Doug Cunningham
Services will be 3 p.m. Sunday at Troy First Baptist Church, with Dr. Vann Kissell officiating. Burial will follow at Zion Cemetery in the Cloverdale community.
Pallbearers will be Zach Bunch, Chance Cunningham, Jerry Grady, Greg Ferguson, Ron Jackson, John Bright, Japheth Cunningham and O’Neil Baker. Honorary pallbearers will be Jimmy Whitby and members of the former Hornbeak High School Class of 1957.
The family will receive friends 4-8 p.m. Saturday at the church.
White-Ranson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The family requests that memorials be made to the American Cancer Society through Hope Lodge of Nashville, 2008 Charlotte Ave., Nashville, TN 37203.
He was born Aug. 13, 1939, in Wynnburg, son of the late Charlie and Hazel (Carroll) Cunningham. He married the former Malinda Yates Oct. 6, 1991. She survives. He had been employed at the former Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Union City for 30 years and was a member of Crime Stoppers, Promise Keepers and the Obion County Central High School Rebel Booster clubs. He was an avid Rebel sports fan and was a member of Troy First Baptist Church.
He is also survived by two sons and his daughter-in-law, Shawn and Ann Cunningham of Greenville, S.C., and Britt Cunningham of Union City; his stepson and daughter-in-law, Mark and Donna London of Troy; two stepdaughters and his son-in-law, Julie Bunch of Dyersburg and Emily and Jacob Cross of Union City; eight grandchildren, Savannah London, Zach Bunch, Chance Cunningham, Summer London, McKenna Cunningham, Alex Cunningham, Jenna Cross and Logan Cross; four sisters and his brother-in-law, Anita Black of Orlando, Fla., Doris and Buddy Bright of Troy, Sandra Shaw of Union City and Vicky Parham of Jackson; and two brothers and his sister-in-law, Donald Cunningham of Albuquerque, N.M., and Larry and Regina Cunningham of Union City.
He was also preceded in death by his brother, Dale Cunningham.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.