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Dean Cantrell, 82

Smithville resident Dean Cantrell, 82, died May 15 at NHC in Smithville after an extended illness.

The former owner of Keltonburg Grocery, a retired nurse, sales clerk and dispatcher, she was a member of Smithville First United Methodist Church.

The daughter of the late Elmer Cecil and Ethel Taylor Hall; she was preceded in death by her husband, Gentry Lee Cantrell; daughter, Darlene Haas; and sister, Ruby Brown DeBruce.

She is survived by children and their spouses, Jerry Lee and Jane Cantrell, Phillip Wayne and Marilyn Cantrell, and Regina Hope Bates, all of Smithville, and Ronald Glynn and Judy Cantrell of McMinnville; 12 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren; and sisters, Patricia Wooten of Mt. Clemens, Mich., and Joan Burge of Clinton Township, Mich.

Services will be held at 1 p.m. today at DeKalb Funeral Chapel with Michael Hale officiating. Burial will follow at Keltonburg Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. until time of service today at DeKalb Funeral Home.

DeKalb Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Southern Standard

(McMinnville, Tenn.) May 17, 2006

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