Obituaries
Nashville, TN Obituaries
Local obituaries for Nashville, Davidson County TN. and the surrounding areas
Dr. Fitzgerald H. Jenkins, Jr.
May 4, 2025
Dr. Fitzgerald H. Jenkins, Jr. transitioned on Sunday, May 4, 2025. Please keep the Jenkins family in your thoughts and prayers.
Patricia Rucker
Jul 11, 2025
Patricia Rucker transitioned on Friday, July 11, 2025. Please keep the Rucker family in your thoughts and prayers. Complete service arrangements will be announced soon.
Darius Jerome Hamby
Jul 5, 2025
Darius Jermoe Hamby transitioned on Saturday, July 5, 2025. Please keep the Hamby family in your thoughts and prayers. Complete service arrangements will be announced soon.
Verla L. Todd
Jul 2, 2025
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing” (2 Tim. 4:7-8 NIV).
On July 2,...
Eloise Primm
Jul 2, 2025
Eloise Primm transitioned on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. Please keep the Primm family in your thoughts and prayers.
Harold Holder
Jul 2, 2025
Harold Lee Holder, Sr. was born on March 7,1956 to the late parents Evelyn M. Snowden Holder and Thomas Quarrell Holder. Harold was a proud graduate of Maplewood High School Class of 1976. As a young man he married Carolyn Fisher. His greatest love in life was being a Disc Jockey at a Radio Station. If you knew Harold, you...
Anna Christine Wilson
Jun 25, 2025
Anna Christine Wilson transitioned on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Please keep the Wilson family in your thoughts and prayers.
Marilyn Smith
Jun 23, 2025
On Monday, June 23, 2025, God called home one of His precious angels, Marilyn Rozene (Howse) Smith. Today we celebrate Marilyn and her homegoing. Marilyn was born to the late William and Cornelia Chiles Howse on July 18, 1943, the second of nine children. She was proceeded in death by her parents and two brothers William and Ronald. Marilyn was...
Michael Smith, Jr.
Jun 21, 2025
Michael Smith, Jr. transitioned on Saturday, June 21, 2025. Please keep the Smith family in your thoughts and prayers.
Robert Mitchell West
Jun 20, 2025
Robert Mitchell West son of the late Russell and Bessie Geneva West was born in Davidson County, TN on February 24, 1963. He departed this life on Friday, June 20, 2025. At an early age he professed his faith in Christ. He grew up in Davidson County and was educated in Davidson County Public School System. He graduated from Stratford...
Rae Ernestine Hudson Watkins
Jun 19, 2025
A SEASON OF FAMILY
Rae Ernestine Hudson was born on September 5, 1926 in Selma Alabama. She was the second daughter and the firstborn child of Benjamin Franklin Hudson and Rachel Tarrant Hudson. At six weeks of age she moved to Nashville, TN, due to her father acquiring a job with the National Baptist Sunday School Publishing Board. The relocation of...
Deacon William D. "Bill" Mason, Sr.
Jun 16, 2025
William D. “Bill” Mason, Sr., age 80, of Nashville, Tennessee, answered God’s call and entered eternal rest at home on Monday, June 16, 2025. A proud Marine, devoted husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, and man of deep faith, Bill leaves a legacy rooted in love, service, and unwavering dedication to the people and places he held dear. Bill was born...
Loretta Annette Shelton
Jun 13, 2025
Loretta Annette Belue – Shelton A.K.A Mimi was born March 4, 1940. She was born to the late Fred Belue and Willie Ezelle King – Belue. She departed this life on Friday, June 13, 2025, and she was the oldest of 3 girls.
Loretta attended grade school in St. Paul, Alabama, and from there, she attended High School at Trenholm High...
Betty Jean Hunter-Hoard
Jun 10, 2025
Betty Jean Hunter-Hoard entered this world on September 24, 1948, as the beloved daughter of the late Elder L.J. Hunter, Sr. and Mrs. Lucy Frances Hunter. On June 10, 2025, she peacefully transitioned from her earthly home to her heavenly reward.
Betty was a proud graduate of Pearl High School, Class of 1967, and pursued studies in Social Administration at Tennessee...
Dr. M. Ann Upton Blackshear
Jun 10, 2025
Margaret Ann Upton Blackshear was born on August 31, 1944, in Sweetwater, Tennessee, to Lex Upton, Jr. and Mildred Melton Upton. Known by her middle name, “Ann,” she was the second of eight children and the eldest daughter. In 1962, she graduated from High Point High School, where she was crowned homecoming queen her senior year. After graduating high school,...
Johnny West
Jun 5, 2025
Johnny West entered this earthly life on May 25, 1978. He departed this life on Thursday, June 5, 2025.He received his education at West End High School in Birmingham, Alabama. Johnny relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 1999, where he met Dominique.Johnny enjoyed spending time with family, playing video games, walking, and going to the lake.He was preceded in death by...
Herbert Larry Phillips, Jr.
Jun 5, 2025
Larry Jr transitioned on June 5, 2025. He was educated in public schools of Nashville, TN. He was employed as a construction worker before being put on disability in 2003. He loved to play video games, listen to music, was a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan, and loved to go fishing. Larry Jr loved food, especially fried chicken.
Survived by devoted father,...
Stacie Wright
May 31, 2025
Stacie Lynn Malone Wright was born December 11, 1973, in Indianapolis, Indiana to the late Silver Ruth Barksdale Malone and Pastor Cleytus D. Malone.
Stacie went home to be with the Lord on May 31, 2025. She was a graduate of Terre Haute North Vigo High School class of 1992 and went on to attend Indiana State University where she received...
Antonio "Tony" D. Owens
May 28, 2025
Antonio “Tony” Dewayne Owens was born July 14th 1969 in Nashville TN and was called home to be with the Lord on May 28th 2025. He was the beloved son of Johnny and Rhonda Yvonne Owens. He is preceded in death by grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard B. Fleming, Mrs. Sarah Owens and Samuel Gentry; uncles, Marvin, William, and Norman...
John L. Bell, Jr.
May 28, 2025
John Lewis Bell, Jr. transitioned on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, at the age of 90, after a brief period of declining health. He was one of the last of his generation in the Bell family, which originates in Cheatham County, near Kingston Springs, in a post-Emancipation community called Belltown. The family began to migrate into Nashville during the early twentieth...
