Hassie Loring Mathis Gordy, 90

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Hassie Loring Mathis Gordy, 90, died July 31 at Raintree Manor after an extended illness.

A retired nurse and homemaker, and a charter member of Northside Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Louise Bell Mullican Mathis and was also preceded in death by her husband, James Edward Gordy, sisters Rosie Smith and Lillie Hicks, and brothers Houston Mathis and Shelie Mathis.

She is survived by daughters Maxine Winton of McMinnville, Johneen Winton of Boaz, Ala., son Paul Edward Gordy Sr., of Phoenix, Ariz., seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Services are today at 2 p.m. at McMinnville Funeral Home Chapel with Brother Carson Rust officiating. Burial will follow at Gardens of Memory. Visitation is today from 10 a.m. until the time of the service at McMinnville Funeral Home.

McMinnville Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Aug. 3, 2005