Obituary Report for September 12, 2003
McMinnville resident and Warren County native Velma Leoma Jennings Killian, 90, died Sept. 9 at NHC Healthcare after an extended illness.
A homemaker and a member of Philadelphia The Baptist Church of Christ, she was the daughter of Tom and Sarah Taylor Jennings; and was preceded in death by her first husband, Frank Slaughter in 1936; her second husband, James Killian in 1990; granddaughter, Louise Slaughter; brothers, George and Frank Jennings; sister, Lema Myers; halfbrother, Jesse Jennings; and halfsister, Azelia Ledbetter.
She is survived by children and their spouses, David and Melba Slaughter, Wilma and Johnny Wanamaker, Charles and Wanda Killian, all of McMinnville, Betty and Ralph Smartt, Patsy and George Tate, all of Beersheba Springs; 13 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren; halfsisters, Earlene Sarten and Dorothy Pack, both of McMinnville and Thelma Dean Byars of Smithville; halfbrother, Tom Junior Jennings of McMinnville; several nieces and nephews.
Services were held Thursday at High’s Chapel with Anthony Wanamaker and Alton Scruggs officiating. Burial followed at Philadelphia Cemetery in Grundy County.
High Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Sept. 12, 2003
Emma Marie Driver, 85
McMinnville resident and Warren County native Emma Marie Driver, 85, died Sept. 11 at Meadowbrook Health Care in Pulaski.
A retired employee of McMinnville Garment Company, a homemaker and a member of Madison Street Baptist Church, she was the daugther of the late Robert and Emma Thompkins Morton; and was preceded in death by her husband, John A. Driver; daughters, Elizabeth Smith and Catherine Jo Smith; and sisters, Edith Layne, Minnie Turner, Carrie Griffith, Ida Holt, Willie Bouldin and Sadie Graham.
She is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Billie Faye and Richard Vaughn of Minor Hill; sister, Octa Green of McMinnville; grandchildren, John, Ashley, Robert and Holly Vaughn, all of Minor Hill; several nieces and nephews.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at McMinnville Funeral Home with Rev. Carl Smith officiating. Burial will follow at Faulkner Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 2 to 9 p.m. today and 9 a.m. until time of service Saturday at McMinnville Funeral Home.
McMinnville Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Sept. 12, 2003