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Merry LeShane
Nov. 16, 2025
Merry Newton "Corky" Leshane passed away, at the age of 95, at her home in Memphis on November 16, 2025. She was preceded in death by her son Lee Willig, and mother, Winnie Pass Brumley. She is survived by her sister Donna Griffin and her nieces Michelle Stanford (Terry) and Tiffany Holman...
Elsie Maxine Black
Nov. 16, 2025
Elsie Maxine Black Obituary Mrs. Elsie Maxine Black passed away on November 16, 2025. She was born July 15, 1934, in New England, North Dakota, to Mr. Alfred Larson and Mrs. Myrtle Audus Larson. She was preceded in death by her husband, Hugh Elmer Black. She attended high school at Plainview...
Herbert Marvin Skaggs
Nov. 16, 2025
Herbert Marvin Skaggs Born November 21, 1931 - Died November 16, 2025 Herbert Marvin Skaggs, 93, of Memphis Tennessee died in Germantown, Tennessee on November 16, 2025. He was born in Memphis Tennessee in 1931 to Herbert and Essie Skaggs. He graduated from Treadwell High School, served in the...
Virginia Lee Kilgore
Nov. 15, 2025
Virginia Burmann Kilgore Virginia Kilgore died peacefully, Saturday, November 15, 2025. She was born on Christmas Eve, 1935 in St. Joseph, Missouri. She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph and Virginia Barmann and her 5 year old brother, Lawrence. Virginia attended 12 years of Parochial...
Cathryn Hoover Allen
Nov. 14, 2025
Cathryn “Cathy” Hoover Allen, 77, of Lakeland, Tennessee, entered the presence of her Lord and Savior on November 14, 2025. Born December 12, 1947, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, she grew up in Memphis and later made her home in Lakeland with her husband, Joe. She was preceded in death by her...
Richard Carter
Nov. 14, 2025
Richard Carlton Carter of Memphis, TN, passed away peacefully on November 14, 2025, at the age of 55. Born and raised in Memphis, TN, Richard was a lifelong Memphian who loved his city. He attended Central High School, later attending the University of Memphis. Following college, Richard spent...
Cleffie Berry
Nov. 14, 2025
Cleffie J. Berry, 92, of Bartlett, TN, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, November 14, 2025. Cleffie was born on January 20, 1933, to the late Houston Amon Yancey and Cassie Pearson Yancey in Oxford, AR. She was a devoted wife and mother and cherished her family above all, finding her...
Joyce Lynn Smith
Nov. 14, 2025
Joyce Lynn Smith, 83, of Bartlett, TN, passed away peacefully at her home Friday evening, November 14, 2025, after a brief illness and went immediately to be in the presence of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Born in Memphis on October 26, 1942, Joyce was raised in the midtown area of Memphis....
June Ellington Pretti
Nov. 14, 2025
June Ellington Pretti age 94 went to her heavenly home on November 14, 2025 June was born June 5, 1931 to Mary and Harry Ellington in Memphis Tennessee. She is preceded in death by her husband Thomas A. Pretti, her son Stephen T. Pretti, her daughter Michelle P. Dotter and two brothers, Billy and...
Alma Martin
Nov. 13, 2025
Alma Leticia Martin, 60, of Millington, Tennessee passed away on November 14, 2025. Arrangements have been entrusted to Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery, 5668 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee 38119 (901) 767-8930 "Where Memphis comes to remember, since 1924."
Meta Sue Woodall
Nov. 13, 2025
Sue Jones Woodall, 91, of Memphis passed away at Brookdale Dogwood Creek in Germantown on Thursday, November 13th. She was born in Little Rock on April 17, 1934, to Adrian Dale Jones, Jr., and Mary "Tommie" Boshears Jones. She moved to Memphis at an early age. She graduated from Sacred Heart...
Carolyn Rowe Ballo
Nov. 13, 2025
Carolyn Rowe Ballo peacefully passed away on Thursday, November 13, 2025. She was born April 6, 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee and was a proud, life-long Mid-Southerner. Carolyn attended Messick for kindergarten through twelfth grade and graduated from Memphis State University with a degree in...