Laura J. Clendenon, 76

Spencer resident and Van Buren County native Laura J. Clendenon, 76, died March 16 at White County Hospital after a one-week illness.

A homemaker and a member of the Methodist Church, she was the daughter of the late Will B. and Laura Josephine Mosley Hendley.

She is survived by daughters and sons-in-law, Laura Sue and Johnny Sherrell, Lillian Diana and Randy Young, all of Sparta; son, James William Clendenon of Spencer; sisters-in-law, Eula Mae Hale of Spencer and Vivian Clendenon of Manchester; grandchildren, Julie and David Allen of Sparta, Angela Barden of McMinnville, Mary Jo Hill, Laura May and David Stoll, Heather, April, Josh, Sara and Kala Forsythe, and Jerry Forsythe Jr.; great-grandchildren, Eric and Jon Allen, Kelsey Noel Barden, Victoria Sims, Raven, Jordan and Jacobs Spiveys, and David Stoll.

Services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Cummingsville Methodist Church with George Turke officiating. Burial will follow at Cummingsville Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 to 10 p.m. today and 8 a.m. until time of service Thursday at Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home.

Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) March 17, 2004