OBITUARIES

Barbara Ann (Byrd) Freytag

Barbara Ann (Byrd) Freytag

Oct 31, 2022

Barbara Ann Byrd Freytag, 88, of Cleveland, TN passed peacefully on October 31, 2022. She was born to Lowell Ancil Byrd and Juanita Hatfield Byrd on May 29, 1934. She graduated from Coalfield High School where she was a star member of the basketball team and continued playing basketball through portions of her adult life. She attended and graduated from...

Sandra Diane Knight

Sandra Diane Knight

Oct 31, 2022

Diane Beavers Knight, 56, of Georgetown, TN, passed Monday, October 31, 2022, at her home surrounded by her family.   She had lived in the area most of her life.  She was a member of New Union Baptist Church in Georgetown and had worked for Volunteer Electric Cooperative and the U.S. Postal Service.  Her family was her life.  She was a...

David Lee Geren

David Lee Geren

Oct 30, 2022

David Lee Geren, 75, of Charleston, TN, passed away on Sunday, October 30, 2022 at his residence surrounded by his family.  He has lived in the Bradley County area his entire life, and was of the Church of God faith.  He had been an employee of Schering-Plough Healthcare Products of Cleveland, and a Veteran of the U.S. Navy.  He was...

Auston O'Neal Stevison

Auston O'Neal Stevison

Oct 27, 2022

Auston O’Neal Stevison, 87, a lifelong resident of Cleveland passed away at his home on Thursday, October 27, 2022.  Auston was born on October 22, 1935, to Mae Bell Helton Stevison and Famous Stevison.

After graduating from Bradley Central High School, he joined the U.S. Army in January 1955, serving in the 18th Airborne Corp, Headquarters Detachment.  After leaving the...

Joyce Tosh Curtis

Joyce Tosh Curtis

Oct 26, 2022

Joyce Tosh Curtis, 83, of Cleveland, went home to meet her Lord and Savior on Wednesday, October 26, 2022 in her home surrounded by her family.  She was born in Pulaski, TN, on November 6, 1938.  She was a member of South Cleveland Church of God and a devoted wife supporting her husband in his ministry.  She made everyone feel...

Frances Elizabeth Collins Quarles

Frances Elizabeth Collins Quarles

Oct 25, 2022

Frances Elizabeth Collins Quarles, 89, formerly of Cleveland, passed away Tuesday, October 25, 2022, in a healthcare facility in Cartersville, GA.  She was a member of Pine Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church in McDonald.

She was preceded death by her husband, James “Bud” Quarles; parents, Henry Clay Collins, Sr., and Daisy Mae Lowery Quarles; one son, Terry Wayne Quarles; five siblings,...

Bobby (Bob) Allen Brown

Bobby (Bob) Allen Brown

Oct 24, 2022

Bobby (Bob) Allen Brown, 90, of Cleveland, passed away on Monday, October 24, 2022 at his residence surrounded by his family.  He was born in Calhoun, Tennessee, and had attended the Cleveland Christian Fellowship Church for many years.

He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in October 1951 and served honorably aboard the USS Collett Naval Destroyer during the Korean War. ...

Cheryl Merritt

Cheryl Merritt

Oct 23, 2022

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Margaret Clark Liner/Stewart

Margaret Clark Liner/Stewart

Oct 21, 2022

Margaret Clark Liner Stewart, 86, of Cleveland, TN went home to meet her Lord and Savior on Friday, October 21, 2022. 

Margaret was born August 7,1936 in Cleveland to Loyal & Pearl Johnson Clark. She was an only child.  

In 1968, she met and married the love of her life, Ray Liner. They had one child Kenneth...

Molly Ann Davis Burns

Molly Ann Davis Burns

Oct 21, 2022

Molly Ann Davis Burns age 91 of Cleveland, passed away October 21, 2022. 

She was preceded in death by her parents, Vernon and Hazel Davis; loving husband, Robert James Burns; brothers, David Davis, Pryor Davis (Althea), Bob Davis (Margie); sister, Nancy Linton (Fred); brother-in-law, Edward Burns (Betty); sister-in-law, Jane Malone (Jim). 

Survivors are her son, Robert Vernon Burns...

