Tim Granstaff

December 28, 2019

55 year old Tim Granstaff of Alexandria passed away Thursday at Vanderbilt Hospital. He was a construction worker. The funeral will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Chapel of Anderson Funeral Home in Alexandria. Mark Stinnett and Mark Medley will officiate and burial will be in New Hope Cemetery. Visitation will be Saturday from 2-8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. until the service at 2 p.m. He was preceded in death by his parents, John Thomas Granstaff and Betty Jo Poston. Survivors include sisters, Tammie Hearn and Teresa Powell. Nephews, Tim and Shelly Hearn and Tyler Hearn. Holding a special place in Tim’s heart, Amanda Bilbrey and Chad Hunter. In lieu of flowers, Tim requested that donations be made to Chad’s Run. Anderson Funeral Home in Alexandria is in charge of the arrangements.

December 27, 2019

Ms. Sandra Gaile Tittsworth Jones, age 77, of McMinnville, TN, died Tuesday, December 24, 2019, at Alive Hospice in Murfreesboro, TN. She was born September 05, 1942, in Smithville, TN, retired from the accounts receivable department at the local Carrier plant, was a member of First United Methodist Church where she was active in the prayer shawl ministry. Ms. Jones was preceded in death by her parents Haskell and Maudelle Parker Tittsworth, sisters Ellen Faye Tittsworth Cantrell and Jane Tittsworth Rawls, and brother Billy Eugene Tittsworth.

Survivors include her children Troy A. (Chip) Jones, Jr. and wife Janet and Angela Gaile Jones Bandy and husband Jeff, grandchildren Hayden, Griffin, and Eli Jones, Ethan Bandy and wife Kelci, and Ellen Bandy, sister Betty Hale, and brother Brownie Tittsworth and wife Lillian.

A celebration of life memorial service will be conducted at 4:00 P.M. Sunday, December 29, 2019, at the Outreach Building of First United Methodist Church. Rev. John Purdue, Rev. Tommy Vann, and Rev. Adam Rush officiating. The family will receive friends Sunday from 2:00 P.M. until 4:00 P.M. at the Outreach Building of First United Methodist Church, 200 W. Main St., McMinnville, TN 37110.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Alive Hospice, 1629 Williams Drive, Murfreesboro, TN 37129.

Online condolences may be made at www.mcminnvillefuneralhome.com

McMinnville Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. 931-473-6606.

December 26, 2019

Mr. Elbert Wayne Parkerson, age 63, of Smithville, TN, passed away Tuesday, December 24, 2019.

Mr. Parkerson was born March 15, 1956 in Lebanon, TN, a son of the late Elbert Lee Parkerson and Elizabeth Ione Allen Parkerson. Mr. Parkerson worked construction and retired from Federal Mogul in Smithville, TN.

Mr. Parkerson is survived by Sister; Faye Parkerson Neville of Smithville, TN. Nieces; Tammy (Mitchell) Driver, and Lynda Neville. Nephew; Braxton Kane Bennett. Uncle; J.C. (Pat) Allen of Alexandria, TN. Aunts; Ruby Nell Parkerson of Smithville, TN, and Dean Allen of Dale Ridge, TN. Several cousins also survive.

Funeral Services for Mr. Parkerson are scheduled to be conducted from Avant Funeral Home in Alexandria, TN, on Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 2PM with Eld. Johnny Adcock and Eld. David Frazier officiating. Interment will follow in the New Hope Cemetery.

Visitation with the Parkerson family will be held at Avant Funeral Home on Friday from 11AM until 8PM and again on Saturday from 10AM until the time of the service at 2PM.

December 24, 2019

Herbert Ancil “Tom” Meadows, 70, of Smithville passed away Sunday, December 22, 2019 at Quality Care in Lebanon after a long battle with sickness and cancer.

He was born to his parents Hank and Flo Hinkle in Jellico, TN.

Tom was an Army Veteran and a retired construction engineer. His favorite thing to do was to spend time at the family cabin in Pine Knot, KY at Ryan’s Creek where he was raised.

In addition to his parents, he was proceeded in death by his sister and brother-in-law, Pam and Jerry Williams of Smithville.

He is survived by wife of 50 years, Barbara Meadows; sons, William (Angie) Meadows and Aaron Meadows; daughter, Brianna (Cory Ferrell) Meadows; grandchildren, Brandon (Kim) Rackley and Stephanie (Billy) Tiner; and great- grand daughters, Sophia and Serenity Tiner all of Smithville.

The family has respected Tom’s wishes of cremation. A private memorial service will be held at a later date.

