Lydia F. Guy, 81

Spencer resident and Van Buren County native Lydia F. Guy, 81, died Sept. 3 at White County Hospital after a one-year illness.

A housekeeper and a member of Clark Chapel Church of God, she was the daughter of the late Jesse Eston and Daisy Yates Simmons; and was preceded in death by her husband, John David Guy; daughter, Mary Frances Ferguson; son, Charles David Guy; sisters, Vollie Baker and Martha Ann Walker; and brothers, Roy Henry Simmons and Larry Simmons.

She is survived by children, Verble L. Guy of Dunlap, Janice Simmons of Doyle, Johnny Ray Guy of Spencer and Kathy Guy of McMinnville; brother, James Ernest Simmons of Spencer; sisters, Bessie Mooneyham of Mooneyham, Daisy May Kumar of Michigan and Rosa Lee Cunningham of McMinnville; several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home Spencer Chapel with David Rogers officiating. Burial will follow at Town Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 3 to 9 p.m. today and 8 a.m. until time of service Monday at the Spencer Chapel.

Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home Spencer Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Sept. 4, 2005