Obituary Report for June 29, 2003
McMinnville resident and Warren County native Nora L. Turner Chapman, 82, died June 28 at LakeWest Hospital in Willoughby after a battle with lung cancer.
An employee at the shoe factory during the 1940s and then the garment factory, she retired from Century Electric. She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy E. Chapman, daughter Frances L. Chapman Holt, parents James and Eula Thaxton Turner, brothers J.T. and Emmett Turner and sister Elizabeth McBride.
She is survived by granddaughter Cynthia Buchanan and her husband, John of Eastlake; great-grandsons Michael J. Buchanan and Mitchell J. Buchanan, both of Eastlake, son-in-law James G. Holt of Eastlake, sister-in-law Mary C. Jett of Frankfort, Ky., and many nieces and nephews.
Serviced will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home with burial following at Gardens of Memory. Visitation is from 1 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Gideons International for the placement of Bibles in her name.
Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) June 29, 2003
Merle Earl Hooper, 56
McMinnville resident and Canton, N.C., native Merle Earl Hooper, 56, died June 23 in Show Low, Ariz., after an extended illness.
A credit manager with Volvo International and a member of Pioneer Baptist Church, he served his county in the U.S. Navy.
The son of Zack and Ruby Ethel Rickman Hooper; he is survived by brothers, Bobby Hooper of Altamont and Samuel Hooper of Maggie Valley, N.C.; sisters, Thelma Thomas of South Carolina and Carolyn Hooper of Texas; several nieces and nephews and friends.
Services were held Saturday at Pioneer Community Baptist Church with John Thompson officiating. Burial followed at Hooper Family Cemetery in Grundy County. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Care America, in care of Beverly Meeks, 1707 Yager Road, McMinnville, TN. 37110.
High Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) June 29, 2003