Jane Carol Meis

Jane Carol Meis

Oct 19, 2022

Jane Carol Meis, 78, of McDonald, passed away Wednesday, October 19, 2022, in a local hospital.  She was born in Ringgold, GA, and has lived in the Bradley County area for over forty years.  She was a member of the Southern Deaf Fellowship of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in McDonald.  She was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother.  She loved...

Spence Donaldson Prichard

Spence Donaldson Prichard

Oct 15, 2022

Spence Donaldson Prichard, 87, of Cleveland, passed away Saturday, October 15, 2022 in a local hospital. 

He was a 1953 graduate of Polk County High School.   After graduation, he worked for a bit in Chicago until he and some friends decided to go to the Army because there was “nothing better to do”.  He served two years in Germany...

Catherine Z. Kerr

Catherine Z. Kerr

Oct 12, 2022

Catherine Kerr, age 88, a resident of Cleveland, passed peacefully in her home surrounded by her family, on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 in Cleveland, TN.  She was a retiree of Cleveland High School cafeteria and a lifelong resident of Cleveland.  Catherine loved her many children and grandchildren and was a faithful member of the East Side Church of Christ.

She...

Floyd Russel Dotson

Floyd Russel Dotson

Oct 10, 2022

Floyd Russel Dotson, 90, a resident of Cleveland, passed away on Monday, October 10, 2022, in a local healthcare facility.  He was born and raised in Michigan and moved from Grand Blanc, MI, to Cleveland, TN, 33 years ago following his retirement from General Motors Corporation.  He was a Veteran of the U.S. Army.  He loved doing woodworking and playing...

Ethel Lucy Thomas

Ethel Lucy Thomas

Oct 10, 2022

Obituary of Ethel Lucy Neloms Thomas Ethel Lucy Thomas , 96 of Fort Wayne, Indiana, passed away Monday morning, October 10, 2022. She was of the Church of God faith. Preceded in death by: her parents, James and Judie (Vest) Vess of Knoxville, Tennessee; three brothers and nine sisters; three children, Raymond Neloms, Ada Akins, and Jerline Huff; and her...

Billy Joe Crittenden

Billy Joe Crittenden

Oct 10, 2022

           

 

Billy Joe Crittenden

Billy Joe Crittenden, age 82 of Charleston, TN passed away Monday, October 10, 2022 at Erlanger Hospital.

Bill was born in Moro, Arkansas to the late Joe C. and Loueva Monger Crittenden.

Years later, Bill with his parents, moved to the Calhoun, Charleston, TN area. He soon met the love of his life, Wanda Colloms,...

Judith Ann Green

Judith Ann Green

Oct 7, 2022

Judith Green, 81, of Georgetown, passed Friday, October 7, 2022. She was a member of Brittsville Baptist Church in Georgetown, TN. Judith was born to Joseph Carl Sneed and Frances Varnell Sneed July 20, 1941. She was a lifelong resident of Meigs County and a retiree of the Hardwick Clothing in Cleveland. Judith adored her children, her numerous grandchildren and...

Barbara "Jean" Baines Owens

Barbara "Jean" Baines Owens

Oct 7, 2022

Barbara “Jean” Owens, 87, of Cleveland, TN passed away Friday October 7, 2022.

She was a lifelong follower of Christ and spent most of her years as a member of Big Springs Methodist Church of Cleveland, TN.

Jean was preceded in death by her loving husband of 44 years, Alvin J. L. Owens; parents, Jethro and Mary Baines; two sisters,...

James Curtis McChristian Jr.

James Curtis McChristian Jr.

Oct 6, 2022

James Curtis "J.C.” McChristian, Jr. passed away peacefully the morning of October 6, 2022, surrounded by his loving family. J.C. was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas on August 11, 1935 to James Curtis McChristian, Sr. and Thurza Virginia Shreve. He attended the University of Arkansas before serving in Korea as a Sergeant in the Marine Corps. On June 27th, 1964, he...

Debra S. Williams

Debra S. Williams

Oct 6, 2022

Debra Williams, 64, a resident of Charleston passed away to her heavenly home on Thursday, October 6, 2022. Debra fought a lengthy illness, was dearly loved and will be missed by all who knew her and who are left here to cherish the precious memories that were left behind. She was recently retired from Tennova Healthcare, where she worked as...

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