Nellie Ruth Higginbotham, 87

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Nellie Ruth Higginbotham, 87, died Jan. 7 at Raintree Manor after an extended illness.

A homemaker and a member of Christ United Methodist Church, she was the daughter of Arthur A. and Cora Ann Crouch Goodwin; and was preceded in death by grandson, Michael Hennessee, one infant son and two infant daughters.

She is survived by her husband, Ralph Burger Higginbotham; daughters and son-in-law, Sue Hennessee of Columbia, Carolyn and David M. McCarroll of Murfreesboro; granddaughters, Elizabeth Gibson of Franklin, Martha Moss of Nashville, and Kate McCarroll of Richmond, Va.; great-grandsons, Michael Hennessee, Chase and Sean Moss; great-granddaughters, Annie Glenn, April Jackson and Allyson Gibson; step-granddaughter, Kim Moss; great-great-grandchildren, Tristan Glenn, Taylor and Carly Michelle Hennessee; brother, Dillard Goodwin of Lincoln Park, Mich.; several nieces and nephews.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. today at Christ United Methodist Church with Mark Carrigan officiating. Burial will follow at New Union Cemetery on Highway 30.

High Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Southern Standard

(McMinnville, Tenn.) Jan. 9, 2004