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...
Michael David Britt
Oct 19, 2022
Michael D. Britt, Jr., age 37, passed away October 19, 2022. He loved bowling and was excellent doing it. He enjoyed all outdoor activities, especially camping and fly fishing. Michael was a giver. He was a beloved son, brother, uncle and dad.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents and many other family members.
Survived by his son,...
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...
Robert Joseph Leffew
Oct 15, 2022
Robert J. Leffew, 79, of Cleveland, TN, passed away on Saturday, October 15, 2022, at his home. He was born September 24, 1943, in Dayton, Tennessee. A graduate of Tennessee Polytechnic Institute (currently Tennessee Tech University) with a liberal arts degree. Robert was a retired, dedicated educator for 33 years in the Bradley County school district (Charleston High School and...
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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...
Joe Taylor Gobble
Oct 2, 2022
JOE TAYLOR GOBBLE
After 90 blessed years, Joe Taylor Gobble went home to be with the Lord on October 2, 2022. Joe was a resident of Bradley County for almost 80 years and was a member of Mount Zion United Methodist Church. He was born on Harle Avenue in Cleveland, TN in 1932. After living in Knoxville for a few...
Richard "Red" Lemar Coley
Sep 28, 2022
Richard Coley “Red” of Cleveland passed away Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 6:50 pm at a local hospital. He was a born again Christian, and of the Pentecostal faith. He was a mechanic most of his life. Red loved to play the guitar and sing and he composed his own music. He loved his family dearly. He was preceded in...
Percy Martin Aler
Sep 25, 2022
Percy Martin Aler passed away from this life into his heavenly home on Sunday, September 25, 2022. Percy was a lighthearted man, loved to laugh, dance and say "PARTY." He touched so many lives at Life Bridges where he had lived for some forty years. His life was enhanced ,not only, by the friends he made but by the free...
Betty Jeane Hewitt
Sep 24, 2022
Betty Jeane Lawson Hewitt 91, of Cleveland passed away at Bradley Healthcare & Rehab on Saturday, September 24, 2022. She was born April 27, 1931 in Cleveland to her father and mother, August and Bobbie Lawson. She has been a resident of Cleveland her entire life. Betty was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses and this gave her strength to endure to...
Donald L. Ratcliff
Sep 24, 2022
Donald L. Ratcliff
Donald L. Ratcliff passed away in Riverdale, GA at the age of 88 years old on September 24, 2022. He was born Dec 9, 1933 in Cleveland, TN at his grandmother’s home on Wildwood Avenue.
He was a Graduate of Bradley High School, Cleveland, TN in the class of 1952.
Donald then served in the U.S....
Hazel Marie Avans
Sep 8, 2022
Hazel Avans, 89, of Cleveland passed Thursday, September 8, 2022. She was a member of Mount Olive Church of God in Cleveland, TN. Hazel was born to Carl Wesley Trotter and Chassie Mabell Wooden Trotter, July 29, 1933. She was a lifelong resident of Bradley County and a retiree of the Charleston Hosiery Mill in Cleveland. Hazel enjoyed music and...
Jack A. Williams
Sep 8, 2022
Mr. Jack Arthur Williams, 76, of Cleveland passed away Thursday, September 8, 2022. He was a veteran of the United States Navy and served in The Vietnam War. He was a devout man, longtime Chiropractor, and proud father and grandfather. He was the son of the late Calvin Dell Williams and Oree Roddenberry Williams and was preceded in death by...
Alice Fay Pettit
Sep 2, 2022
Alice Fay Keith Pettit, 75, of Cleveland passed away at her residence on Friday, September 2, 2022. She was of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her parents, Eugene Hamilton and Iva Jacks Keith as well as her beloved husband of over 50 years, Sam Pettit. Fay leaves behind to cherish her memory, five children, Gary (Misty)...
