August 6, 2018
Mr. James Reuben Hale age 85 of McMinnville, TN, died Saturday, August 04, 2018, at St. Thomas Midtown Hospital in Nashville, TN. He was born September 11, 1932, in Smithville, TN, was a retired machinist with Ford Motor Company, a veteran with the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict, member of Ezel Masonic Lodge No. 381, Order of the Eastern Star Lodge No. 349, and Long Mountain The Baptist Church. Mr. Hale was preceded in death by parents Skiler and Cora Hathaway Hale, daughter Frances Hale, son Gary Hale, sister Willie Pauline Hale, and brothers Bernice Hale and Wilbert Hale.
Survivors include his daughter and son-in-law Barbara and Stuart Abramson, grandchildren Stacey, Shelby, and Ryan Abramson, great-grandchild Blake Abramson, and very special friend Janice Johnson. Other family members and friends also survive.
Funeral service will be at 3:00 P.M. Wednesday, August 08, 2018, in the McMinnville Funeral Home Chapel. Elder Tim Baker will officiate. Interment will follow at Whorton Springs Cemetery in Smithville, TN. Military grave rites will be conducted by American Legion Post 173 and V.F.W. Post 5064. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 11:00 A.M. until 8:00 P.M. and again Wednesday from 11:00 A.M. until 3:00 P.M. at the parlors of McMinnville Funeral Home. A masonic service will be conducted Tuesday evening at 7:00 P.M. at the funeral home by Ezel Masonic Lodge No. 381.
McMinnville Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.