December 18, 2019

Georgia Ann Little went home to be with the Lord on her 80th birthday on Saturday, December 14, 2019 in Smithville. She was born in Kokomo, IN to her parents, the late Raymond Earl and Bonnie bell Wilson Turner. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Leon Little; son, Ronald Wayne Ballard; 2 grandchildren, Peanut Scott and Jeffrey Pasley; sisters, Nancy Riley, Lou Ella James, Lou Anna Gibson; brothers, Ernie Turner, Walter Turner and Bobby Cummins. She was a retired shirt factory worker and a member of Lighthouse In Home Ministry. She leaves to cherish her memory, 2 daughters, Jacqueline (Tino) Moreno of Dugger, IN and Rexanna (Kevin) Neely of Smithville; son, Roger (Carolyn) Little of Kokomo, IN; grandchildren, Michael (Chanda) McDorman, Timothy (Allison) Secrest, Travis (Itzel) Bline, Jeremiah (Monique) Pasley, Tabatha (Deron) Batey, Jeff (Holly) Pasley, Matt (Kara) Neely, Erica (Ben) Goering, Ronald Wayne Ballard, II and Jamie Sparger; 28 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-granddaughter; daughter-in-law, Milissa Ballard; 3 brothers, Michael Turner, Ricky Turner and Johnny Turner; sister, Teresa Toy. The family has chosen a direct cremation and a Memorial Service celebrating her life will be held in the Spring, and the date and time will be announced later. If you wish to send flowers now instead of waiting until the service, you may have them sent to the funeral home or to Rexanna’s home. DeKalb Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.

December 18, 2019

Malcolm Rosswell Carnahan was born at home in Ramsey, Illinois, on April 15, 1937. He died at home in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 14, 2019.

He was the second of four sons born to Elizabeth Jane Spires Carnahan (1918-2000) and Charles Carrolton Carnahan (1911-1979). Their first-born, James Carrolton Carnahan, did not survive his birth, so Malcolm grew up as the oldest of three brothers, in Decatur, Illinois.

He graduated from Decatur High School in 1955 and from Eureka College in 1959 with a B.A. in sociology. That fall he entered Vanderbilt Divinity School and soon got involved in the Nashville Student Movement, participating in nonviolent training and the civil rights sit-ins in Nashville. In 1963 he graduated; married Joanna Webb Evins in Smithville, Tennessee; and entered the U.S. Army.

After serving in Vietnam in 1965-66, he was honorably discharged as a First Lieutenant; was ordained as a minister in The Disciples of Christ denomination; and accepted a position as Assistant Minister with Fourth United Church of Christ in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

That’s where the family lived when their daughter was born in 1968, months before they moved to Chicago, Illinois, where their son was born in 1972. There Malcolm worked for the Midwest Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D.) even after the family later moved an hour south to Stelle, Illinois.

In 1975 Malcolm resigned from H.U.D. to become President of The Stelle Group, the nonprofit philosophical organization that created the intentional community of Stelle in the middle of Illinois corn country. He remained the group’s president through its move to Dallas, Texas in 1982.

By 1988 it had become clear that the end had come for this group that Malcolm saw as his life’s calling. He’d lived its teachings for 20 years, and he valued its philosophy for the rest of his life.

The family moved to Virginia then, for Malcolm to work in business with some friends. In time he developed meaning for himself and others in that world by helping many small-business owners create an over-arching company which they cooperatively owned and ran. After moving to Nashville in 2001 to live nearer family, he managed the company’s growth until retirement.

In addition to his wife of 56 years, his family members are their children Elizabeth Ann Carnahan Carter with her husband Ryan, and Colin Joseph Carnahan with his wife D’Nelle; his grandchildren Benjamin Rex Carter, Loren Ann Carter, and Landon Evins Carnahan; Malcolm’s brothers Charles Carrolton Carnahan, Jr. with his wife Stella, and Bryden Keith Carnahan with his wife Carolyn; his sisters-in-law Jane Fancher Evins Leonard with her husband Rob, and Mary Adelaide Evins Overton with her husband Gaius; plus eleven nieces and nephews and their spouses and children, and many cousins.

A memorial service will be held at two o’clock on Saturday, December 28, 2019, First Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashville, 1808 Woodmont Boulevard.

Malcolm was respected and cherished by every person in his family and by friends in many spheres of life. His family sees those relationships as the gifts that best honor him. In lieu of flowers, the family welcomes stories about Malcolm’s life. There will be a basket at the service to hold written anecdotes anyone cares to share. Friends who find it meaningful to make other gifts in honor of Malcolm may wish to give them to causes that further values they saw him live.

Love-Cantrell Funeral Home is in charge of all arrangements.