Fannie Lou Stone, 100

Sparta resident and White County native Fannie Lou Stone, 100, died April 6 at NHC in Sparta.

A retired restaurant owner, she was the daughter of the late Frank A. and Sarah Iona Mires Stewart; and was preceded in death by her husband, Ridley Stone; son, Frank Roscoe Stone; daughter, B. Elene Hyder; brothers, Alvin, Ray and Kenneth Stewart; sister, Vera Saylors; and grandson, Michael Lee Hyder.

She is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Norma Thompson and Ray Holman of Sparta; son and daughter-in-law, Gordon and Sophia Stone of Surfside Beach, S.C.; son-in-law, Max Hyder of McMinnville; sister, Mary Kate Davis of Alabama; special friends, William Phillips and Estelle Lewis; seven grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Thurman Funeral Home in Sparta with Dillard Johnson officiating. Burial will follow at Old Zion Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. today at Thurman.

Thurman Funeral Home of Sparta is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) April 9, 2004