Mrs. Laura Ellen (Luttrell) Kelley, 93, housewife and widow of Albert Alonzo Kelley, died Saturday morning at Covington Nursing Home following a long illness. She was born in Tipton County on Nov. 8, 1879, to Mark and Amanda (Shankle) Luttrell. Rev. Harold Greer conducted funeral services at 4p.m. Sunday at Kelley’s Chapel Church where Mrs. …
Jan. 31, 1913 – Feb. 4, 2004 – Albert A. Kelley of Covington died at his residence. Mr. Kelley, 91, was a retired principal from Holmes School for 27 years, and taught for the Tipton County School System for 36 years. He graduated from Union University in Jackson in 1935. He held many positions in …
May 16, 1912 – Nov. 27, 2006) Aileen W. Kelley, 94, retired school teacher for Tipton County School System for 42 years, died November 27, 2006 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton. Funeral service will be at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. November 29 at Garland Baptist Church. Burial will be in Shiloh Cemetery. Mrs. Kelley was the widow …
William Jackson, 78, a former well-known and highly esteemed citizen of the Burlison vicinity, this county, but who for the past 20 years had been making his home at Locke, Shelby county, died Saturday midnight, after a month’s illness. His body was brought after his death to Maley’s funeral home, this city, where the funeral, …
1/31/1875 – 1/12/1970 Services for Mrs. Billings – Services for Mrs. Elnora Billings were at 2 p.m., Tuesday, at Kelley’s Chapel Church of God. Interment was in Shiloh Cemetery with Maley Funeral Home in charge. Mrs. Billings died at her home, Monday, at 4:30 p.m. She was 94 and the widow of William Henry Billings. …
(3/21/1857 -8/14/1910) The subject of this sketch was born March 21, 1857 in this Tipton, Co., Tenn., and lived here up to the time of his death. He was first married to Miss Darthula Josephine Wethington, to which union was born 7 children of which two boys Lafayette and Johnnie survive him. Both nice boys, possessing …
Mrs. Josephine Baskin, wife of Mr. William Baskin, aged about 45 years, died at her home in the Burlison neighborhood Tuesday morning, of pneumonia, and was buried the day following at Smyrna graveyard. She is survived by her husband and several children. (The Covington Leader, Thursday, January 31, 1918)
Oct. 25, 1977 – July 12, 1979 – Crash Claims Toddler’s Life – Jonathan Ray Baskins, 21 month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Baskins of Burlison, Tenn, died at 2:25 p.m. yesterday at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center of injuries received in a traffic accident. A Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesman said the child was …
The infant child of John Bailey, of Burlison, died Friday night and was buried at Smyrna on the following day. (The Covington Leader, Thursday, February 8, 1917)
October 26, 1984 – January 5, 2001 Services for Ryan Yarbro of Burlison were Sunday Afternoon in the chapel of Maley Yarbrough Funeral Home Inc. of Covington with Rev. Ron McMillian officiating. Interment was in Indian Creek Cemetery, near Brighton. The teenager died in the emergency room of Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton in Covington of injuries …
