Obituary Report for June 26, 2002
Lanis (Jack) Myers, 75
McMinnville resident and Grundy County native Lanis (Jack) Myers, 75, died June 25 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.
An employee of Burroughs-Ross-Colville where he was a lumber worker, he was the son of Luther and Mae Hobbs Myers and was preceded in death by son Jackie Wayne Myers; brother Hervey Myers; half-sister Dressie Bell McCormick; and three half-brothers Everett, Zebie and Franklin Myers.
He is survived by his wife Mildred Pauline Myers; sons and daughter-in-law David Myers and Tony and Brenda Myers, all of McMinnville; daughters and sons-in-law Frances Neal of Smartt Station, Daisy Woodside, Lucy and Gary Webster, and Louise and Rickey McCormick, all of McMinnville, Nora and Johnny Haston, Peggy and Larry Byars, all of Rock Island, and Patsy and Mickey Davis of Dibrell; 14 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; sister Etter Elkins of Summitville; half-brothers Kenneth and Bill Myers of Viola; and half-sisters Clercy Thatch, Hester Young, Reeder McCormick, all of McMinnville and Hissie Myers of Viola.
Services will be held Thursday at 3 p.m. at High’s Chapel with burial following a Mt. Zion Cemetery. Visitation is today beginning at 11 a.m. at High’s.
High Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) June 26, 2002
Patricia Dian Owenby, 57
McMinnville resident and Warren County native Patricia Dian Owenby, 57, died unexpectedly June 23 at River Park Hospital.
A business owner and operator of J.P.’s Air Duct and Ventilation Services, a former LPN nurse at River Park Hospital, and a former cosmetology instructor, she was a member of Covenant Fellowship Church, a member of the Eastern Star, Lions Club and Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW.
The daughter of the late Verby Sterling and Ella Beatrice Fisher Jones; she was preceded in death by brothers, Clayton A. and Joe A. Jones; sister, Georgia Farley; and twins, Kimberly Dian and Keith Austin Owenby; and husband, Austin Owenby.
She is survived by daughters, Karen L. Nunley of McMinnville and Krista Faith Sutherlin of Tupelo, Ms.; son, Kevin Shawn Owenby of Sevierville; sisters, Oleda Crain of Townsend, Del., Verbolynn (Peggy) Maxson, Margie Mason and Billie Shoemaker, all of McMinnville; brothers, Carl A. Jones of McMinnville and Jerry Jones of Roseville, Mich.; and three grandchildren.
Services were held Tuesday at Covenant Fellowship Church with Dr. Dean Northcutt officiating. Burial followed at Jefferson Cemetery.
McMinnville Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) June 26, 2002
Argie Melton Wade Ford, 94
Woodbury resident and Cannon County native Argie Melton Wade Ford, 94, died June 24 at NHC Healthcare in Lewisburg.
A resident manager with Holiday House until age 91 and a member of Woodbury Church of God, she was the daughter of the late Silas and Helen Summers Melton; and was preceded in death by stepmother, Bertha Melton; her husbands, Homer Wade and Horace Lemuel (Lem) Ford; son, Mike Ford; sister, Katie Ferrell; and brother, Comer Melton.
She is survived by daughters, Beatrice Wade Helton Jolley of Rockwood, Lucille Wade Todd of Centertown and Janice Ford Patrick Bills of Lewisburg; stepdaughters, Faye Ford Rogers of Nashville and Willa Ford Deberry of Woodbury; sons, Robert Lee Wade of McMinnville, W.T. Ford of Woodbury and Joe M. Ford of Smithville; step son, James A. Ford, senior master sergeant with the Air Force in Niceville, Fla.; sisters, Bernice Nowlin of McMinnville, Annie M. Northcutt of Murfreesboro and Flossie Ferrell of Detroit, Mich.; brother, Mayne Melton of Short Mountain; 21 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Woodbury Funeral Home Chapel with Jeff Page and Herb Alsup officiating. Burial will follow at Riverside Gardens. Visitation will be held from 4 to 9 p.m. today at Woodbury Funeral Home.
Woodbury Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) June 26, 2002