Obituaries
Louise Morgan
September 24, 2013
Mrs. Louise K. Morgan, age 94, of Dyer, Tennessee, passed away from this life on September 24, 2013, at the Dyer Nursing Home. Funeral services for Mrs. Morgan will be conducted on Saturday, October 12, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Karnes & Son Funeral Home of Dyer with Bro. Randy Potts officiating. Interment will follow in Rutherford...
Martha Halford
September 17, 2013
Mrs. Martha Faye Siler Halford, age 92, passed away from this life on Tuesday, September 17, 2013. Mrs. Halford, a homemaker, was born in Obion County, Tennessee; the daughter of the late Lacey Curtis Siler and Mary Hargett Siler Elder. She was a longtime member of the First United Methodist Church in Kenton, Tennessee. Mrs. Halford was preceded in death...
Willie Arrington
September 11, 2013
Mrs. Willie Madge Gravett Brown Arrington, age 91, passed away on Wednesday, September 11, 2013, at her home, with her loving family. Funeral services for Mrs. Arrington will be held on Saturday, September 14, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Karnes and Son Funeral Home in Rutherford. Burial will be in the Rutherford Cemetery with Bro. Brian Howard...
Jerry Robinson
September 4, 2013
Mr. Jerry Lee Robinson, age 79, of Dyer, Tennessee, passed away from this life on September 4, 2013, at his home. Funeral services for Mr. Robinson will be conducted on Sunday, September 8, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Karnes & Son Funeral Home of Dyer with Bro. John Coleman officiating. Interment will follow in New Bethlehem Cemetery...
Winfred Graves
August 27, 2013
Mr. Winfred Graves, age 92, of Kenton, Tennessee, passed away from this life on August 27, 2013, at the Dyer Nursing Home. Funeral services for Mr. Graves will be conducted on Sunday, September 1, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Karnes & Son Funeral Home of Kenton. Interment will follow in Sunnyside Cemetery of Kenton. Mr. Graves was...
Frances Abbott
August 24, 2013
Mrs. Frances Hardie Abbott, age 98, of Dyer, Tennessee, passed away from this life on August 24, 2013, at the Dyer Nursing Home. Funeral services for Mrs. Abbott will be conducted on Wednesday, August 28, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Karnes & Son Funeral Home of Dyer with Bro. DeWayne Goodgine and Bro. Gary Doughten officiating. Interment...
Daniel Duffer
August 18, 2013
Mr. Daniel Wallace Duffer, age 93 of Rutherford, Tennessee, passed away from this life on Sunday, August 18, 2013, at home. Funeral services for Mr. Wallace will be conducted on Wednesday, August 21, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. in the chapel of Karnes & Son Funeral Home with Bro. Marlon Stephens officiating. Interment will follow in Walnut Grove Cemetery in Kenton,...
Howard Petty
August 17, 2013
Mr. Howard Norman Petty, age 62, of Dyer, Tennessee, passed away on Saturday, August 17, 2013, at Jackson Madison County General Hospital. Funeral services for Mr. Petty will be held on Monday, August 19, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Karnes and Son Funeral Home in Dyer, Tennessee. Bro. Scott Jewell will officiate. Burial will be in the...
Alice Curtis
August 13, 2013
Mrs. Alice Dale Curtis, age 72, of Dyer, Tennessee, passed away from this life on August 13, 2013, at the Dyer Nursing Home. Funeral services for Mrs. Curtis will be conducted on Thursday, August 15, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. in the chapel of Karnes & Son Funeral Home of Dyer with Bro. DeWayne Goodgine officiating. Interment will follow in Yorkville...
Susan Yoder
August 11, 2013
Mrs. Susan Yoder, age 78 years, 6 months, and 23 days died on August 11, 2013, at Bradford, Tennessee. She was born January 18, 1935 at Norfolk, Virginia. Funeral services for Mrs. Susan Yoder will be conducted on Monday, August 12, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. at the Berea Mennonite Church of Rutherford, Tennessee. Interment will follow in Montezuma Mennonite Cemetery...
