Obituary Report for January 19, 2003
McMinnville resident and White County native Bessie Lee Swindell Passons, 96, died Jan. 16 at River Park Hospital after a one-week illness.
A school teacher and homemaker and a member of Blues Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church, she was the daughter of the late George W. and Amanda Katherine McCormack Swindell; and was preceded in death by her husband, Vernon Passons; four brothers and three sisters; and special friend, Gertrude Thomas of McMinnville.
She is survived by daughters and son-in-law, Frances and Joe Hobbs, and Verina Lance, all of McMinnville; son and daughter-in-law, Jimmy and Colene Passons of McMinnville; sister-in-law, May D. Swindell of Moscow; 13 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. today at Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home Chapel with Paul Tramel and Harry Green officiating. Burial will follow at Old Union Cemetery in White County. Visitation will be held from 8 a.m. until time of service today at Love-Cantrell & Cope.
Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Jan. 19, 2003