putnam County to the late Green Duke and Ellar Hedgecough Nash. Mrs. Western was a homemaker and attended Boiling Springs Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, John F. Western; son-in-law, Harold Maxwell; five sisters, Oshie Duncan, Ina Rhoten, Martha Swafford, Evelyn Randolph, and Adell Allison; and seven brothers, Haskell, Charlie, Oscar, Sam, Jay, Clifford, and Asher Nash. She is survived by son, John Garland Western of Cookeville; daughter, Barbara Maxwell of Baxter; two sisters, Ruby (James) Lafever of Crossville, and Lorene Trobough of Baxter; and grandson, Devin Maxwell. The family will receive friends Monday from 4 – 8 p.m and again Tuesday from 11 a.m. until service time.
Prayer services for Mrs. Dolores Langford, age 86 of Cookeville will be held Tuesday September 11 at 7 in the Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Rev. Bill Stone will officiate. Her family will receive friends Tuesday from 4 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. Graveside services and interment will be Saturday September 15 at 1 p.m. (E.S.T) at Bellbrook Cemetery in Bellbrook, Ohio. Mrs. Langford died Friday September 7, 2018 at 1:48 a.m. in Cookeville Regional Medical Center.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ida Ruth Rawley Gentry, age 87 of Cookeville, will be held Wednesday September 12 at 11 a.m. in the Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Crest Lawn Cemetery. Mrs. Gentry died Sunday morning, September 9th at Cookeville Regional Medical Center. A complete obituary will be posted later. Her family will receive friends Tuesday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. and Wednesday from 10 a.m. until service time at Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home.