Harry Harrison
August 5, 2013
Harry Holmes Harrison passed away Monday evening, August 5th, 2013. He was born on February 4th, 1917 just two months before the U.S. entered World War I. The 3rd youngest of 10 brothers and sisters, Harry grew up on a cotton farm in Yorkville, TN. In 1940 he met and married the love of his life, Mary Helen Halford. Together...
Floye Ashe
August 1, 2013
Floye Edna Ashe, daughter of Stephen Emmerson Ethridge and Thula Jane Halford Davis, was born, April 12, 1915, west of Rutherford, Tennessee in the Walnut Grove community. She departed this life, Thursday, August 1, 2013, in University Hospital, Columbia, Missouri at the age of ninety-eight years, three months and twenty days. On March 16, 1935, in South Fulton, Kentucky, she...
Dora Walker
July 30, 2013
Mrs. Dora Walker, age 83, of Rutherford, Tennessee, passed away from this life on July 30, 2013, at Jackson Madison County General Hospital. Funeral services for Mrs. Walker will be conducted on Thursday, August 1, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Karnes & Son Funeral Home of Rutherford with Bro. Jason Bogardus officiating. Interment will follow in Rutherford...
Melissa Kernodle
July 29, 2013
Mrs. Melissa Leon Kernodle, age 92, of Kenton, Tennessee, passed away from this life on July 29, 2013, at Dyer Nursing Home. Funeral services for Mrs. Kernodle will be conducted on Sunday, August 4, 2013 at 2:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Kenton with Bro. Wayne Perkins, and Dr. Brian Robertson officiating. Interment will follow in Sunnyside cemetery,...
Louise Powell
July 29, 2013
Mrs. Louise Knox Powell, age 88, of Atoka, Tennessee, passed away from this life on July 29, 2013, at Wellington Healthcare Properties in Millington. Funeral services for Mrs. Powell will be conducted on Thursday, August 1, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. in the chapel of Karnes & Son Funeral Home of Dyer with Dr. Ray Carroll officiating. Interment will follow in...
Marcella Freeman
July 26, 2013
Mrs. Marcella Rosalie Freeman, age 87 of Dyer, Tennessee, passed away from this life on Friday, July 26, 2013, at Jackson Madison County General Hospital. Funeral services for Mrs. Freeman will be conducted on Sunday, July 28, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Karnes & Son Funeral Home with Bro. Sammie Dowland officiating. Interment will follow in Good...
Bobbie Dillard
July 23, 2013
Mrs. Bobbie Jean Dillard, age 74, went to be with her Lord on July 23, 2013, at the NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro, Arkansas. She was born to Ruby and Walter Buchanan July 25, 1938. Preceding her in death were her parents, Ruby and Walker Buchanan, two husbands, Bassell W. Grady and Royce Dillard and a great-grandson, Garrett Shawn...
Noraine Becton
July 20, 2013
Ms. Noraine Becton, age 96, of Trenton, Tennessee, passed away from this life on July 20, 2013, at the Dyer Nursing Home. Funeral services for Ms. Becton will be conducted on Saturday, August 3, 2013, at 3:00 p.m. at the Mt. Olive Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Dyer with Bro. Bill Evans officiating. Interment will follow in Mt. Olive Cemetery of...
John Argo
July 19, 2013
Mr. John Albert Argo, age 73 of Rutherford, Tennessee, passed away from this life on Friday, July 19, 2013, at his home. Funeral services for Mr. Argo will be conducted on Sunday, July 21, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Karnes & Son Funeral Home with Roger Utter officiating. Interment will follow in Harmony Cemetery of Idlewild. He...
Ernestine Bradley
July 11, 2013
Ernestine Stephenson Bradley, age 95, departed this life to join the heavenly choir Thursday, July 11, 2013, at Jonesboro, Arkansas. Ernestine was born October 13, 1917, in the Miller’s Chapel community in Dyer county Tennessee to the late John Ernest and Margaret Elizabeth (Miller) Stephenson. She lived near Kenton, Tennessee for 43 years before relocating to Jonesboro, Arkansas in 1997....

