Obituaries

Margaret C. Jones

Graveside Services for Margaret C. Jones, age 80, will be Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 12:00 PM at Centerpoint Baptist Church Cemetery. Mrs. Jones died Thursday, May 21, 2020 at her residence. Visitation for Mrs. Jones will be Friday, May…

Jerry Gerald “L’il Jack” Bowers

Graveside Services for Jerry Gerald “L’il Jack” Bowers, age 55, will be Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 12:00 PM at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Mr. Bowers died Thursday, May 21, 2020 at Jackson General Hospital. For additional information, contact Mercer Brothers…

Dr. John Myron Bishop

Dr. John Myron Bishop, age 89, resident of Somerville, Tennessee and husband of the late Margaret McMillan Graham Bishop, departed this life Tuesday evening, May 26, 2020 at Methodist LeBonheur Germantown Hospital. Dr. Bishop was born July 29, 1930 in…

Jane Fee Wolfe

Jane Fee Wolfe was born on December 7, 1937 and passed away on May 24, 2020 and is under the care of George A. Smith & Sons Funeral Home. Visitation with Friends and Loved Ones will be held on May…

Allene James Fesmire

Allene James Fesmire, age 85 of Jackson, passed away on Monday, May 25, 2020 in Milan, TN. Allene was born on August 22, 1934 in Henderson County, TN, the daughter of the late Henry Evans James and Mary Lucille Wilson.…

Betty Faye Lessel Burrows

Betty Faye Lessel Burrows, age 83, resident of Moscow, Tennessee, departed this life Tuesday evening, May 26, 2020 at Methodist LeBonheur Germantown Hospital. Betty was born June 21, 1936 in Blue Springs, Mississippi, daughter of the late Herschel Lessel and…

John R. Long, Jr.

John R. Long, Jr., 95, passed away peacefully at his home in Jackson on May 26, 2020. John was born in Jackson October 4, 1924, the only child of John R. and Evie Long, and was a lifelong resident of…

Hillard R. Collins

Hillard R. Collins, age 82, died Sunday, May 24, 2020 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital. He was born in Madison County, TN on March 1, 1938, the son of the late Roy E. and Helen Brown Collins. H. (as he…

Joe Blake Hudson

Joe was born in Madison County, son of the late Rex Douglas and Annie Blake Hudson. He was preceded in death by his wife Bettye Jo Howell Hudson, brother Jere Delk Hudson and an infant daughter, Carol Lynne Hudson. He…

Judith A. Murray

Judith A. Murray, passed away Saturday, May 23, 2020 in Jackson after a long battle with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).  She was born on May 24, 1946, the daughter of Robert and Francis Hamilton Powell, of Knoxville.  She was a retired…